Grace Cossington Smith

Grace Cossington Smith
AO OBE
Grace Cossington Smith, self-portrait, 1948, oil on cardboard, 39.5 x 30.7 cm, National Portrait Gallery.
Born(1892-04-20)20 April 1892
Neutral Bay, New South Wales, Australia
Died20 December 1984(1984-12-20) (aged 92)
Roseville, New South Wales
Known forPainting
AwardsOfficer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) (1973)
Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) (1983)

Grace Cossington Smith AO OBE (20 April 1892 – 20 December 1984) was an Australian artist and pioneer of modernist painting in Australia and was instrumental in introducing Post-Impressionism to her home country. Examples of her work are held by every major gallery in Australia.

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