Kuringai Avenue
1943
Medium
oil on compositon board
Measurements
49.5 × 42.0 cm
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
The Joseph Brown Collection. Presented through the NGV Foundation by Dr Joseph Brown AO OBE, Honorary Life Benefactor, 2004
© Estate of Grace Cossington Smith
Gallery location
Gallery 20
Level 3, NGV Australia
About this work
The leafy street is typical of the garden suburb of Turramurra on the North Shore of Sydney, where the artist lived most of her life. In this work Grace Cossington Smith uses one of her favourite compositional devices, a straight path or road that begins at the bottom edge and runs up the canvas to disappear over a rise. The viewer looks up between a cathedral-like frame of tree trunks on the left, branches overhead and solid hedges on the right. For Cossington Smith, a devout Anglican Christian, the spiritual dimension to life was the ultimate meaning behind her art.
Artwork Details
Place/s of Execution
New South Wales
Inscription
inscribed in black paint l.l.: G. Cossingtom Smith . 43
inscribed in pencil l.r.: (...illeg.)
overinscribed on previous inscription in blue paint l.r.: Kuringai Avenue.
inscribed in black ballpoint pen on paper label on revrese u.l.: Kuringai Avenue / Grace Cossington Smith
inscribed in blue ballpoint pen on paper label on reverse u.l.: $325
inscribed in blue ballpoint pen on paper label on reverse u.c.l.: "KURINGAI AVENUE 1943 / BY GRACE COSSINGTON SMITH.
Accession Number
2004.220
Department
Australian Painting
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of The Vizard Foundation
Subjects (general)
Cityscapes Landscapes
Subjects (specific)
footpaths hedges New South Wales (state) roads suburbs Sydney (inhabited place) trees
Frame
Reproduction, 2012, based on the original frame for a Smith painting from 1947.