{"id":12044,"date":"2014-08-24T14:16:25","date_gmt":"2014-08-24T12:16:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/?p=12044"},"modified":"2026-01-10T10:10:40","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T08:10:40","slug":"grace-crowley-abstract-painting-1947","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/grace-crowley-abstract-painting-1947\/","title":{"rendered":"Grace Crowley &#8216;Abstract painting&#8217; 1947"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/r60PcYJEiXo?rel=0\" width=\"780\" height=\"450\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<em>Video and text \u00a9 National Gallery of Australia, Canberra 2010.<\/em><\/p>\n<h2>Grace Crowley &#8211; Australian Artist and Modernist Painter<\/h2>\n<p>&#8216;Grace Crowley (1890 &#8211; 1979), also known as \u2018Smudge\u2019, is believed to have been in a relationship with Anna Dangar between about 1915 and 1929. Anna Dangar studied and then taught at Julian Ashton\u2019s Sydney Art School, at the same time as Grace Crowley. The two went to France together in 1926 where they studied painting for several years, including at the influential cubist school Acad\u00e9mie Lhote. [Anna] Dangar returned to Australia in 1928, Crowley in 1930. [Anna] Dangar travelled back to France in 1930 and settled at Albert Gleize\u2019s Art Colony, Moly-Sabata, in southern France where she immersed herself in pottery, for which she became most famous. She remained there for the rest of her life. (&#8230;)<br \/>\nGrace appears to have had short-lived artistic and\/or personal relationships in Sydney with Dorrit Black and Rah Fizelle, eventually settling into a lasting relationship with Ralph Balson. All of Grace\u2019s relationships were with artists, and the professional aspect was clearly important. (&#8230;)&#8217; \u2013 Out Here: Gay and Lesbian Perspectives VI, Chapter 9: Australian Lesbian Artists of the Early Twentieth Century by Peter Di Sciascio.<\/p>\n<p><em>[The copyright of the video above remains with the original holder and it is used here for the purpose of education, comparison and criticism only.]<\/em><\/p>\n<h2>Related Links<\/h2>\n<p>Grace Crowley: being modern, 23 December 2006 \u2013 6 May 2007 at National Gallery of Australia.<br \/>\nAnne Dangar at moly-sabata: tradition and innovation by the National Gallery of Australia<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Video and text \u00a9 National Gallery of Australia, Canberra 2010. Grace Crowley &#8211; Australian Artist and Modernist Painter &#8216;Grace Crowley (1890 &#8211; 1979), also known as \u2018Smudge\u2019, is believed to have been in a relationship with Anna Dangar between about 1915 and 1929. Anna Dangar studied and then taught at&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28346,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1704,449,19],"tags":[1681,844],"class_list":["post-12044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-20-century-artists","category-lesbian-art-herstory","category-painting","tag-anne-dangar","tag-grace-crawley"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12044"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29431,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12044\/revisions\/29431"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}