Elaine Alys Haxton b. 26 September 1909

Also known as Elaine Haxton
  • Artist (Printmaker),
  • Artist (Painter),
  • Designer (Theatre / Film Designer)
Painter, printmaker and designer, Haxton worked through the 1930s as a commercial artist in both Sydney and London. In 1943 she won the Sulman Prize and in 1986 was awarded an AM for printmaking.

Citations

  • Coombes, Paul (1990), 'Elaine Haxton’, Double Bay, NSW.

  • Drysdale, Russell (1943), 'Elaine Haxton’, Sydney, NSW : in Australian Present Day Art, [(Smith Sydney Ure (ed.)].

  • Mendelssohn, Joanna (23 August 1999), 'Obituary. Elaine Haxton. Artist’, Age, (p. 7).

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

  • (1945), 'Present Day Art in Australia’, Sydney, NSW [Smith, Sydney Ure (ed.)].

  • Thomas, Daniel (2000), 'Elaine Haxton 1909-1999’, Art & Australia, (37/3), (March-May 2000), pp. 374-75 [Reprinted from the Australian, 15 July 1999].

  • (1 January 1941), Australia : National Journal.

  • Sayers, Andrew (1995), 'Haxton, Elaine Alys (1909-1999)’, Sydney, NSW : in Heritage [Kerr, Joan (ed.)].

  • Chapman, Barbara (curator & writer) (1982), 'Elaine Haxton: Printmaker’, Launceston, Tas : Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery (plus extra biog notes pp.19-29).

  • Drysdale, Russell (1943), 'Elaine Haxton’, Sydney, NSW : in Australian Present Day Art [Ure Smith, Sydney (ed.)].

  • (21 August 1948), 'Famous artist dresses windows’, Sydney, NSW : in Pix, pp 14-15.

  • (1 January 1941), Australia.

  • (1 January 1999), 'Elaine Haxton’. obituary Sydney Morning Herald, 8 July 1999, p.31

  • Elaine Haxton playing cards for P&O, Art and Design 1, Ure Smith, 1949, p.12 (illustrated)

See also

  • 'Section 6, plate 267', Heritage biography.

Initial data sources

  • Heritage with additions
  • Eva Breuer Art Dealer