Bernice E. Edwell b. 11 May 1880

  • Artist ,
  • Artist (Printmaker),
  • Artist (Painter)
Miniaturist, craftworker and painter of small landscapes. She was a founding Council member of the New South Wales Society of Women Painters.

Citations

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

  • Brodie, I.M. (1925), 'An Australian miniaturist’, Australian Woman’s Mirror, February 17.

  • Farr, Muriel E. (1914), 'Miss Bernice Edwell’, Lone Hand, November 02.

  • Hammond, Victoria and Peers, Juliet (1992), '[A.M.E. Bale biography]’, Artmoves, in Completing the Picture: women artists and the Heidelberg era (2nd edition), p 36, Hawthorn East, Vic.

  • (1991), 'A History of the Society of Arts & Crafts of New South Wales 1906-1991’, McFarlane, Nonie and Mackinolty, Judy (eds.), The Society of Arts & Crafts of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW.

  • Souter, D.H. (1908), 'Some women artists – mainly of New South Wales’, Art and Architecture, September-October, Sydney, NSW.

  • de Torres, Alisa (1992), 'Australian and European Miniatures’, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW.

  • Walker, Henrietta C. (1 December 1917), 'The art of the miniaturist: Miss Bernice Edwell’, Lone Hand, Sydney, NSW.

  • (1929), 'A Dictionary of Contemporary British Artists’, Dolman, Bernard (ed.), reprint Woodbridge, England, UK, 1981.

  • de Torres, Alisa (1991), 'Bernice Edwell’, Australian Decorative Art,, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW.

See also

  • 'The Liberty Scarf (Self Portrait) c.1918, watercolour on ivory (National Gallery of Australia), ill. Heritage section 1, plate 40'.

Initial data sources

  • Heritage: The National Women's Art Book