Grace Cossington Smith
(Australia 1892–20 Dec 1984)
- Title
- Bonfire in the bush
- Year
- (circa 1937)
- Media category
- Painting
- Materials used
- oil on paperboard
- Dimensions
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44.7 x 36.5cm board; 59.9 x 47.6 x 3.8cm frame
- Signature & date
- Signed l.r. corner, black ink "G. Cossington Smith". Not dated.
- Credit
- Gift of Patrick White 1973
- Accession number
- 20.1973
- Copyright
- © Estate of Grace Cossington Smith
- Location
- 20th & 21st c Australian art
- Bibliography (10)
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'Amazing Grace: Thoughts inspired by the Grace Cossington Smith exhibition at the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra' by Virginia Spate, pg. 22-30., Art Monthly Australia Aug 2005, Aug 2005, 27.
Deborah Hart (South Africa; United Kingdom; Australia, b.1959) (Editor), Grace Cossington Smith, Canberra, 2005, 56 (colour illus.), 57, 104, 178.
'Patrick White, art patron' by Barry Pearce, pg. 27., Look Nov 2004, Nov 2004, 27.
Helen Verity Hewitt (Australia) (Author), Patrick White, painter, manqué: paintings, painters and their influence on his writing, Carlton, 2002, xi, following 48 (colour illus.), 49, 116-119, 151.
Drusilla Modjeska (Author), Stravinsky's lunch, Sydney, 1999, (colour illus.). plate no. 34
'Patrick White: painter manqué' by Helen Hewitt, pg. 61-70., Voices Winter 1997, Winter 1997, 68.
Patrick White (England; Australia, b.1912, d.1990) (Author), Patrick White's Choice, Sydney, Dec 1981. cat.no. 5
Robert Lindsay (Australia, b.1945) (Author), Aspects of Australian Art: Art Gallery of New South Wales travelling art exhibition 1976, Sydney, 1976, (illus.). cat.no. 32; not paginated
Macquarie Galleries (Australia, estab. 1925, closed 1993) (Author), Pioneer contemporaries: Roy de Maistre, Grace Cossington Smith, Roland Wakelin, Sydney, 1960. cat.no. 18; dated 1930
'Colourful characters from a shady past' by Alan Sisley, n.pag., Central Western Daily 29 Oct 2011, 29 Oct 2011, n.pag. (colour illus.). Article relates to the exhibition 'An expanded vision: Mary Turner collection' held at Orange Regional Gallery in 2011.
- Exhibition history (11)
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Pioneer contemporaries: Roy de Maistre, Grace Cossington Smith, Roland Wakelin, Macquarie Galleries, 23 Nov 1960–02 Dec 1960.
Aspects of Australian art: Art Gallery of New South Wales Travelling Art Exhibition 1976, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1976–1977.
Patrick White's Choice, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 22 Dec 1981–31 Jan 1982.
Images of Sydney and Environs 1850-1950 (1985), New South Wales House, Mar 1985–May 1985.
Australian icons: twenty artists from the collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 04 Aug 2000–03 Dec 2000.
Grace Cossington Smith: a retrospective exhibition (2005), National Gallery of Australia, 04 Mar 2005–13 Jun 2005.
Grace Cossington Smith: a retrospective exhibition (2005), Art Gallery of South Australia, 29 Jul 2005–09 Oct 2005.
Grace Cossington Smith: a retrospective exhibition (2005), Art Gallery of New South Wales, 29 Oct 2005–15 Jan 2006.
Grace Cossington Smith: a retrospective exhibition (2005), Queensland Art Gallery, 11 Feb 2006–30 Apr 2006.
An expanded vision: Mary Turner collection, Orange Regional Gallery, 27 Aug 2011–30 Oct 2011.
Patrick White: eye of the storm, State Library of New South Wales, 20 Aug 2012–28 Oct 2012.
