Edwin Russell Tanner b. 31 December 1920

  • Artist (Painter)
Painter and engineer, won a commemorative medal for painting at the 1956 Melbourne Olympic Games. Tanner also did preliminary work towards a MA degree in Philosophy at Monash in 1969.

Citations

  • Tanner, E. (July 1957), 'Professional Engineers’, The Professional Engineer, vol. 11, no. 7, .

  • Tanner, E. (June 1957), 'Professional Engineers’, The Professional Engineer, vol. 11, no. 6, .

  • Reid, B. (December 1971), 'Maker and Sign maker – some aspects of the art of Edwin Tanner’, Art & Australia, vol. 9, no. 3, .

  • Backhouse, S. (1988), 'Tasmanian Artists of the 20th century’, Hobart, Tasmania.

  • Bonython, K. (1970), 'Australian Painting 1960-1970’, Adelaide, South Australia: Rigby.

  • Campbell, J. (1983), 'Australian Watercolour Painters 1780-1980’, Adelaide, South Australia: Rigby.

  • Harwood, G. (1986), 'Edwin Tanner’, Art Bulletin of Tasmania, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart.

  • Horton, M. (1969), 'Present Day Art in Australia’, Sydney, New South Wales.

  • Horton, M. (1975), 'Australian Painters of the 70s’, Ure Smith.

See also

  • 'Engineers, 1954, o/c ill. Backhouse, p. 202'.

Initial data sources

  • Legacy data. Source 'unknown'