Peggie (or Peggy) Crombie (1901–1984) was an Australian modernist painter. She was a member of the

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Biography

Crombie was born in 1901 in Melbourne, Australia. In 1921 she studied art at Stott's Commercial Art Training Institute. From 1922 through 1928 she attended the National Gallery Art School in Melbourne, where she was taught by Lindsay Bernard Hall, William Beckwith McInnes and

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. Crombie exhibited her work with modernist groups in Melbourne, specifically ''The Embryos'', the ''1932 Group'', the ''New Art Club'', the ''Melbourne Society of Women Painters and Sculptors'', and the '' Victorian Artists Society''. Crombie died in 1984.

External links

images of Peggy Crombie's paintings
on MutualArt
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Crombie, Peggy 1901 births 1984 deaths 20th-century Australian women artists 20th-century Australian artists Painters from Melbourne National Gallery of Victoria Art School alumni Australian mid-20th century modern painters