Elinor Wrobel b. 1 January 1933

Also known as Elinor Ring
  • Curator
Wrobel was a private gallery curator (Woolloomooloo Art Gallery ) and collector working with her partner Fred Wrobel until his death. In 2003, she created the John Passmore Museum of Art to promote his work after an inheritance from the Passmore estate in 1989. Their museum collected broadly She was also instrumental in developing the Nightingale Museum, Sydney Hospital as well as the career of Percy Grainger (d.1961)
Tags: Percy Grainger, John Passmore, Nightingale Museum, Sydney Hospital
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Name
Elinor Wrobel
Also known as Elinor Ring
Gender
Female
Roles
  • Curator
Tags:
Percy Grainger
John Passmore
Nightingale Museum
Sydney Hospital
Birth date
1 January 1933
Birth place
Paddington, Sydney, NSW
Death date
1 January 2023
Death place
Sydney, NSW
Initial Record Data Source
  • Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS

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Related events
  • Nancy Borlase retrospective (curator of)
  • Harold Abbott: retrospective, 1906-1986 (curator of)
  • Australian Women Artists of the Twentieth Century from the collection of Elinor and Fred Wrobel (curator of)
  • Lucy Osburn-Nightingale Museum (curator of)
  • Nancy Borlase retrospective (curator of)
  • Harold Abbott: retrospective, 1906-1986 (curator of)
  • Australian Women Artists of the Twentieth Century from the collection of Elinor and Fred Wrobel (curator of)