BRUCE, Jana
Castle Hill Landscape c 1929

Oil on board
18 x 26  cm

inscribed on reverse (on original backing board) 'bought from an exhibition c1929 by Vi Collings, student at A Datillo Rubbo's Art School' and 'purchased for £1.11.6' Comments: Janna Bruce attended the Datillo Rubbo Art School and later studied in London in the late 1930s. She was a member of various Sydney artistic circles for several decades from the 1920s. She mixed with the artists who squatted at Elizabeth Bay House in the early 1930s including John Longstaff, Wallace Thornton and Wolfgang Cardimatis. She also travelled through China in the late 1940s before returning to Sydney to teach art at Wahroonga on the North Shore. She was the owner of Grace Cossington Smith's iconic painting The Sock Knitter which she gifted to the Art Gallery of NSW in 1974. Vi Collings, who owned this work by Bruce, was also a fellow artist. Janna Bruce's own work is rarely seen. This early oil shows her moving from an impressionist to a modernist style.

$ 1975 including GST

Enquire about this work >

< Back