Lesbia Thorpe b. 1919

  • Artist (Printmaker),
  • Artist (Draughtsman),
  • Artist (Painter)
Thorpe was best known for her woodcuts and colour prints for which she won many prizes.

Citations

  • Lebovic, Josef (1995), '[special collectors’ list no. 54A, cats 38-40]’.

  • Maxwell, Helen (October 1996), 'Lesbia Thorpe Linocuts’, Canberra, ACT : australian Girls Own Gallery (aGOG) 5-23 October 1996 (and bib.), .

  • Grishin, Sasha (c.1994), 'Contemporary Australian printmaking : an interpretative history’, Roseville, East, N.S.W. : Distributed by Craftsman House.

  • McCulloch, Alan (1984), 'Encyclopedia of Australian Art’, Melbourne, Vic : Hutchinson of Australia (2nd edition).

  • Seidel, Brian (1965), 'Printmaking’, Melbourne, Vic : Longmans.

  • Thomas, Sarah (1995), 'Article on women printmakers’, Art & Australia.

  • Wood, Lilian (ed.) (1982), 'Directory of Australian printmakers 1982’, Melbourne, Vic : Print Council of Australia, (41-42).

  • (1955), 'Studio’, London, England, UK : (149/743).

  • Germaine, Max (1979), 'Artists and galleries of Australia and New Zealand’, Sydney, NSW : Lansdowne Editions.

  • Marshall, Alan (1944), 'People of the Dreamtime’, Cheshire : (Illustrations by Thorpe, Lesbia).

  • Rawson, G. (1944), 'The Cruise of the Roebuck’, Hawthorn Press : (Illustrations by Thorpe, Lesbia).

Initial data sources

  • Black and white artists