Grace Crowley

Grace Crowley

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name = Grace Crowley


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birth_name = Grace Adela Williams Crowley
birth_date = 28 May 1890
birth_place = Cobbadah, New South Wales
death_date = 21 April 1979
death_place = Manly, New South Wales
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occupation = Artist
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Grace Crowley (1890-1979) was an Australian artist, born at Forrest Lodge, Cobbadah, New South Wales.cite web |title= Crowley, Grace Adela Williams (1890 - 1979) |publisher= Australian Dictionary of Biography On-line Edition |url= http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A130602b.htm |accessdate= 2007-07-23 ] At about the age of 13 Crowley's parents sent one of her pen and ink drawings to the New Idea magazine and she won a prize, ] but her career as an artist was not wholeheartedly supported by her family.

Crowley studied in Paris in 1927 with the Cubist André Lhote,cite web |title= Grace Crowley - Being Modern|publisher= National Gallery of Australia |url= http://nga.gov.au/Crowley/ |accessdate= 2007-07-23] and took part in "Exhibition I" in 1939, the self-proclaimed first show of abstract art in Australia. Others in her circle included Ralph Balson, Dorrit Black, Rah Fizelle, Frank Hiner and Anne Dangar.

There was an exhibition of her work at the National Gallery of Australia in December 2006 to May 2007 called "Grace Crowley - Being modern". ]

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* [http://www.api-network.com/cgi-bin/reviews/jrbview.cgi?n=1865082414&issue=1 Helen Topliss ed, Earth Fire Water Air: Anne Dangar's Letters to Grace Crowley 1930-1951] Review by Jody Fitzhardinge, Curtin University, September 2001
* [http://www.artaustralia.com/article.asp?issue_id=175&article_id=71 Dorrit Black's Modern Art Centre (extract)] by Sarah Thomas, Art & Australia, Spring 2006.
* [http://www.australianart.com.au/artists.php?ID=108 Grace Crowely at Australian Art]

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NAME=Crowley, Grace
ALTERNATIVE NAMES=Crowley, Grace Adela Williams
SHORT DESCRIPTION= Artist
DATE OF BIRTH=28 May 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH= Cobbadah New South Wales
DATE OF DEATH= 21 April 1979
PLACE OF DEATH= Manly New South Wales


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