Title Modern Australian women : paintings & prints 1925-1945 / Jane Hylton

Edition Repr. with corrections Published Adelaide, S. Aust. : Art Gallery of South Australia, [2000] Adelaide, S. Aust. : Art Gallery of South Australia, 2000 ©2000

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Description 143 pages : colour illustrations ; 30 cm Contents Modern Australian women -- Paris and London: the call of study and life abroad -- Coming home: the influences on Australian modernism -- Individual streams: Margaret Preston, Thea Proctor, Grace Cossington Smith, Clarice Beckett -- A shift of emphasis -- The revival of appreciation of early 20th century women's art -- Checklist -- Artists' biographies Summary In the mid-1920s when Australian art was beginning to atrophy into clichéd conservative landscapes, it was saved by women, who injected vitality and a new approach to style and subject matter.Artists such as Margaret Preston, Thea Proctor, Grace Crowley, Dorrit Black and Ethel Spowers were the pioneers and promoters of modernism in Australia, exploring new ideas about what art could portray and introducing artistic developments such as Cubism. Their paintings and prints challenged other artists and certainly challenged Australian audiences.Many of these 'modern' women led adventurous and unconventional lives. They travelled and studied in Europe. Many were financially independent and did not need to conform to the requirements of a (largely male) conventional and conservative art-buying public. Most chose to remain unmarried and childless so as to devote themselves to their art.Modern Australian Women: paintings and prints 1925-1945 is a major exhibition focussing on Australia's great women artists of the modernist period. It includes important and iconic works by the well-known names of Australian art history - Margaret Preston, Grace Crowley, Grace Cossington Smith - as well as works by artists such as Clarice Beckett and Stella Bowen who have only recently begun to receive the attention they deserve.Modern Australian Women: paintings and prints 1925-1945 is an Art Gallery of South Australia Travelling Exhibition. This exhibition is supported by Marsh, the Australian Women's Weekly and Visions of Australia Analysis Bryans, Lina Crowley, Grace Painting, Australian - 20th century Smith, Grace Cossington Women painters - Australia Notes An Art Gallery of South Australia Travelling Exhibition Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Art Gallery of South Australia, 24 November 2000-25 February 2001 Exhibition also held: National Gallery of Australia, 13 July - 26 August 2001 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 141-143) Subject Art, Australian -- 20th century -- Exhibitions. Modernism (Art) -- Australia -- Exhibitions. Painting, Australian -- 20th century -- Exhibitions. Painting, Modern -- 20th century -- Australia. Painting, Modern -- 20th century -- Australia -- Exhibitions. Prints, Australian -- 20th century -- Exhibitions. Prints, Australian -- 20th century -- Exhibitions. Women artists -- Australia -- Exhibitions. Women painters -- Australia -- Exhibitions. Women painters -- Australia. Genre/Form Exhibition catalogs. Author Hylton, Jane, 1950- Coming home : the influence on Australian modernism Hylton, Jane, 1950- Individual streams : Margaret Preston, Thea Proctor, Grace Cossington Smith, Clarice Beckett Hylton, Jane, 1950- Modern Australian women Hylton, Jane, 1950- Paris and London : the call of study and life abroad Hylton, Jane, 1950- Shift of emphasis Radford, Iain. Revival of appreciation : of early 20th century women's art Art Gallery of South Australia, host institution National Gallery of Australia, host institution LC no. 2002416131 ISBN 0730830284 (paperback) 0730830365 (hbk.) (paperback)

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