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- Place made
- Sablons, Isère, France
- Medium
- earthenware
- Dimensions
- 16.5 x 14.0 cm (diam.)
- Credit line
- Gift of Joan Beer, Frank Choate, Elizabeth H. Finnegan OAM, Theo S Maras AM OLJ, David McKee, Pam McKee, Diana McLaurin, Tom Pearce and John Phillips through the Art Gallery of South Australia Foundation Collectors Club 2013
- Accession number
- 20138C147A
- Signature and date
- Not signed. Not dated.
- Media category
- Ceramic
- Collection area
- Australian decorative arts and design
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Featuring an abstract design, this hand-thrown and decorated jug is an example of Anne Dangar’s passion for combining cubist ideas with everyday functional objects.
Anne Dangar was born in New South Wales in 1885, and from 1916 studied at the Sydney Art School, becoming close friends with artists Grace Crawley and Dorrit Black. The women shared an interest in the abstract principles of French cubist artist André Lhote, and in 1928 Black and Dangar studied with him in Paris.
From 1930 Dangar lived at Moly-Sabata, a commune of the French cubist artist and teacher, Albert Gleizes. Embracing country life, Dangar studied with local potters to learn traditional making methods.
The vessels she created were practical and useful objects and combined functionality with rhythmic, circular and spiral designs, inspired by prehistoric carvings and ancient pottery, as well as cubist ideas. Dangar wrote often to Dorrit Black and Grace Crowley, sharing information about techniques and providing educational resources for their students.
This jug was brought back to Australia by Dorrit Black after visiting Dangar at Moly-Sabata. It would later feature in Black’s painting Still life with jug and ladle, c.1935, which is also held in AGSA’s collection.
Ingrid Goetz, Assistant Curator of Decorative Arts & Design
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