Sybil Craig 'Vase of Flowers II' reproduction-print Signed: Lower right 'Charles Blackman'

Signed: Lower right 'Charles Blackman'

There is an absurd sadness to them

In Charles Blackman’s whimsical ‘Trumpeters’

Helen BRADBURY (1963 - )

Washed in red and pink

Sybil Craig 'Vase of Flowers II' reproduction-print Signed: Lower right 'Charles Blackman'Art historian Mary Eagle once described Australian modernist Sybil Craig as devastatingly direct and almost overwhelmingly vital. She was born a tomboy to affluent parents and in 1945, was the third woman ever to be appointed an official war artist, the first to paint women working in the munitions factories. As an official war artist, she produced bright, vivacious scenes of women at work grounded in her pedagogy under the esteemed Bernard Hall and