Smith, Grace Cossington (1892-1984)

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Cossington Smith, Grace (1892-1984)
Field of activity
Artist; painter; Painting; Drawing; Black & white art
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SMITH, GRACE COSSINGTON (1892-1984), artist, was born on 20 April 1892 at Cossington, Neutral Bay, Sydney, second of five children of Ernest Smith, London-born crown solicitor, and his wife Grace, née Fisher, daughter of the rector and squire of Cossington, Leicestershire. Ernest Smith's brother was private chaplain to Queen Victoria at Osborne, Isle of Wight, his sister an Anglican nun. The close-knit Sydney family moved to Thornleigh; Grace's schooling until December 1909 at Abbotsleigh included art classes by Albert Collins and Alfred Coffey. Next year she began to study drawing in Sydney with Antonio Dattilo-Rubbo who had special classes for young ladies, and continued there two days a week when the family moved to Bowral in 1911. With her elder sister she sailed in March 1912 for two years in England, staying with an aunt at Winchester; she attended a few drawing classes there and some outdoor sketching classes at Speck, near Stettin, Germany, but the most lasting art influence was her memory of paintings by Watteau in Berlin.

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Grace Cossington Smith had her first solo exhibition in 1928, and her work was reproduced in Art in Australia. She painted landscapes, streetscapes, and native flowers as well as interior paintings. Between 1932 and 1977, she held eighteen solo exhibitions, and in 1973 the Art Gallery of New South Wales held a retrospective exhibition of her work.

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Painter, born in Neutral Bay, Sydney. A student of Dattilo Rubbo, Cossington Smith was quick to absorb modernist ideas and in 1915 exhibited "The Sock Knitter", described by Daniel Thomas as 'perhaps the first fully Post-Impressionist work painted in Australia'.

painter, was born at Neutral Bay, Sydney, second of the five children of Ernest Augustus Smith, a solicitor, and Grace, née Fisher, daughter of the rector and squire of Cossington, Leicestershire, who had studied music in Germany. Grace junior was a boarder at Miss Connolly's school at Point Piper, Sydney then attended Abbotsleigh, Wahroonga, where she was taught art by Albert Collins and Alfred Coffey. She was also encouraged by the headmistress, Marian Clarke, herself a ...

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  1. Grace Cossington Smith / [edited by] Deborah Hart
    Smith, Grace Cossington, 1892-1984
    [ Book : 2005 ]
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    Grace Cossington Smith / [edited by] Deborah Hart
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  2. Stravinsky's lunch / Drusilla Modjeska
    Modjeska, Drusilla
    [ Book, Audio book : 1999-2001 ]
    Languages: English, Undetermined
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  3. Grace Cossington Smith 1892-1984 : survey exhibition 1919-1971, Painters Gallery September 8-September 26 1987, Niagara Galleries October 7-October 24 1987
    Smith, Grace Cossington, 1892-1984
    [ Book : 1987 ]
    At 9 libraries
    Grace Cossington Smith 1892-1984 : survey exhibition 1919-1971, Painters Gallery September 8-September 26 1987, Niagara Galleries October 7-October 24 1987
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    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 40.858)

  4. The lacquer room, 1935-36 / Grace Cossington Smith
    Smith, Grace Cossington, 1892-1984
    [ Book : 1999 ]
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  5. Grace Cossington Smith / text by Joanna Gilmour
    Gilmour, Joanna, 1970-
    [ Book : 2009 ]
    At 7 libraries
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 31.946)

    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 31.946)

  6. [Grace Cossington Smith : Australasian Art & Artists File]
    Smith, Grace Cossington, 1892-1984
    [ Book ]
    At Nat Gall Aus Res
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    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 26.918)

  7. The Australian modernists, 1916-1942 / director, David Muir ; producer, Malcolm Otton
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    [ Video : 1978-1984 ]
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  8. Grace Cossington Smith : a restrospective exhibition : National Gallery of Australia, Canberra 4 March - 13 June 2005
    Smith, Grace Cossington, 1892-1984
    [ Book : 2005 ]
    At UQ Library
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  9. Grace Cossington Smith : education resource
    Smith, Grace Cossington, 1892-1984
    [ Book : 2005 ]
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  10. 15 slides 1915-62 / Grace Cossington-Smith
    Cossington-Smith, Grace, 1892-1984
    [ Art work : 1982 ]
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  1. Grace Cossington Smith / [edited by] Deborah Hart
    Smith, Grace Cossington, 1892-1984
    [ Book : 2005 ]
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    Grace Cossington Smith / [edited by] Deborah Hart
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    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 86.735)

  2. Stravinsky's lunch / Drusilla Modjeska
    Modjeska, Drusilla
    [ Book, Audio book : 1999-2001 ]
    Languages: English, Undetermined
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    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 69.273)

  3. Grace Cossington Smith 1892-1984 : survey exhibition 1919-1971, Painters Gallery September 8-September 26 1987, Niagara Galleries October 7-October 24 1987
    Smith, Grace Cossington, 1892-1984
    [ Book : 1987 ]
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    Grace Cossington Smith 1892-1984 : survey exhibition 1919-1971, Painters Gallery September 8-September 26 1987, Niagara Galleries October 7-October 24 1987
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    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 40.788)

  4. The lacquer room, 1935-36 / Grace Cossington Smith
    Smith, Grace Cossington, 1892-1984
    [ Book : 1999 ]
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    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 40.414)

  5. Grace Cossington Smith : a life : from drawings in the collection of the National Gallery of Australia / Daniel Thomas
    Thomas, Daniel, 1931-
    [ Book : 1993 ]
    At 80 libraries
    Grace Cossington Smith : a life : from drawings in the collection of the National Gallery of Australia / Daniel Thomas
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  6. Grace Cossington Smith / Bruce James
    James, Bruce
    Australian Painters of the Twentieth Century
    [ Book, Article : 1990-2000 ]
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  7. Grace Cossington Smith / Bruce James
    James, Bruce
    Australian Painters of the Twentieth Century
    [ Book, Article : 1990-2000 ]
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  8. Grace Cossington Smith : a painter ahead of her time / Diana Chase and Valerie Krantz; illustrated by Judy Kerdel
    Chase, Diana
    [ Book : 1993 ]
    At 33 libraries
    Grace Cossington Smith : a painter ahead of her time / Diana Chase and Valerie Krantz; illustrated by Judy Kerdel
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  9. Grace Cossington Smith / text by Joanna Gilmour
    Gilmour, Joanna, 1970-
    [ Book : 2009 ]
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  10. [Grace Cossington Smith : Australasian Art & Artists File]
    Smith, Grace Cossington, 1892-1984
    [ Book ]
    At Nat Gall Aus Res
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 27.681)

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  4. Beauty and the beast: 'Grace Cossington Smith'
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  2. Painting ghosts : Australian women artists in wartime / Catherine Speck
    Speck, Catherine
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  3. Modern Australian women : paintings & prints 1925-1945 / Jane Hylton &
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  4. Grace Cossington-Smith : a retrospective exhibition
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  1. Interview with Treania Smith / interviewer, James Gleeson
    Smith, Treania, 1901-1990
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  2. A thousand encores : the Ballet Russes in Australia
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  3. The Australian modernists 1916-1942
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  4. The Australian modernists
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  2. NEW MOVEMENT IN ART. Miss Grace Cossington Smith's Exhibition.
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  3. ART EXHIBITION. Grace Cossington Smith. VALUE OF LITERAL WORKS.
    The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954) Wednesday 21 July 1937 p 8 Article
    ... I ART EXHIBITION. Grace Cossington Smith. VALUE OF LITERAL WORKS. Miss Grace Cossington Smith has made herself known as an artist of adventurous temperament, who has Journeyed far outside strictly ... Miss Cossing- ton Smith, a change is also indicated; but In her case the direction of that change ... 425 words
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