Gladys Mary Owen b. 1 July 1889

Also known as Gladys Owen
  • Artist (Textile Artist / Fashion Designer),
  • Artist (Printmaker),
  • Artist (Painter)
Painter and printmaker who led an active life exhibiting, travelling, writing, radio presenting and programming for the ABC ("Women's Session" Talks editor), public speaking and campaigning. Owen's art is widely represented in Australia.

Citations

  • 'NSW Death Records : 18971/1960’.

  • 'NSW Marriage Records : 12754/1932’.

  • 'NSW Birth Records : 19499/1889’.

  • (1941), 'Johns Notable Australians 1922’.

  • Ambrus, Caroline (1984), 'The Ladies’ Picture Show’, Sydney, NSW.

  • Campbell, Jean (1983), 'Australian Watercolour Painters 1780-1980’, Adelaide, SA.

  • Draffin, Nicholas (1976), 'Australian Woodcuts and Linocuts of the 1920s and 1930s’, South Melbourne, Vic.

  • Flower, Cedric (1986), 'John Drummond Moore’, Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol.10, pages 566-567, Melbourne University Press, Vic.

    http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/moore-john-drummond-7638

  • McCulloch, Alan & McCulloch, Susan (1994), 'The Encyclopedia of Australian Art’, St Leonards, NSW.

  • Owen, Gladys (1933), 'Women’s sessions’, Wireless Weekly, 04-24.

  • Rutledge, Martha (1988), 'William Owen and Langer Owen’, Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol.11, pages 113-115, Melbourne University Press, Vic.

  • Philp, Angela (1988), 'The Society of Women Painters 1910-1934’, MA (Hons) thesis, University of Sydney, NSW.

  • ABC Radio Document Archives, Sydney, NSW.

  • Butler, Roger (1995), 'Sydney by Design’, National Gallery of Australia catalogue, Canberra.

  • (1930), Daily Telegraph, 04-11.

  • (1930), Sydney Morning Herald, 04-11.

  • (1930), Herald (Melbourne), 04-07.

Initial data sources

  • Heritage with additions