Annual Review 2017

ABOVE | Cody Hartley, Senior Director, Collections and Interpretation, Georgia O’Keeffe Museum at the Official Opening / Photograph: Mark Sherwood LEFT | A ‘Making Modernism’-inspired class reinvents the still life , experimenting with light, colour and form to depict Australian native flora in oils with Sunshine Coast-based artist Judith Sinnamon / Photograph: Brad Wagner With thirty works from each artist, ‘Making Modernism’ was presented in partnership with the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe, the Heide Museum of Modern Art in Melbourne, and the Art Gallery of New South Wales. The exhibition was supported by the Terra Foundation for American Art and the Gordon Darling Foundation. O’ KEEFFE , PRESTON, COSS INGTON SMI TH: MAKING MODERNI SM 1 1 MARCH – 1 1 JUNE 201 7 | QAG The iconic art of Georgia O’Keeffe, one of the most significant American painters of the twentieth century, was presented alongside modernist masterpieces by two of her Australian contemporaries, Margaret Preston and Grace Cossington Smith. Although not directly connected, these kindred spirits rejected the conventions of the past to forge new ways of picturing a changing world. O’Keeffe expressed the forms and lines of New Mexico, Preston articulated the primordial character of Australia’s unique native environment, and Cossington Smith painted glowing and intimate landscapes within reach of her home in Sydney’s outer suburbs. 2017 IN REVIEW 14 REVIEW / 2017