Abstract Saturday: Elisabeth Cummings

Cummings is an Australian artist born in 1934. She's been painting since the 1950s, quietly and with a small but devoted following. Now in her 70s, she lives an idyllic life in a kind of artists' community in the west of Sydney, while her work gets better than ever.

Elisabeth Cummings (b. 1934) Still Life with Jug 2004

Journey Through The Studio 2006.

Elisabeth Cummings (Australia 1934 – ) Black Sally reflections, Namadgi 1996 via. ("Black Sally" is the common name for the Eucalyptus stellulata.)

White Still Life 2013 Oil on Canvas 101x126cm via Kingstreetgallery.com

Untitled 6 via

This week on my drawing board

The Sunshine Launderama. New in my Etsy shop

Every few months I like to tackle something big and complicated. I enjoy painting on wood panels.

This week I'm also working on a commissioned painting for an Etsy client. Here's the sketch.

Abstract Saturday: Yvonne Audette

Born in 1930, Audette has been called Australia's greatest living abstract expressionist. Laboring in relative obscurity throughout the later 20th century, she finally gained the attention she deserved after a major book on her work was published in 2003: Yvonne Audette Paintings and Drawings 1949-2014 by Christopher Heathcote. Her early influence was Cezanne through her teacher John Passmore.

Il miracolo 1957-1958, oil on (composition board) (159.6 x 127.0 cm) via

Summer Morning

Yvonne Audette  Stormy Waters 1971-72 oil on composition board 86 x 101.5 cm

YVONNE AUDETTE Opera Numero Uno, 1967

Portrait by David Moore 1968 via The National Portrait Gallery

YVONNE AUDETTE Construction Site 1979 - 1980 Oil on composition board 86 x 102 cm via mossgreen gallery

Fortune magazine covers

Here's a nice flickr set by Unkee E. on flickr. Lots more at the link!

January 1958 Alan Fletcher

June 1957 Cover by Lio Lionni & Howard Low

November 1948 Hans Moller

May 1948 Cover by George Giusti

June, 1952 Cover by Walter Allner

This one from April 1953 by S. Neil Fujita is from the flickr stream of Leif Peng