National Gallery of Australia | Audio Tour | Grace Cossington Smith

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Audio guide to works from the NGA exhibition Grace Cossington Smith: A retrospective exhibition, shown at the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra 4 March – 13 June 2005

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  • Grace COSSINGTON SMITH, The sock knitter 1915

    22/11/2007 Duración: 47s

    Grace COSSINGTON SMITH, The sock knitter 1915, oil on canvas, 61.6 (h) x 50.7 (w) cm, Art Gallery of New South Wales Purchased 1960 © Art Gallery New South Wales

  • Grace COSSINGTON SMITH, Sea wave [also known as Sea] 1931

    22/11/2007 Duración: 56s

    Among Cossington Smith’s most remarkable paintings are those of the South Coast of New South Wales at Thirroul and Bulli. Undertaken after the death of her beloved mother, who had been ill for some time, they convey a mesmerising transcendent dimension. The brushmarks are immensely varied: square, angular, feathery and delicately stippled. These works are about continuity in nature and continuity of the spirit. In the waves of movement radiating outwards and the undercurrents of complex feeling, these works are intensely personal and spiritual.

  • Grace COSSINGTON SMITH, Dawn landing 1944

    22/11/2007 Duración: 01min

    Grace COSSINGTON SMITH, Dawn landing 1944, oil on pulpboard, 69.5 (h) x 54.3 (w) cm, Sir James and Lady Cruthers Collection, Perth

  • Grace COSSINGTON SMITH, Four panels for a screen: loquat tree, gum and wattle trees, waterfall, picnic in a gully 1929

    22/11/2007 Duración: 01min

    The panels of this magnificent screen depict subjects from the artist’s garden and surrounding bush landscape. Cossington Smith was especially pleased with the third panel. As she said in an interview with Alan Roberts: ‘There used to be a waterfall along there … called Lovers’ Leap … a lovely proper one … and I did a painting … with the length of the waterfall on the panel … I think it came off rather well; rocks and waterfall and the bush.’ This screen was commissioned by a collector in the United Kingdom who rejected it and acquired The gully instead. At the time the artist was disappointed and vowed never to do another commission. Many years later she was delighted when the work was acquired by the National Gallery of Australia.

  • Grace COSSINGTON SMITH, Still life with banksia 1947

    22/11/2007 Duración: 46s

    Grace COSSINGTON SMITH, Still life with banksia 1947, oil on composition board, 59.7 (h) x 44.5 (w) cm, Art Gallery of South Australia South Australian Government Grant 1954

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