Peggie Crombie
{{Short description|Australian modernist painter}}
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| caption = Peggie Crombie, painted by Sybil Craig, 1932
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| birth_date = {{Birth year|1901}}
| birth_place = Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
| death_date = {{Death year and age|1984|1901}}
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| nationality = Australian
| education = National Gallery Art School
| field = Painting
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Peggie (or Peggy) Crombie (1901–1984) was an Australian modernist painter. She was a member of the Melbourne Society of Women Painters and Sculptors.{{cite web|title=History|url=https://mswps.com.au/about/history/|website=Melbourne Society of Women Painters and Sculptors|accessdate=29 March 2018}}
Biography
Crombie was born in 1901 in Melbourne, Australia.{{cite web|title=Peggy Crombie 1901–1984|url=https://www.cbusartcollection.com.au/artists/?id=42|website=CBUS|publisher=Construction and Building Unions Superannuation fund|accessdate=29 March 2018}} In 1921 she studied art at Stott's Commercial Art Training Institute.{{cite web|title=Peggy Crombie|url=https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/247.1983/|website=Art Gallery of New South Wales|accessdate=29 March 2018}} 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 George Bell.
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.
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External links
- [https://www.mutualart.com/Artist/Peggy-Crombie/5F2ACC48479A9E64 images of Peggy Crombie's paintings] on MutualArt
- [http://search.slv.vic.gov.au/permalink/f/1cl35st/SLV_VOYAGER1077289 Peggy Crombie] [Australian art and artists file], State Library Victoria
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Category:20th-century Australian women artists
Category:Painters from Melbourne
Category:National Gallery of Victoria Art School alumni