Anne Dangar

Anne Dangar
Born	Anne Garvin Dangar 1 December 1885 Kempsey, New South Wales
Died	4 September 1951 France
Cause of death	Stroke
Occupation	Painter and potter

Anne Dangar (1 December 1885 – 4 September 1951) was an Australian painter and potter.

Dangar was born in Kempsey, a town on the mid-north coast of New South Wales, the daughter of Otho Orde Dangar, who was a member of the Legislative Assembly and Elizabeth Dangar. From 1906 Dangar studied art in Sydney with Horace Moore-Jones and then at Julian Ashton's Sydney Art School. Dangar began teaching there in 1920, while also working at the book publishing company Angus & Robertson.

In 1926, Dangar travelled to France with her lifelong friend and correspondent Grace Crowley and attended André Lhote's Academy in Paris and his summer school at Mirmande. Dangar returned to Sydney in 1929, but found resistance in Sydney to the cubist-influenced style she had developed in France. Like her friends Dorrit Black and Grace Crowley, Dangar was strongly influenced by the Modernist and Cubist art movements she was exposed to in Paris.

Dangar travelled back to France in 1930 and joined Moly-Sabata, an artists' commune established by Albert Gleizes. Her letters to Grace Crowley reveal much about the difficulties with which Dangar supported herself and her art at this time. Dangar held an exhibition in 1932 at the Musée d'Annonay, in Annonay. Dangar travelled to Morocco in 1939 and spent six months in Fez working with and for, and learning from, local potters. However, political instability and the outbreak of World War II caused her to cut the trip short and she was back in France in 1940.

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