Grace CROWLEY<br/> <em>Girl with goats</em> 1928 <!-- (recto) --><br /> oil on canvas<br /> 54.4 x 73.4 cm<br /> National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne<br /> Presented by the National Gallery Society of Victoria, 1967<br /> 1759-5<br /> © National Gallery of Victoria <!--5447-->
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Grace Crowley’s Girl with goats

With Beckett Rozentals, Curator of Australian Painting, Sculpture & Decorative Arts to 1980

Grace Crowley was pivotal in developing abstract art in Australia. After a trip to France, she was seduced by the modernism movement, shifting from a more conservative painting style toward the abstract approach seen in Girl with goats.

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