Clarice Beckett', 2022.
About this Event
Join historian Dr Edith Ziegler who will speak about her book, The Worlds and Work of
Clarice Beckett, 2022 which is a biographical study of this important early Modernist painter.
Edith Ziegler will discuss Beckett’s family background, including her childhood, art
education, philosophical and spiritual influences, friendships, and contemporaries.
About the Book: Clarice Beckett was one of Australia’s most important early twentieth-
century modernist painters, excelling in portraiture, still-life and landscape. The
discovery of a trove of her artworks in 1971 has led to her remarkable talent and
evocative art being recognised afresh and greatly admired.
Clarice Beckett was self-effacing; she left no diaries or letters and was only occasionally
mentioned in the diaries of her friends. For an insight into her enigmatic genius, Edith
Ziegler focuses on Clarice’s family background, childhood; art education; philosophical,
spiritual and psychological enquiries and influences; friendships and contacts. The
reader is drawn into the world in which Clarice’s vision was formed and her talent
developed.
Dr Edith Ziegler is an Australian historian, Adjunct Senior Lecturer at the University of New England, writer, and long-term volunteer at the S.H. Ervin Art Gallery in Sydney.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Ngununggula, Southern Highlands Regional Gallery, 1 Art Gallery Lane, Bowral, Australia
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