Stella Marks b. 27 November 1887

  • Artist (Painter)
Stella Marks, portrait miniaturist. Born Melbourne 1887; studied at the Melbourne National Gallery School; exhibited 1913 with the West Australian Society of Arts. Lived in New York 1914 to 1934. The National Gallery of Melbourne purchased 'Maud Allen' and 'Mr Justice McKenna'. Following numerous commissions from the Royal Family was awarded the MVO in 1979.
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Minaturist who exhibited oil paintings and series of twenty-one miniatures of children of local people and other subjects with the West Australian Society of Arts in 1913. One subject was Norma Rolland later an embroiderer and weaver. Her husband Montague saw active service in World War I and was killed.


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Dr Dorothy Erickson
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2010
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2011

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  • c.1910 - c.1980
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