Eveline Winifred Syme b. 26 October 1888

Also known as Eveline Syme
  • Artist (Painter),
  • Artist (Printmaker),
  • Artist (Draughtsman)
A contemporary of many well known female Australian artists, Syme was an active member of a number of artistic associations. She was widely travelled and produced many linocuts and watercolours.

Citations

  • (June 1988), 'Eveline Syme (1888-1961)’, Melbourne, Vic : Jim Alexander Gallery catalogue, .

  • Syme, E.W. (September 1929), 'Claude Flight and his teaching’, The Recorder (Arts and Crafts Society of Victoria), .

  • Coppel, Stephen (December 1985), 'Claude Flight and his Australian pupils’, Print Collectors’ Quarterly 11/4, .

  • Coppel, Stephen (2002), 'Australian Dictionary of Biography’, Melbourne, Vic : Volume 16 (and bibliography), [Ritchie, J. (ed.)], Melbourne University Press.

  • Burke, Janine (1980), 'Australian Women Artists 1840-1940’, Collingwood, Vic.

  • Butler, Roger (1981), 'Melbourne Woodcuts and Linocuts of the 1920’s and 1930’s’, Ballarat, Vic : City of Ballaarat Fine Art Gallery catalogue and (with Chris Deutscher), A Survey of Australian Relief Prints 1900-1950, Deutscher Galleries catalogue, Melbourne, Vic., 1978.

  • Eagle, Mary; & Minchin, Jan (1981), 'The George Bell School’, Melbourne, Vic.

  • Gibbney, H.J.; & Smith, Ann G. (1987), 'A Biographical Register 1788-1939’, Canberra, ACT.

  • Moore, Felicity St John (1992), 'Classical Modernism: The George Bell Circle’, Melbourne, Vic : National Gallery of Victoria catalogue.

  • Peers, Juliet (1993), 'More Than Just Gumtrees’, Melbourne, Vic.

  • Butler, Roger; & Deutscher, Chris (1978), 'A Survey of Australian Relief Prints 1900-1950’, Melbourne, Vic : Deutscher Galleries catalogue.

  • Coppel, Stephen (1995), 'Linocuts of the Machine Age’, Aldershot, England, UK.

  • Syme, E.W. (1934), 'Women and art’, Melbourne, Vic : in Fraser, Frances; & Palmer, Nettie (eds) The Centenary Gift Book.

  • Burke, Janine (1993), 'The prints of Ethel Spowers and Eveline Syme’, Melbourne, Vic : Imprint, part 128/3 (winter 1993), part 2, 28/3 (spring 1993), pp 1-5.

  • McCulloch, Alan; & McCulloch, Susan (1994), 'Encyclopedia of Australian art’, St Leonards, NSW : Allen & Unwin (3rd revised edition).

See also

  • 'PORTRAIT: Barbara Brash, Eveline Syme c.1955, pen and ink, p.c.; Edith Alsop, Portrait of Eveline Syme 1932, University College, MU.'.
  • 'Section 6, plate 253'.

Initial data sources

  • Heritage: The National Women's Art Book