Cruthers Collection of Women's Art

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Cruthers Collection of Women's Art is a collection of more than 700 artworks by Australian women, held at the University of Western Australia. It is the only public collection focused on women's art in Australia.

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The Cruthers Collection was founded in 2007 [1] following the donation by Sir James and Lady Sheila Cruthers of some 400 artworks and is named in recognition of their gift. [1] [2]

The collection includes artworks by Australian women artists from the 1890s to the present day, with Australian modernism, feminist and contemporary art being represented. There is a focus on "the artist and her work", where a portrait or self-portrait of an artist is supported by a non-portrait example of their work. [3]

As of May 2019 there were 700 works in the collection. [4]

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References

  1. Miller, Sarah; Cruthers Family; PICA; Festival of Perth (1995) (1995), In The Company of Women: 100 years of Australian women's art from the Cruthers Collection, Perth Institute for Contemporary Arts, ISBN   978-1-875386-24-6
  2. The University of Western Australia. "University Policy on Art Acquisition for the Cruthers Collection of Women's Art at the University of Western Australia". www.governance.uwa.edu.au. Retrieved 23 January 2020.
  3. 1 2 Price, Jenna (24 May 2019). "The art world angel, her son, the countess and the detective". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 23 January 2020.
  4. Weston, Gemma, ed. (2018), Remembering ARTEMIS : a Western Australian Women's Art Forum, UWA Publishing, ISBN   978-1-76080-015-4
  5. Weston, Gemma (2018), ARTEMIS: No second thoughts: Reflections on the Artemis Women's Art Forum: A project by the Cruthers Collection of Women's Art, Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, 1 September – 8 December 2018, Cruthers Collection of Women's Art at the University of Western Australia, ISBN   978-1-925793-02-4
  6. Catalogue summary provide some background on the Artemis group – Artemis Women's Art Forum collection of photographs, 1978, retrieved 13 February 2020
  7. Weston, Gemma (2017), Country & colony: Visions of Australia from the Cruthers Collection of Women's Art, Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, ISBN   978-1-876793-92-0
  8. Cruthers, John; Kinsella, Lee, eds. (2012), Into the light: The Cruthers Collection of Women's Art, UWA Publishing, ISBN   978-1-74258-485-0