Art Gallery of South Australia hosts Grace Crowley 'Being Modern"

Monday, 21 May 2007 01:58

Adelaide, Australia - Grace Crowley (1890-1979) was one of the great 'modern Australian women' whose pioneering paintings of the 1920s and 30s revitalized art in this country. This colourful exhibition of 55 works offers a fresh look at Crowley's art, presenting some of the artist's best- known Modernist portraits and landscapes, alongside her lesser-known but more adventurous geometric paintings from the 1940s to 60s.

These later works are among Crowley's finest and confirm the artist as an expert colourist and one of our most masterful abstractionists. Touring from the National Gallery of Australia, Being Modern introduces a new generation to this sophisticated, experimental artist who worked at the cutting-edge of modern art in Australia.

History of the Gallery

The Art Gallery of South Australia holds one of Australia’s finest art collections, housed in one of Adelaide’s most beautiful historic buildings. It is centrally located on leafy North Terrace between the South Australian Museum and the University of Adelaide, and has been an important cultural focus since its establishment in 1881, only forty-five years after the first European settlers arrived.

On exhibition 27 July - 28 October 2007. Visit Art Gallery of South Australia at : www.artgallery.sa.gov.au