Jo Sweatman

Also known as Miss Sweatman, E. M. Sweatman
  • Artist (Painter)
Melbourne painter, Jo Sweatman's "Study in White," curiously Whistlerian in style, was stated in the 'Lone Hand' to be one of the best; if not the best; figure pictures in the 1909 Victorian Artists' Society exhibition.
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painter, Melbourne. 'The Art of the Year’, Lone Hand 1 April 1910, p.672 [by various 'art correspondents’], discusses the 1909 Victorian Artists’ Society exhibition, depreciates the 'leathery tones’ of Mr. Wilkie, 'a man of great promise a few years ago’, and calls his work 'the direct antithesis of Miss Sweatman’s “Study in White,” curiously Whistlerian in style, one of the best – if not the best – figure pictures in the exhibition, and miles ahead of all her previous work.’

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