Ailsa Allan b. c.1898

Also known as Ailsa Craig, Ailsa Lee Brown
  • Artist (Printmaker),
  • Artist (Painter)
Australian born painter and printmaker, Allan studied with Thea Proctor and Adelaide Perry at Julian Ashton's Sydney Art School in the late 1920s. Proctor would later praise Allan's wood engravings in an article entitled 'Modern Art in Sydney' that was published in Art and Australia in 1938.
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Citations

  • 'NSW Death Records : 3499/1943’.

  • 'NSW Marriage Records : 13264/1935’.

  • 'NSW Birth Records : 5661/1898’.

  • Butler, Roger (1995), 'Sydney by Design’, http://www.australianprints.gov.au/.

  • Deutscher, Chris / Butler, Roger (1978), 'A Survey of Australian Relief Prints 1905 1950’, Deutscher Galleries catalogue, Melbourne, Vic.

  • Proctor, Thea (1938), 'Modern art in Sydney’, Art in Australia, 11-15.

  • (1987), 'Masterpieces of Australian Printmaking’, Joseph Lebovic Gallery catalogue, Sydney, NSW.

  • (1980), 'The Thirties and Australia’, S.H. Ervin Gallery catalogue, Sydney, NSW.

  • (1929), Undergrowth, January-February.

  • 'Joan Kerr Archive’, National Library of Australia, Canberra, ACT.

See also

  • 'Heritage: ADD section 2, plate 78'.

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  • Proctor, Thea (associate of)
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  • Craig, Maria Graeme (child of)
  • Craig, Robert Gordon (child of)
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  • Craig, Robert Gordon (child of)
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  • Allan, G. U. Scotty (spouse of)
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