03 Painting, The Art Of The Nude, Janet Agnes Cumbrae Stewart, with footnotes #5

Janet Agnes Cumbrae Stewart, (1883 - 1960)

Blue Drape 1919 

Pastel on paper 

53.5 x 36cm

Private collection 

Her pastels are a curious mix of coy, girlish innocence and saccharine sensuality. In many of her pastels, Cumbrae Stewart has taken on the stereotype of the passive female nude and has attempted to rework it within her own sensibility… Virtually her entire oeuvre is devoted to the nude, and she was aware that her dainty, wanton pastels may have breached public taste, not only in subject but because their creator was a woman. She altered her hyphenated name, and exhibited and signed her name Cumbrae-Stewart, as countless women artists have done to 'protect' their sex from a judgemental public. More on this painting

Janet Agnes Cumbrae Stewart, (1883 - 1960)

By the Lakeside

Pastel

53.9 x 36.8 cm

Private collection

Janet Agnes Cumbrae Stewart (23 December 1883 – 8 September 1960) was an Australian painter. She spent the 1920s and 1930s painting in Britain, France and Italy. She was a member of the Melbourne Society of Women Painters and Sculptors.

Cumbrae-Stewart was born in Melbourne, Australia on 23 December 1883. From 1901 though 1907 Cumbrae-Stewart studied at the Melbourne National Gallery School, where she was taught by Lindsay Bernard Hall and Frederick McCubbin. From 1909 through 1919 she exhibited with the Victorian Artists Society. In 1922 she left Australia and spent the next decades painting and exhibiting in Europe.

Cumbrae-Stewart died 8 September 1960 in Melbourne. More on Cumbrae-Stewart

Janet Cumbrae Stewart

Self-portrait, c. 1911

National Library of Australia

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