Sophie Steffanoni b. 1873

  • Artist (Textile Artist / Fashion Designer),
  • Artist (Painter)
Sophie Steffanoni was an embroiderer and painter, who, despite exhibiting much of her work and receiving recognition for it, died just as her career was advancing, aged thirty-two. She removed the artificial barrier between art and craft.

Citations

  • 'NSW Death Records : 14226/1906’.

  • Fullagar, Col (4 January 2000), 'Information re grave site’.

  • 'Family papers’.

  • Lister, Lister W. (1924), 'Letter to Miss Brewster of Sydney Girls’ High School’, 14 August, in connection with a proposed donation of a Steffanoni painting to the school, received October 1924.

  • Butterfield, Annette (1990), 'Sophie Steffanoni 1873-1906’, Lewers Bequest & Penrith RAG catalogue, Penrith.

  • Ingram, Terry (1990), 'Saleroom’, Australian Financial Review, 23 August.

  • (1903), Daily Telegraph, 4 April.

  • (1903), Sydney Mail, 8 April.

  • Tackra, 'Art Society’s show’, unidentified newspaper cutting, family scrapbook.

  • Butterfield, Annette (2000), '[MA thesis]’, Sydney, NSW : UNSW College of Fine Arts.

See also

  • 'Sophie Steffanoni, photograph (p.c.)'.
  • 'Heritage section 8, plate 333', Harvest Time Threshing 1898, oil on canvas 33 x 49 cm; inscr. l.l. `Sophie Steffanoni/1898'. Private collection.

Initial data sources

  • Heritage with additions