Stella Bowen b. 16 May 1893

Also known as Esther Gwendolyn Bowen
  • Artist (Painter)
Single-minded in her desire to be an artist, Stella Bowen studied briefly under Margaret Preseon before leaving Adelaide at 20 to study art in London. A friendship with Ezra Pound introduced Bowen to a wide literary circle including W.B. Yeats and T.S. Eliot and Bowen would later famously go on to marry the writer Ford Madox Ford. As a painter Bowen is perhaps best remembered for the body of work
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Citations

  • Bowen, Stella (1941), 'Drawn from Life’, London (revised edition 1974), Virago reprint 1984 (London).

  • Christesen, C.B. (1979), 'Esther Gwendolyn Bowen: Portrait painter and official war artist’, Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol. 7.

  • Dalby Davidson, Frank (1967), 'Stella Bowen’s Odyssey’, Melbourne, Vic. : Age 01-17.

  • Hylton, Jane (1994), 'South Australian Women Artists’, Art Gallery of South Australia catalogue, Adelaide, SA.

  • Judd, Alan (1991), 'Ford Madox Ford’, London, England.

  • Pesman, Ros (1995), 'The letters of Stella Bowen and Ford Madox Ford’, Overland 139, pp.19-23.

  • Reid, John (1977), 'Australian Artists at War , vol.2’, Melbourne, Vic.

  • J. Stang, Sondra & Cochran, Karen (eds) (1993), 'The Correspondence of Ford Madox Ford and Stella Bowen’, Bloomington.

  • Thomas, Daniel & Radford, Ron (eds) (1988), 'Creating Australia: 200 Years of Art 1788-1988’, Art Gallery of South Australia catalogue, Adelaide, SA.

  • Wilkins, Lola (1991), 'Stella Bowen: Australian war artist’, Art and Australia, vol. 28, no. 4 (Winter).

  • Cameron Wilson, Shirley (1988), 'From Shadow into Light’, St Peter’s (South Australia).

  • (1990), 'Art and Action’, Australian War Memorial catalogue, Canberra, ACT.

  • (1946), 'As you were’, Canberra, ACT.

  • Australian War Memorial correspondence files.

  • Wilkins, Lola (1990), 'Women Artists who went to war’, Australian Collectors’ Quarterly (May-July).

See also

  • 'Heritage: section 10, plate 444'.

Initial data sources

  • Heritage: The National Women's Art Book

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