Sybil Craig 'Vase of Flowers II' impressionism

Sybil Craig 'Vase of Flowers II' impressionismArt historian Mary Eagle once described Australian modernist Sybil Craig as devastatingly direct and almost overwhelmingly vital. She was born a tomboy to affluent parents and in 1945, was the third woman ever to be appointed an official war artist, the first to paint women working in the munitions factories. As an official war artist, she produced bright, vivacious scenes of women at work grounded in her pedagogy under the esteemed Bernard Hall and

Image Size: 65 x 51 cm

With a focus on Modern and Contemporary collectable Australian art

yet without portraying any sense of their true identity

Paper Dimensions: 33 x 44 cm

'The Blue Bay VII' 1987

'Crawling Vines' 1979

Dimensions: 68 x 60 cm

Hall presents a distorted portrait

campaigner and co-founder of the Manly Art Gallery & Museum

The paper margins are discoloured where the previous mount was located

Charles Blackman draws three friends: an owl

which derives from the ‘The Philosophy of Objects’ series