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The Sock Knitter

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The figure is pressed forward onto the picture plane. Tightly constructed. The creamy impasto paint of the backgrounds holds the picture together. The sitter then holds the background together. Like a jigsaw. She is the pattern maker. There are echoing triangles
433: 102:. The painting depicts a woman, believed to be the artist's sister, knitting a sock. It was the first work by Cossington Smith to be exhibited and has been "acclaimed as the first 404: 31: 264: 428: 358: 320: 443: 438: 176: 448: 397: 163: 133:"has come to symbolise Australian women’s contribution to the effort, which included knitting more than 1.3 million pairs of socks". 453: 390: 351: 278: 168: 137: 77: 126: 30: 344: 243: 423: 99: 41: 103: 303: 216: 258: 190: 182: 172: 158: 374: 328: 417: 95: 51: 69:
61.8 cm Γ— 51.2 cm (24.3 in Γ— 20.2 in)
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Grace Cossington Smith
1915
Art Gallery of New South Wales
Sydney
1915
Grace Cossington Smith
post-impressionist
National Gallery of Victoria
Art Gallery of New South Wales
"Smith, Grace Cossington (1892–1984)"
Australian Dictionary of Biography
Australian National University
ISBN
978-0-522-84459-7
ISSN
1833-7538
OCLC
70677943
"The Sock Knitter"
"Grace Cossington Smith's The Sock Knitter"
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link
"Follow the Flag: Australian Artists at War 1914 – 45"
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