Clarice Marjoribanks Beckett was an Australian artist and a key member of the Australian tonalist movement. Seldom signing or dating her works, Beckett sold few paintings during her lifetime and, as with many female artists, her work was treated with critical disdain by her male counterparts.
克拉丽丝-马乔里班克斯-贝克特(Clarice Marjoribanks Beckett)是一位澳大利亚艺术家，也是澳大利亚色调主义运动的重要成员。贝克特很少在她的作品上签名或标注日期，她一生中只卖出过少量画作，和许多女性艺术家一样，她的作品受到了男性同行的批判和鄙夷。
Brought up in a family that enjoyed a cultured and comfortable lifestyle, Beckett, as the dutiful unmarried daughter, was unable to concentrate solely on her painting but was obliged to care for aging parents. She had no dedicated studio and, in the early mornings or late evenings, wheeled her easel, brushes, and canvases in a small cart around the shoreline or cliffs near her home in Beaumaris. It was this passion for realism—painting outdoors—that, in 1935, contributed to her death from pneumonia after being soaked in a rainstorm while painting near her home.
贝克特出生在一个文化程度高且氛围舒适的家庭，作为孝顺的未婚女儿，她无法完全专注于绘画，而是不得不照顾年迈的父母。她没有专门的画室，在清晨或深夜，她用小推车在她位于博马里斯的家附近的海岸线或悬崖上推着她的画架、画笔和画布。正是这种对现实主义的热情——坚持在户外绘画——导致她于1935年在家附近作画时淋了暴风雨后死于肺炎。
Her evocative subject matter includes foggy suburban streetscapes that are either punctuated by the verticals of electric light poles or pierced by acid yellow headlights, and smoky sunsets that glow with reflections into the bay.
她令人回味的主题包括雾蒙蒙的郊区街景，这些街景被垂直的电线杆打断，或者被刺眼的黄色车灯刺穿，还有烟雾缭绕的落日反射到海湾中的倒影。
Sandringham Beach is one of the artist’s later works where she used a stronger palette to define the structural elements of bathing boxes, bathers, horses and riders, shadows, ocean, and vegetation shimmering and dissolving in the sunlight. In this painting, she seemed to move away from the impressionistic realism of the earlier works to experiment with elements of Modernism, by reducing the scene to its basic forms.
《桑德灵厄姆海滩》是这位艺术家后期的作品，她使用了更强烈的色调来表现淋浴间、游泳者、马匹和骑手、阴影、海洋和在阳光下闪烁和消融的植被。在这幅画中，她似乎远离了早期作品中的印象派现实主义，而是实验性地使用了一些现代主义的元素，将场景简化成了其基本的形态。
We present today's painting thanks to the National Gallery of Australia. : )
感谢澳大利亚国家美术馆与我们分享今天的画作。:)
