Alison Rehfisch b. 1900

Also known as Alison Baily Rehfisch, Alison Baily Green
  • Artist
Alison Rehfisch was deeply influenced by theosophy and spiritualism. Her tendency to mysticism found expression in the new Modernist vision to reveal the truths of nature such as rhythm, line, colour and mass thus revealing its dynamism. Cézanne, Braque, El Greco and Chagall provided inspirations for her portraits and still life compositions.

Citations

  • 'NSW Marriage records : 27375/1942’.

  • Thornton, Wallace (22 July 1958), ' Women Artists Hold First Exhibition’, Sydney Morning Herald, Sydney, NSW, [2], Cited by Paula Furby,PhD 1999, Flinders University, Adelaide, SA, 162.

  • (April 1977), 'Alison Rehfisch’, Important Women Artists catalogue, Melbourne, Vic., .

  • Power, Rachel (2002), 'Australian Dictionary of Biography’, Australian Dictionary of Biography, [16], Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, VIC, [pp 68-69].

  • Ambrus, Caroline (1984), 'The Ladies’ Picture Show’, Hale & Iremonger, Sydney, NSW.

  • Green, Annie Louisa, 'Recollections of a Pioneer’s Daughter 1866-1946’, Unpublished manscript, Unknown location.

  • McCulloch, Alan; & McCulloch, Susan (1994), 'The Encyclopedia of Australian Art’, St Leonards, NSW.

  • Power, Rachel (2002), 'Alison Rehfisch’, Beagle Press, Sydney, NSW.

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

  • (1976), 'Duncan and Rehfisch’, Macquarie Galleries catalogue, Sydney, NSW.

  • de Berg, Hazel (1975), 'Interview with Alison Rehfisch at Sydney’, National Library of Australia oral history collection, published in Geoffrey Dutton (ed.), 'Artists’ Portraits’, National Library of Australia, Canberra, ACT, 1992.

  • Haefliger, Paul (8 May 1946), 'Woman as an artist by our art critic’, Sydney Morning Herald, Sydney, NSW, [8].

  • Rehfisch, Alison (15 May 1939), 'Australian Artists in London’, Art and Australia, Sydney, NSW.

  • Power, Rachel (2001), 'Perhaps the Pick of the Bunch: Alison Rehfisch, Sydney Modernist (1900-1975)’, Women’s Art Register Bulletin ,[32 Spring], [pp.6-7].

  • Gleeson, James (6 December 1950), Sun, Sydney, NSW.

  • Rehfisch, Alison (2002), Unpublished manuscript, National Trust SH Ervin Gallery, Observatory Hill, The Rocks, Sydney, NSW.

See also

  • 'PORTRAIT: Alison Rehfisch (1900-1975), (Woman Dressing) n.d. (1936?), oil on canvas; signed l.l. 'Rehfisch'. Collection Elinor and Fred Wrobel, Sydney.'.
  • 'Heritage biography and section 4, plate 174.'.

Initial data sources

  • Heritage: The National Women's Art Book