Artist
Lucinda Turnbull
Lucinda Turnbull is an Australian Aboriginal Painting artist. 1 work is cataloged here, principally at Victoria and Albert Museum.
Lucinda Turnbull specialized in small, precise watercolors, often of everyday subjects like blooms in a vase. In 1937 she painted A Vase of Flowers in soft, fine strokes, letting the paper show through as part of the light. The quiet palette and careful composition fit the quiet interwar years when artists turned to modest subjects. See how the stems cast barely-there shadows on the tabletop, a detail that makes the scene feel held still in time. Next, tap into A Vase of Flowers to zoom into those tender petals and paper grain.
Works by Lucinda Turnbull
Collections represented
Museum
The Victoria and Albert Museum in the United Kingdom is the world's largest museum of applied arts, decorative arts and design, housing a permanent collection of over 2.8 million objects.