Cosmopolitan: Art from the 1930s in the University of Western Australia Art Collection and the Cruthers Collection of Women’s Art

Cosmopolitan: Art from the 1930s in the University of Western Australia Art Collection and the Cruthers Collection of Women’s Art

Publication details

Paperback, 24 x 20 cms, 200 gms, 45 pages, 35 image plates
ISBN 0781925793178

Author and/or Editor name/s

Sally Quin

Author and/or Editor bio/s

Sally Quin is Curator, the University of Western Australia Art Collection. She received her PhD from UWA in 2004, and her publications include Bauhaus on the Swan: Elise Blumann, an émigré artist in Western Australia, 1938-1948 (UWAP, 2015). She is currently writing a history of Western Australian modernism: art, architecture, design (with Annette Condello).

Year of publication

2019

Publisher

Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, UWA, Perth WA

Abstract

Cosmopolitan: Art from the 1930s in the University of Western Australia Art Collection and the Cruthers Collection of Women’s Art (both exhibition and small catalogue) highlighted the significant holdings of 1930s artworks, represented in two collections held at the University of Western Australia. The catalogue text attempts to elucidate key facets of Australian art of the 1930s through direct reference to artworks displayed in the exhibition (and illustrated in the publication). It pays particular attention to the ways in which modernism was disseminated in Australia; to the contribution of women artists not widely known, such as Yvonne Atkinson; and to the specificity of Perth as a location of modernism, as a counterpoint to discussion of activities in Melbourne and Sydney.