Talk:Grace Cossington Smith

Grace Cossington Smith 1892-1984

Grace Cossington Smith was born in Sydney on 22 April 1892. She studied with Dattilo Rubbo at the Royal Art Society of New South Wales in 1910 and attended drawing classes at the Winchester School of Art, England and at Stettin, Germany 1912-4. She returned to Sydney and to classes with Rubbo in 1914. Her work reflects her middle-class suburban life devoted to painting and depicting the environment about her. She was primarily concerned with form and colour, and with giving her images a spiritual quality. She portrayed flower pieces and sun drenched domestic settings, as well as landscapes, streetscapes, views of the Sydney Harbour Bridge and religious subjects. In 1938, following the death of her father, she moved from her garden studio to one inside the house, and began painting a series of intimate views of her room. Cossington Smith died on 10 December 1984, aged 91

She’s known by all three names (which is understandable, as "Grace Smith" is a touch unpreposessing). But when it comes to working out what her surname is, we need to be guided by major sources. ADB lists her as “Smith, Grace Cossington”. Her father’s name was Smith, and his wife Grace, née Fisher, was the daughter of the rector and squire of Cossington, which Grace jr. was given as a middle name. ADB never refers to her as if her surname were “Cossington Smith” - just “Smith”. And there’s no hyphen anywhere.

If we refer to her by surname, I believe it should be plain old “Smith”, not “Cossington Smith”. -- JackofOz (talk) 06:10, 16 July 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia gives the persons name in the painting as Grace's sister "Madge", while http://australia.gov.au/about-australia/australian-story/grace-cossington-smith gives the name as "Charlotte, or Diddy, as she was known". I'd say this is a case of conflicting sources, but no inline citations means that finding the other source is difficult, especially because I'm out of internet data (Australia -.-) and thus can't stream the audio from http://www.nga.gov.au/Exhibition/cossingtonsmith/Detail.cfm?IRN=130902&BioArtistIRN=16350&

If anyone would mind going through the sources and clearing it up? I'll get around to it in a few weeks when my internet resets otherwise. Chrissd21 (talk) 04:21, 22 April 2012 (UTC)

:Actually Grace Cossington Smith is the Google image theme for today, so I'll delete the problematic sentence for now. Chrissd21 (talk) 04:22, 22 April 2012 (UTC)

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Odd phrase;

Her paintings of the Sydney Harbour Bridge as it was being built are some of the best painted at the turn of the century... for 1930? Even too late for “early 20C” I reckon. MBG02 (talk) 01:36, 16 September 2018 (UTC)