Alice Emilie Adair b. 1878

  • Artist (Painter)
Female Federation period painter who exhibited in Western Australia for over a decade with the West Australian Society of Arts.
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Painter, Alice Emilie Turner, daughter of James Turner of Melbourne married Frederick Norman Adair in Perth in 1898. He also came from Melbourne. They lived in Cottesloe. She painted in oils and water colours and exhibited with the WA Society of Arts c.1898-1912. She was the society’s librarian in 1911.She shared an exhibition with Gordon Holdsworth at the Book Lover’s Library run by Mrs Zabel in 1916 but in November that year when he enlisted her husband was a widower.

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1999
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2015

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References [<ExternalResource: Dorothy Erickson, “Aspects of Stylistic and Social Influence on the Practice of Gold and Silversmithing in Western Australia 1829-1965.” PhD. Thesis UWA 1992.>, <ExternalResource: Daily News Jan. 27 1911, p. 8.>, <ExternalResource: The West Australian Dec. 7 1898, p. 5, Jan. 7 1903, p. 4.>] [<ExternalResource: Dorothy Erickson, “Aspects of Stylistic and Social Influence on the Practice of Gold and Silversmithing in Western Australia 1829-1965.” PhD. Thesis UWA 1992.>]
See alsos [<ExternalResource: WA Society of Arts exhibition catalogues and files AGWA.>]