Gladys Reynell b. 4 September 1881

Also known as Gladys Osborne
  • Artist (Printmaker),
  • Artist ,
  • Artist (Painter)
After studying painting under Margaret Preston, who she travelled with to Paris and London, she taught craft to shell-shocked soldiers. On returning to Australia she concentrated on pottery, which she later gave up when her husband contracted lead poisoning from the glazes.

Citations

  • Powerhouse Museum, ’89/577 Cup and saucer, earthenware, Gladys Reynell, Reynella Pottery, South Australia, 1922’, Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, NSW.

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  • Clearihan, Susan (1985), 'Half The Sky: An exhibition of works on paper by Australian women artists’, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide.

  • Cochrane, Grace (1992), 'The Crafts Movement in Australia’, Kensington.

  • Ioannou, Noris (1988), 'Gladys Reynell’, Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol. 11.

  • Thompson, Judith (1986), 'Crafts of South Australia’, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide.

  • Timms, Peter (1986), 'Australian Studio Pottery and China Painting’, Melbourne.

  • Osborne, Gladys (Reynell) (15 August 1935), 'Knowledge or feeling in art’, Art in Australia.

  • Osborne, Gladys (Reynell) (1936), 'Reynella pottery’, A Book of South Australia: Women in the First Hundred Years, Adelaide.

See also

  • 'ADD section 5, plate 296'.
  • 'Feeding the Calves, 1936, (ill. The Forerunner vii, May 1937)'.

Initial data sources

  • Heritage with additions