Peggy Crombie
(Australia 1901–1984)
- Title
- The clothes line
- Other titles:
- Washing St James roof
- Year
- (1932)
- Media category
- Materials used
- colour linocut on ivory wove paper
- Edition
- unknown
- Dimensions
-
23.1 x 14.5cm blockmark; 24.7 x 16.3cm sheet (irreg.)
- Signature & date
- Signed l.l., pencil "P CROMBIE". Not dated.
- Credit
- Purchased 1983
- Accession number
- 247.1983
- Location
- Not on display
- Further information
Peggie Crombie was born in Melbourne and studied art at school under Norah Gurdon; she later studied at Stott's Commercial Art Training Institute 1921, the National Gallery School, Melbourne 1922-28 under Bernard Hall and William McInnes and took classes with George Bell in the 1940s. She exhibited with the Victorian Artists' Society from 1927-59. In 1930 she exhibited with a group called 'The Embryos'; it included Constance Stokes, Herbert McClintock, William Constable and Eric Thake. She exhibited with Anne Montgomery, Sybil Craig and Jessie Mackintosh at the New Melbourne Art Club in the 1930s and held a joint exhibition of paintings and linocuts with Helen Ogilvie and Helen Boyd at Collins House, Melbourne in October 1932. Her linocuts were produced mainly in the early 1930s. She exhibited with the Melbourne Society of Women Painters and Sculptors 1948-76 and was a member until 1983.
Hendrik Kolenberg and Anne Ryan, 'Australian prints from the Gallery's collection', AGNSW, 1998
- Bibliography (3)
-
AJIOKA Chiaki (Japan) (Author), Connie Tornatore-Loong (Australia) (Author), Japan in Sydney: Professor Sadler & modernism, 1920-30s, Sydney, 2011, 32, 39 (colour illus.), 136. cat.no. 21; Collection National Gallery of Australia; titled 'Washing St James roof'
Roger Butler (Australia, b.1948) (Author), Printed images by Australian artists 1885-1955, Canberra, 2007, 192 (colour illus.). dated 1925; Collection of National Gallery of Australia
Hendrik Kolenberg (Netherlands; Australia) (Author), Anne Ryan (Australia) (Author), Australian prints from the Gallery's collection, Sydney, 1998, 66 (colour illus.). cat.no. 66
- Exhibition history (1)
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Australian prints from the Gallery's collection (1998-1999), Art Gallery of New South Wales, 06 Nov 1998–07 Feb 1999.
