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Dorrit Black was an Australian Modernist painter and printmaker, best known as a pioneer of Australian Modernism. A passionate advocate for modern art, she has devoted the rest of her life to teaching, promoting and practising modernism in Australia. She established the Centre for Modern Art in Sydney in 1931, Australia’s first gallery dedicated to modernism. It was also one of the first galleries in Australia to be founded by a woman. As an artist, Blake created linoleum reliefs in the 1930s, watercolours in the late 1930s, and then returned to oil painting.
She is known for her paintings of the Sydney Harbour Bridge, which were painted in various stages of construction. The painting we are showing today is the first Cubist landscape painting in Australia. The landscape was created at Balls Head Reserve, a nature reserve in Sydney, and captures side views of the bridge’s two unfinished curved arches, the harbour waters in the centre and the house in the foreground. Black captured a spirit of excitement and celebrated the enormous engineering progress made during the Great Depression, giving the Sydney community hope for the future.
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Art Gallery of South Australia
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