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January 28, 2012
My knowledge of Adelaide modernism is patchy, I regret to say.
According to the art historians Kathleen Sauerbier was one of the first artists to respond to the southern coastal area in the Fleurieu Peninsula in a Modernist style. Her landscapes, with their limited use of colour, fluid line-work and simplified forms, exemplify her influence on fellow Australian painter Horace Trenerry.
Kathleen Sauerbier, Ochre Cliffs and Gull Rock looking south from Maslin's Beach, 1935
As I I haven't read Jane Hylton''s The painted coast: Views of the Fleurieu Peninsula south of Adelaide I cannot put Sauerbier's Willunga work into this South Australian regional (Normanville, Second Valley, Port Willunga, Aldinga, Maslins, Victor Harbor, Goolwa, the Coorong) landscape tradition.
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