Celebrating the work of three pioneering artists who made distinguished contributions to the development of international modernism. All born in the late nineteenth century, American painter Georgia O’Keeffe and Australian artists Margaret Preston and Grace Cossington Smith came of age during the 1910s and ’20s, decades of great social and cultural transition. While they were…
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Even though they did not discuss their work with each other, North American artist Georgia O’Keeffe (1887–1986) and Australians Margaret Preston (1875–1963) and Grace Cossington Smith (1892–1984) shared a passionate curiosity for the natural world, and each worked within the emerging transcultural discourse of Modernism. Their respective early training in traditional representational techniques gave way…
Australian artist’s Margaret Preston and Grace Cossington Smith, like Georgia O’Keeffe in America, have long been recognised for their central role in the development of modern art in Australia. All three women were ambitious and steadfast in their pursuit of a modernism distinct from European traditions. Their works represent distinct modernist visions of the identity…
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