Victoria’s Heide Museum of Modern Art and the Art Gallery of New South Wales have partnered with the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, to present O’Keeffe’s paintings alongside the work of Australian artists Margaret Preston and Grace Cossington Smith, drawing attention to forward thinking beyond the wellspring of Europe. Together their works picture the advent of modernism and the innovation it represented in approaches to light, colour and form. The show promises to be rich in representation and history, with 30 works on view from each artist.
Heide Museum of Modern Art
Until 19 February, 2017
Melbourne
Grace Cossington Smith, Trees, c.1927, oil on plywood, 91.5 x 74.3cm
Newcastle Art Gallery, purchased with assistance from the Art Gallery and Conservatorium Committee 1967
© Estate of Grace Cossington Smith. Courtesy Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne
