Norah Simpson b. 1895

  • Artist (Painter)
Painter Norah Simpson studied under Dattilo Rubbo in Sydney before studying in London under Walter Sickert. While in Europe she collected books and photographs and viewed works by Cézanne, Gauguin, van Gogh, Matisse and Picasso and on her return to Sydney played an important role in providing first-hand information about Post-impressionism to young Sydney artists such as Grace Cossington Smith.
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Citations

  • 'National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT’.

  • Causey, Andrew and Thomson, Richard (1981), 'Harold Gilman, 1876-1919’, London, England: Arts Council of Great Britain.

  • Topliss, Helen (1996), 'Modernism and Feminism: Australian Women Artists 1900-1940,’, Sydney, NSW: Craftsman House.

  • Edwards, Deborah (2000), 'Norah Simpson’, Sydney, NSW: AGNSW, “Australian Art in the Art Gallery of New South Wales”, ed. by Pearce, Barry.

Initial data sources

  • National Gallery of Australia

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