Daisy Mary Rossi b. 18 January 1879

  • Artist (Painter)
Daisy Mary Rossi was the first woman member of the Town Planning Board in Perth, WA. She made a number of interesting statements such as, "Why should Australia always be represented by dull colored bush, huge, unwieldy eucalypts? We should have more frequently artists who will rise up and say, "Australia shall be shown in riotous, beautiful, blatant coloring".

Citations

  • Caspersz, Evelyn M. (22 June 1924), 'Mrs. Darcy Temple Poole, artist’, Woman’s Budget.

  • Erickson, Dorothy (2000), 'Art and Design in Western Australia: Perth Technical College 1900-2000’, Perth, Western Australia.

  • Gooding, Janda (1987), 'Western Australian Art and Artists 1900-1950’, Art Gallery of Western Australia catalogue, Perth.

  • Matters (Mrs) and Leonard, W. (1913), 'Australians Who Count in London and Who Count in Western Australia’, London, England.

  • Oldham, Ray (1978), 'Daisy Rossi’, manuscript for Dictionary of Australian Artists, ed. Joan Kerr, Melbourne, Victoria.

  • Erickson, Dorothy (2005), 'Rossi, Daisy Mary (1879 – 1974)’, Melbourne, Vic : Australian Dictionary of Biography, Supplementary Volume, Melbourne University Press, pp 345-346.

See also

  • '(Heritage biography) ADD section 6: plate 233'.

Initial data sources

  • Heritage: The National Women's Art Book