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An image of The reader by Grace Cossington Smith

Grace Cossington Smith

(Australia 1892–20 Dec 1984)

Title
The reader
Year
1916
Media category
Painting
Materials used
oil on canvas
Dimensions

51.2 x 40.6cm stretcher; 67.0 x 56.8 x 7.0cm frame

Credit
Gift of Janna Bruce 1974
Accession number
22.1974
Copyright
© Estate of Grace Cossington Smith
Location
Not on display
Bibliography (9)

Jude Adams, Barbara Hall and Jennifer Barber, Project 21: Women's images of women 1977, Sydney, 1977. cat.no. 41; Collection of the Art Gallery of New South Wales

Mary Eagle, Australian Modern Painting Between the Wars 1914-1939, 'Light in Sydney', pg. 30-41, Sydney, 1989, 33.

Deborah Hart, Grace Cossington Smith 2005, 'A room of her own', pg. 11-25, Canberra, 2005, 12 (colour illus.), 53, 123, 174.

Bruce James, Grace Cossington Smith, 'Deliberate frightfulness', pg. 41-52, Sydney, 1990, 48, 49 (colour illus.), 161. plate no. 15

Martyn Lyons, A history of the book in Australia 1891-1945, 'Reading models and reading communities', pg. 370-388, St. Lucia, 2001, 377 (illus.).

Ursula Prunster (Curator), Australian painters; Seeing Cézanne 1998, Sydney, 1998, 31. cat.no. 36

Lynne Seear and Julie Ewington (Editors), Brought to light: Australian Art 1850-1965, 'A singular portrait. Grace Cossington Smith Portrait of a man', pg. 120-123, South Brisbane, 1998, 120.

Bernard William Smith and Terry Smith, Australian painting 1788-1990, 'Leviticus 1913-32', pg. 167-204, South Melbourne, 1991, 174.

Roland Wakelin, Art Gallery of New South Wales Quarterly Jan 1962, 'Post Impressionism in Sydney: Some personal recollections', pg. 91-95, Domain, Jan 1962, 92.

Exhibition history (5)

Thirty-seventh Annual Exhibition of the Royal Art Society of New South Wales (1916), Exhibition Gallery Department of Public Instruction, Sydney, Sep 1916 -

Project 21 - Womens images of women (1977), Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 15 Oct 1977–13 Nov 1977

Australian Painters Seeing Cézanne:

Australian icons: twenty artists from the collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 04 Aug 2000–03 Dec 2000

Grace Cossington Smith: a retrospective exhibition (2005):