Clarice Beckett

Clarice Beckett(1887 - 1935) was an Australian artist.

She is recognised as one of Australia's most important modernist artists. Despite a talent for portraiture and a keen public appreciation for her still-lifes, Beckett preferred the solo, outdoor process of painting landscapes. She relentlessly painted sea and beachscapes, rural and suburban scenes, often enveloped in the atmospheric effects of early mornings or evening. Her subjects were often drawn from the Melbourne bayside suburb of Beaumauris, where she lived for most of her life, caring for her ailing parents during the day and spending time around dawn and dusk painting.

She has her works hanging in the National Gallery of Australia, National Gallery of Victoria and the Art Gallery of South Australia.