Edwin Bode b. 1859

  • Artist (Photographer),
  • Artist (Painter)
Edwin Bode was a painter and photographer who travelled throughout Queensland painting watercolours of homesteads in exchange for board and lodging. A longtime resident of Canungra, on his death in 1926 the town's residents paid for his sandstone tombstone, which featured a palette and brushes and was inscribed 'Erected by the many friends and admirers of our natural artist, E. Bode, in memory of his glorious work'
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Citations

  • Adlington, Brett (2001), 'A Place in the Sun: Historical Visions of the Gold Coast’, Gold Coast City Art Gallery catalogue, Surfers Paradise, November 2001-January 2002.

  • Cooper, Tracy, 'Our Natural Artist: Edwin Bode’s visions of a landscape’, Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo, Vic., pp. 11-12.

  • (1979), Gold Coast Bulletin, 01-20.

  • (1928), Daily Standard, 06-18.

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Related collections
  • Local Studies Library, Gold Coast City Council, Surfers Paradise, Qld. (collected in)
  • National Library of Australia, Canberra, ACT (collected in)
  • Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Gold Coast, QLD (collected in)
  • Local Studies Library, Gold Coast City Council, Surfers Paradise, Qld. (collected in)
  • National Library of Australia, Canberra, ACT (collected in)
  • Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Gold Coast, QLD (collected in)