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Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2010




Grace Cossington Smith OBE (1892–1984) was a pioneer of modernist art in Australia.
1 portrait in the collection

Recorded 1965



Purchased 2002

Grace Carroll contemplates the curious case of Christian Waller.


The National Portrait Gallery acquired the self-portrait by Grace Cossington Smith in 2003.

Grace Carroll discusses the portrait of the late-eighteenth century gentleman pickpocket George Barrington.

Grace Carroll on the gendered world of the Wentworths.

Close contemporaries, Thea Proctor, Margaret Preston and Grace Cossington Smith were frequently sources of inspiration and irritation to each other.



Gift of Mrs SM Asplin 2011



Gift of Mrs SM Asplin 2011
