Maggie Laubser

Italy, October 1920 to August 1921

Laubser travelled with Balwé to Italy in August/September 1920 and Otto Glore. Her brushwork and color choice became more expressive and less consistent with her earlier works, using angular features and colored shapes to both her landscape paintings and portraits. In 1947 she received the Oscar Award for painting from Die Vaderland, a newspaper. In 1948, membership of the South African Academy for Arts and Science was awarded to her and the poet Elisabeth Eybers. She continued painting and continued to evolve her style, and in 1959 she was presented with an honorary membership of the Academy of Art and Science. The South African Association of Arts honoured her with a medal in 1968, presented by Prof. A. L. Meiring.

Maggie Laubser died on 17 May 1973 at Altyd Lig. There was an unfinished canvas on her easel.

Major collections Maggie Laubser's works are included in a number of major collections: South African National Gallery, Cape Town Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg Pretoria Art Museum, Pretoria Durban Art Gallery, Durban A. C. White Gallery, Bloemfontein Hester Rupert Art Museum, Graaff-Reinet Rupert Museum, Stellenbosch William Humphreys Art Gallery, Kimberley Sanlam Art Collection, Cape Town