Anne Dangar

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Anne Dangar (1885–1951) was an Australian-born artist who was renowned for her innovative pottery designs which fused traditional techniques with modernist motifs. Dangar was trained in Sydney as a painter under Horace Moore-Jones and later at Julian Ashton’s School of Art, where she taught from 1920 with fellow artist and rumoured lover Grace Crowley. Dangar travelled to Paris, France with Crowley, studying at the Paris academy of French Cubist André Lhôte. Dangar briefly returned to Sydney, attempting to introduce the modernist ideas she had learnt in France but was met with resistance amongst her conservative colleagues. In 1930 Dangar returned to France where she would remain until she died in 1951. Upon her return to France, she joined the Moly-Sabata artists’ commune where she learnt the traditional skills of local village pottery. firstly at the Poterie Clovis Nicolas, in St Désirat, Ardèche, in 1930-31, and from 1932 under Jean-Marie Paquaud at the Poterie Bert, Roussillon, Isère. She also became an active art and craft teacher to the local village children. Despite her physical distance, Dangar played a pivotal role in the development of Sydney’s cultural and artistic landscape through her letters to Crowley. Dangar’s work is found in several collections in Australia and France including the Musée National d’Art Moderne, Paris.

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