Earth, Fire, Water, Air: Anne Dangar's Letters to Grace Crowley, 1930-1951

by Helen Topliss

Summary

A beautiful and fascinating collection of letters written by Australian potter Anne Dangar to fellow artist Grace Crowley when Anne was living in an artist's center in France during 1930 to 1951. Dangar writes with a disingenuous, breathless enthusiasm on subjects ranging through painting, potting, Medieval and modern art, color and light and form, other artists, poverty, Celtic design, spiritual belief, clothes, cats, mysticism, the life of surrounding villages, her pupils, their work, her work, the seasons, vegetables, St. Augustine.