illustrator and commercial artist, was the daughter of Mr and Mrs T.G. Sloane of Sydney and of Moorila Station, NSW. She trained in commercial art in Sydney with Albert Collins and worked under him at the Smith & Julius art studio, the commercial arm of Sydney Ure Smith’s enterprises, where she did illustrations for Home magazine, e.g. frontispiece September 1922. The caption to her photograph by Judith Fletcher in Home (December 1921) states:
This jolly-faced youngster is Bertha Sloane, pupil and assistant of Albert Collins. She has a facile pencil that designs half the graceful ladies and chubby babies that disport in the advertisements of our papers and magazines. Bertha’s a girl of the bush, and a horse and a track through the gum trees is all the amusement she asks of life.
She also drew the 1 October 1927 cover of The New Triad and, with Margot Finlayson, illustrated a limited edition collection of verses, Baby Ballads by Edyth, Lady Bavin (Sydney 1927).
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- Writers:
- Kerr, Joan
Note: Heritage biography.
- Date written:
- 1995
- Last updated:
- 2011
