Hera Roberts b. 1892

Also known as Hera Christian Glen, Hera Christian Roberts
  • Artist (Painter),
  • Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator)
A flamboyantly stylish and well known designer working in the bold modernist style of the 1920s and 1930s. Very much part of the Sydney social scene, Roberts enjoyed a considerable amount of fame and artistic authority.
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Citations

  • 'NSW Death Records : 10573/1969; 38078/1965’.

  • 'NSW Marriage Records : 20710/1953; 6547/1890’.

  • 'NSW Birth Records : 12660/1892; 8291/1867’.

  • McNeil, Peter (December 1994), 'Designing women: Gender sexuality and the interior decorator c.1890-1940’, Art History, .

  • (30 January 1930), Herself 11/1.

  • (10 October 1919), Triad.

  • Waddell, Thea, Information from.

  • Lennon, Jane, Information from.

  • Fullagar, Col, Information from.

  • Emma Glyde. “Life in Colour. The Modern Vision of Hera Roberts.” Look, May 2013 (AGNSW), pps.16-18.

  • Gitte Weise. “En garde. Hera Roberts and the Burdekin House exhibition.” Sydney Moderns, AGNSW, 2013, pp.126-131..

  • “Australian Furniture.” Architectural Section, (J.L. Stephen Mansfield, editor.), Art in Australia 16 November 1936, pps.77-88. [furniture by S. Lipson, Molly Gray/Ricketts and Thorp, Fred Ward, F.E. de Groot, Hera Roberts, Stuart-Low Furniture Studio, H. Goldman P/L, Mewton and Grounds, E.F. Bilson/Branchflower]

See also

  • 'Portrait of Miss Hera Roberts by Thea Proctor, watercolour from Art in Australia 1 February 1923.'.
  • 'Heritage, section 1, plate 34'.

Initial data sources

  • Heritage with additions

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