Bessie Davidson, Lecture au jardin (detail), oil on wood. Courtesy: the artist and The Max and Nola Tegal Collection, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide.
Bendigo Art Gallery brings together more than 50 works that highlight Bessie Davidson’s modern French impressionist style of painting – with light filled domestic interiors, landscapes and portraits of women.
The gallery has invited her great niece, artist Sally Smart to create a new body of work responding to and developing upon the cultural legacy of Davidson as a pioneering female artist – firmly placing her work back into the story of Australian art history.
Exhibition opens: Saturday 21 March 2020
