Australian Art Association and the Contemporary Group, Sydney. At the Paris International Exhibition in 1937 she was awarded a silver medal.Influenced by other famous painters of the time like Cezanne as the greatest of the Moderns; Picasso as the greatest living Modern; and Matisse and Gaugin for their use of colour.Like Cezanne and Picasso, she tried to solve problems. She did not paint objects with borrowed techniques, whether old or new, Modernist or traditional.She was very well regarded in the 1910s and 20s for how well she could work within the earlier tradition, then she was an innovator as a Modernist. Then in the later 30s and particularly right through the 40s she came to gradually learn more and more about Aboriginal culture.She died in Sydney, 28th May 1963....
