Politically Incorrect: Clarice Beckett.
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Title
Politically Incorrect: Clarice Beckett.
Venues
Art Gallery Of South Australia. (6 August 1999 – 19 September 1999)
Bendigo Art Gallery (30 September 1999 – 31 October 1999)
Date
(1999)
Summary
Single-artist exhibition. Located: Australia
Country of context
Australia
Abstract
Clarice Beckett (1887-1935), forgotten for three decades after her death, is now recognised as one of the great and highly individual painters in Australia landscape tradition. Beckett's work tells a story of a bygone era, of Australia between the wars reflecting a more contemplative way of life. The exhibition has been curated by Rosalind Hollinrake, who led the reappraisal of Beckett's from the 1970s after finding a large number of paintings abandoned in a Victorian hayshed.
The 88 works in this exhibition are drawn from 49 public and private collections from around Australia and show the full spectrum of Beckett's oeuvre for the first time, highlighting her unusual choice of subject matter: motifs of modern life such as the motor car, tram and telegraph pole and fascination with atmospheric conditions.[Gallery media, 1999].