Clarice Zander

Urn in Window, c. 1950
oil on card
25.5 x18 cm (image); 31.5 x 24.5 cm (frame)

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Provenance
The Estate of Jocelyn Plate


Clarice Zander was an Australian-born curator and artist. After beginning her career as a commercial artist and illustrator, Zander moved to London in 1930 where she became gallery manager of Redfern Gallery, London, and Publicity Agent to the Royal Academy of Arts, London (1934-40). A pioneer of exhibiting and marketing modern art, Zander showed the first exhibition of modern art in Sydney at Blaxland Gallery in 1932. Zander also curated one of the first major exhibitions of British modern art in Australia, British Contemporary Art, Melbourne, in 1933.

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Clarice Zander was an Australian-born curator and artist. After beginning her career as a commercial artist and illustrator, Zander moved to London in 1930 where she became gallery manager of Redfern Gallery, London, and Publicity Agent to the Royal Academy of Arts, London (1934-40). A pioneer of exhibiting and marketing modern art, Zander showed the first exhibition of modern art in Sydney at Blaxland Gallery in 1932. Zander also curated one of the first major exhibitions of British modern art in Australia, British Contemporary Art, Melbourne, in 1933.