Joan Kingsley-Strack b. 1892

Also known as Jeanne G. L. Commons
  • Artist (Painter)
Painter and decorative artist. Kingsley-Strack supported herself through her art, which included china-painting, after her divorce in the early 1940s. Her portraits of the Aboriginal stars of the film 'Jedda', painting on porcelain plaques, were entered in the 1954 Archibald Prize.
Tags: China painting

Citations

  • 'NSW Marriage Records : 1408/1917’.

  • 'NSW Birth Records : 33257/1892’.

  • Haskins, Victoria (2002), 'Turning Magpies into Canaries: the stories behind the Jedda Portraits’, World of Art and Antiques, 62nd edn., December 2001-June 2002, pp 98-101.

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