Ethel Anderson b. 1883

Also known as Ethel Mason
  • Designer ,
  • Artist (Painter)
A well-travelled mural painter and writer, Ethel Anderson was considered one the most important supporters of modern art and its painters in the early part of the 20th century, thanks largely to the exhibitions she organised and the writing she did about it for numerous publications including Art in Australia and the Sydney Morning Herald.

Citations

  • Anderson, Ethel (1927), 'Certain things considered’, Home, January, ALSO: June, July 1927.

  • Anderson, Ethel (1924), 'Paul Gauguin’, Home, December.

  • Foott, Bethia (1960), 'Ethel Anderson’, Australian Quarterly, September.

  • Mitchell, Eleyne (1958), 'Ethel Anderson’, Sydney, NSW : Bulletin, 08-27.

  • Pringle, Douglas (1973), 'The Best of Ethel Anderson’, Sydney, NSW.

  • Rutledge, Martha, 'Ethel Anderson’, Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol. 13.

  • (1991), 'Fine Australian Paintings’, Sotheby’s catalogue, Sydney, NSW 11-24.

  • (1928), Home, June.

  • 'Anderson Family Papers’, manuscript, Mitchell Library, State Libray of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW.

  • Anderson, Ethel (1926), 'The work of R. de Mestre’, Home, July.

  • Foott, Bethia (1992), 'Ethel and the Governors’ General’, Sydney, NSW.

  • Anderson, Ethel (1928), 'Mr. Roi de Mestre’s art’, Undergrowth, Jul/Aug.

  • Anderson, Ethel (1928), 'Happy pictures’, Sydney Morning Herald, 08-11.

  • Anderson, Ethel (1928), 'Living Art: Mr. Roland Wakelin’s pictures’, Sydney Morning Herald, 09-08.

  • Anderson, Ethel (1928), 'Modern drawing’, Home, October.

  • Anderson, Ethel (1929), ''Modernism and the naturalists’,’, Australian Quaterly, vol. 1, March.

  • Anderson, Ethel (1929), 'Subject in art’, Art in Australia, 3rd Series, September, p 29.

  • Anderson, Ethel (1932), 'Modern art as a cure for Bolshevism’, Australian Quarterly, vol. 15, 09-14.

  • Anderson, Ethel (1932), 'The art of Thea Proctor’, Art in Australia, 3rd Series, April, p 43.

  • Anderson, Ethel (1932), 'From the unstill’d Cyclades’, Art in Australia, vol. 45, 3rd Series, August.

  • Anderson, Ethel (1940), 'A bouquet of women artists’, Art in Australia, 3rd Series, February, p 78.

See also

  • 'Heritage: section 9, plate 389'.

Initial data sources

  • Heritage: The National Women's Art Book