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in 1934, but she had returned to Perth by 1939, working as a censor during World War II. She was divorced again in 1945 and the following year married
English-born Josiah Skinner, a builder and real estate agent who was also a collector of art and antiques. They met through the Workers' Art Guild.
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for its unwillingness to display Sid Nolan's paintings of
Western Australian wildflowers, stating "an artist of international reputation cannot be expected to be the butt of the casual misjudgments – or is it the deep-rooted and uninstructed prejudices? – of city councillors in the world's most
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Skinner and her husband "were hugely influential as tastemakers for, and supporters of, the
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Skinner and the gallery were involved in several controversies relating to her exhibitors' modernist art. In 1965, a nude painting by
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and others, but later fell out with Grey-Smith. She also staged exhibitions for nationally prominent artists like
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staged an exhibition of their collection in 2007, including multiple works by Sidney Nolan, Fred
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on 17 September 1979 at the age of 78. She was cremated with
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