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The Mill at Tidmarsh by English artist Dora Carrington, from Frances Spalding’s The Real and the Romantic: English Art Between the Two World Wars. Thames & Hudson

The best art books of 2022

A round up of some fascinating art tomes published this year, with a strong showing on women artists.
Dorrit Black, The Bridge, 1930. Oil on canvas on board, 60.0 x 81.0 cm. Bequest of the artist, 1951, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide.

How our art museums finally opened their eyes to Australian women artists

Dorrit Black, Grace Cossington Smith and Grace Crowley were some of many talented modernist women artists. But only with the advent of second wave feminism in the 1970s was their work properly acknowledged.

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