Art for lunch: At home and abroad

Senior Curator Deborah Hart discusses the extraordinary work of Grace Cossington Smith and Stella Bowen.

Grace Cossington Smith was one of Australia’s most important and paradoxical artists; an artist who lived a relatively quiet, circumscribed life who was also the creator of iconic images and one of the most brilliant pioneering modernists of her generation.

Stella Bowen achieved some success in the US, but she is best-known in Australia for the works of art she completed as an official war artist in Britain in World War II, particularly those depicting the actions of the Bomber Command and the return of prisoners of war from Germany.

Venue: Australian galleries
Price: Free

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Image: Grace Cossington Smith, not titled (Rose) 1920’s. Purchased 1974