Anne Dangar
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Name
Anne Dangar
Other names
DANGAR, Annie Garvin
Culture
Australian | French
Gender
Female
Birth date
1 December 1885
Birth place
Kempsey, New South Wales, Australia View on map Close map
Death date
4 September 1951
Death Place
Moly-Sabata, France View on map Close map
Movements
France from 1928
Occupations
Artist (painter) | Ceramic artist | Decorative / design artist | Drawer | Potter | Printmaker
Summary
Worked: Australia (NSW), France. Stencils
NGA IRN
12145
Context
Australia
Biography
Anne Dangar
Anne Dangar was born in 1885 and studied painting at Julian Ashton's School in Sydney and between 1927 and 1928 at the Acadamie L'hote, in Paris. She re-visited Sydney from 1928 to 1930 but returned and settled permanently in France. Living in the commune which Albert Gleizes had established at Moly Sabata in 1927, Anne Dangar learnt pottery and in 1948 or 1949 she established her own workshop at Moly Sabata.
Just before the outbreak of the second World War, Anne Dangar spent six months in Morocco potting with local artisans.
A close friend of the painter Grace Crowley, most of Anne Dangar's ceramics in Australia were sent back to her as gifts. Shipments were made in 1932, 1935 and 1937, and work from the first shipment was exhibited and sold at Dorrit Black's Modern Art Centre in Margaret Street, Sydney.
Anne Dangar died at Moly Sabata in 1951.
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