(1885 – 1951)

Born in Kempsey, New South Wales, Anne Dangar was a modernist painter and potter who spent much of her life in southern France, from 1926. In France, Dangar immersed herself in the modernist movement and where she spent much of her life creating distinctive ceramic works that fused traditional French pottery techniques with Cubist aesthetics.

Recognised as one of Australia’s foremost Cubists, Anne Dangar moved to Sydney in her early twenties to study painting under Horace Moore-Jones, before continuing her studies—and later teaching—at Julian Ashton Art School. She then traveled to Europe to study under Cubist master André Lhôte in Paris, where she became deeply engaged with the French avant-garde. Following an invitation from Cubist Albert Gleizes, she settled at the Moly-Sabata artists’ colony in Sablons, France, where she further developed her practice while teaching art to local children.

During her time in Sablons, Dangar combined the formal principles of Cubism with traditional pottery techniques, producing ceramics characterised by geometric forms, abstract motifs, and a distinctive synthesis of modernist painting and craft.

Dangar’s works are represented in a number of national collections including the National Gallery of Australia, which held a major retrospective of her practice in 2025, the National Gallery of Victoria and the Queensland Gallery of Modern Art. Her world is also represented internationally within the Musée National d'Art Moderne in Paris.

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