Anne Dangar (1 December 1885 – 4 September 1951) was an Australian painter and potter.

Life and training

Dangar was born in Kempsey, a town on the mid-north coast of

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, the daughter of Otho Orde Dangar, who was a member of the Legislative Assembly and Elizabeth Dangar. From 1906 Dangar studied art in Sydney with Horace Moore-Jones and then at the

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in Sydney. Dangar began teaching there in 1920, while also working at the book publishing company

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. In 1926, Dangar travelled to

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with her lifelong friend and correspondent

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and attended

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's Academy in

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and his summer school at

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. Dangar returned to Sydney in 1929, but found resistance in Sydney to the cubist-influenced style she had developed in France.Harding, Lesley, and Sue Cramer, eds. Cubism and Australian Art. No. 124. The Miegunyah Press, 2009.Adams, Bruce. Rustic Cubism: Anne Dangar and the Art Colony at Moly-Sabata. University of Chicago Press, 2004. Like her friends

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and

, Dangar was strongly influenced by the Modernist and Cubist art movements she was exposed to in Paris. Dangar travelled back to France in 1930 and joined , an artists' commune established by Albert Gleizes. Her letters to

reveal much about the difficulties with which Dangar supported herself and her art at this time. Dangar held an exhibition in 1932 at the Musée d'Annonay, in

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.Design and Art Australia Online. http://www.daao.org.au/bio/annie-garvin-dangar/events/? Accessed 8 February 2014 Dangar travelled to

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in 1939 and spent six months in

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working with and for, and learning from, local potters. However, political instability and the outbreak of

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caused her to cut the trip short and she was back in

in 1940. Dangar lived in Sablons throughout the war and decided to remain there after the war. Anne Dangar died of complications from a stroke at Moly-Sabata on 4 September 1951. She was buried at

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, across the river from Moly-Sabata.

Works

Dangar was commissioned in 1934 to create ''La Vierge et l'enfant Jesu'' irgin and infant Jesusfirst acquired by Cesar Geoffray and more recently by the

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The work has been identified as a good example of rustic cubism. Her work is represented in the collections of the National Gallery of Australia, Powerhouse Museum,

as well as in many state and regional galleries, and in the Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris.

Life and training

Works

See also

References

Further reading