Cruthers Collection of Women's Art

Cruthers Collection of Women's Art is a collection of more than 700 artworks by Australian women, held at the University of Western Australia. It is the only public collection focused on women's art in Australia.

The Cruthers Collection was founded in 2007[1] following the donation by Sir James and Lady Sheila Cruthers of some 400 artworks and is named in recognition of their gift.[1][2]

The collection includes artworks by Australian women artists from the 1890s to the present day, with Australian modernism, feminist and contemporary art being represented. There is a focus on "the artist and her work", where a portrait or self-portrait of an artist is supported by a non-portrait example of their work.[3]

As of May 2019 there were 700 works in the collection.[4]

  1. ^ Miller, Sarah; Cruthers Family; PICA; Festival of Perth (1995) (1995), In The Company of Women: 100 years of Australian women's art from the Cruthers Collection, Perth Institute for Contemporary Arts, ISBN 978-1-875386-24-6{{citation}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  2. ^ The University of Western Australia. "University Policy on Art Acquisition for the Cruthers Collection of Women's Art at the University of Western Australia". www.governance.uwa.edu.au. Archived from the original on 17 March 2015. Retrieved 23 January 2020.
  3. ^ Price, Jenna (24 May 2019). "The art world angel, her son, the countess and the detective". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 23 January 2020.