Alice Danciger b. 1 August 1914

Also known as A. R. McElwain
  • Artist (Painter),
  • Artist (Textile Artist / Fashion Designer),
  • Designer (Theatre / Film Designer)
A painter, theatre and fabric designer who worked with some of the most significant modernist artists in Australia.

Citations

  • Bellew, Peter (1945), 'Pioneering Ballet in Australia’, Sydney, New South Wales.

  • Germaine, Max (1991), 'A Dictionary of Women Artists of Australia’, Roseville East, New South Wales.

  • McPhee, John (1982), 'Australian Decorative Arts in the Australian National Gallery, Silk and Textile Printers: Drysdale’, Canberra, ACT.

  • Smith, Bernard (1953), 'A Catalogue of Oil Paintings in the National Art Gallery of NSW 1875-1952’, Sydney, New South Wales.

  • Smith, Ure (1947), 'A New Approach to Textile Designing by a Group of Australian Artists, catalogue 34’, Silk and Textile Printers Pty Ltd, Sydney, New South Wales.

  • Danciger, Alice (1985), 'Looking back to the Forties’, Art in Australia, Volume 23, Issue 1, p 87.

  • 'Silk and Textile Printers file’, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, (cited McPhee).

See also

  • 'section 9, plate 405'.

Initial data sources

  • Heritage with additions