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639:, both brought to attention by well-regarded gallery curators. Summers considers a number of factors to be involved in Stokes' fate, including her association with George Bell, whose destruction of many of his early pictures, propensity to keep reworking his old pieces, and artistic conservatism, all limited his subsequent reputation. Summers also points to the lack of a high-profile champion of Stokes' work, and her Melburnian identity in a time when "Sydney was where the ideas and the experimentation were and the place where reputations were made". Historian Helen Topliss takes a slightly different view, emphasising that Stokes was "deflected" from her career by raising a family. 596:, describes Stokes as "a leading figure in the modernist movement in Victoria". Not all critics regard Stokes' work so favourably, however. Art historian Christopher Heathcote acknowledges the recognition of Stokes' work by her contemporaries, but goes on to say that "strong staff support for a few lesser practitioners, such as Constance Stokes ... hardly aided the appreciation of the better local work." Though she appears in McCulloch's guide, few other reviews of Australian art recognise Stokes. Exceptions, according to feminist writer 244: 361: 180:. Although Stokes painted few works in the 1930s, her paintings and drawings were exhibited from the 1940s onwards. She was one of only two women, and two Victorians, included in a major exhibition of twelve Australian artists that travelled to Canada, the United Kingdom and Italy in the early 1950s. 397:
Stokes' artistry endured, while that of some of her modernist colleagues did not. By 1945, when the Melbourne Contemporary Artists held one of their exhibitions, art critic Alan McCulloch observed that the works were increasingly lacking in originality and that the former standards of the group were
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came into favour. Partly as a reaction to this development, artist George Bell established an exhibiting group called the Melbourne Contemporary Artists in 1940. Bell was a former war artist and influential member of the Victorian artistic establishment, who after World War II was appointed to teach
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Eric Stokes died unexpectedly in 1962, an experience which left Constance bereft; a long-time friend said that she never really recovered. Faced with a substantial mortgage to service, Stokes returned to work: painting. Two years later, she opened her first one-woman show in over thirty years. It
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Her husband's early death in 1962 forced Stokes to return to painting as a career, resulting in a successful one-woman show in 1964, her first in thirty years. She continued to paint and exhibit through the 1970s and 1980s, and was the subject of a retrospective exhibition that toured Victorian
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he praised as "strongly designed and sensitively modelled". The following year, though, McCulloch was more upbeat, describing the show as their best to date, while again complementing Stokes on her "rich and opulent pictures". Six years later, when the group exhibited in 1952, the critic for
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Stokes returned from a European honeymoon in 1934, but she produced few works in the years immediately following. Although the Collins Street apartment had become a full-time studio for Stokes, only two paintings and two sketches from the period are known. The most notable is
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at the National Gallery of Victoria's painting school. Influenced by Bell, Stokes was among the artists for whom modernism was a strong influence, and who exhibited with the Melbourne Contemporary Artists. Other members of the group included
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is one of thirteen in the collection of the National Gallery of Victoria. Closely associated with Victoria, and in particular the cultural milieu of Melbourne, Stokes is well represented in the galleries of that state. These include the
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was as unimpressed as had been McCulloch in 1945. Suggesting that the show demonstrated that Melbourne's art scene lacked innovation, he nevertheless singled out a small number of works for praise. One of these was Stokes'
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member who announced the exhibition considered that it would represent the most substantial promotion Australian art would have experienced to that time. The following year, Joseph Burke, Professor of Fine Arts at the
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in Melbourne. Over the summer of 1925–1926 the Gallery held a competition for its students, who were asked to paint "holiday subjects"; Constance won the prize for a landscape. The competition was judged by artist
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While Stokes was being praised at home in Melbourne, one of her portraits was among six paintings owned by the National Gallery of Victoria that were loaned for an exhibition on the other side of the country, in
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in 1985. The next year, an exhibition of her work toured several state galleries and the S.H. Irvin gallery in Sydney. In 1992, her works were displayed in the National Gallery of Victoria's exhibition
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In the mid-twentieth century, there were divisions in the Melbourne art scene, which became intertwined with the complex cultural politics of the
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urged Prime Minister Menzies to intervene, members describing the paintings as "the worst ever gathered in one place". However, the
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in Paris in 1932. The following year she returned to Australia, where she married businessman Eric Stokes. The family settled in
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as the "best picture in London that week". Some artists in Sydney were not so impressed. A meeting of the
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in 1941 and later in Canada. In 1946, Stokes presented the work to the National Gallery of Victoria.
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is alone among the major Australian institutions in not holding any of her paintings or drawings.
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in 1985. She died in 1991 and is little-known in comparison to some other women artists including
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A retrospective exhibition of Stokes' paintings toured Victorian regional galleries including
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Stokes returned to some prominence through a book by Anne Summers, published in 2009, called
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Stokes in an interview also referred to her painting in the National Gallery of Victoria as
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in London. In addition to her education at the Royal Academy, she studied under the French
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is the only significant Australian collecting institution not to hold one of her works.
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being maintained by only a few members. One of those was Stokes, whose work
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In 1930, Stokes was among artists who exhibited at a Melbourne gallery, the
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is of the same painting that the National Gallery of Victoria refers to as
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comprised 43 works, with the 27 paintings priced dearly, at upwards of 150
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Religious subjects appear regularly in Stokes' paintings; one such work,
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drew critical attention and acclaim. Admired by the director of the
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until 1929, winning a scholarship to continue her study at London's
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Constance Parkin was born in 1906 in the hamlet of Miram, near
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Lindsay, Joan (1949). "Australian Art". In Ursula Hoff (ed.).
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Williams, Fred. "Bell, George Frederick Henry (1878–1966)".
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Modernism and Feminism: Australian Women Artists 1900–1940
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A Quiet Revolution: the Rise of Australian Art 1946–1968
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Summers, Anne (29 March 2014). "Portrait of a mystery".
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Most major Australian collections hold works by Stokes:
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Australian Women Artists. One Hundred Years 1840–1940
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Nhill, Victoria
Melbourne
Victoria
Royal Academy of Arts
National Gallery of Victoria Art School
Girl in Red Tights
modernist
Victoria
National Gallery of Victoria Art School
Royal Academy of Arts
George Bell
Philip Hendy
Bernard William Smith
Swan Hill Regional Art Gallery
Geelong Art Gallery
Grace Cossington Smith
Clarice Beckett
Anne Summers
National Gallery of Australia
National Gallery of Victoria
Art Gallery of New South Wales

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Victoria
Melbourne
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Kew
National Gallery of Victoria Art School

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