Thea Proctor b. 2 October 1879

Also known as Alethea Mary Proctor
  • Artist (Printmaker),
  • Artist (Painter),
  • Designer (Graphic Designer)
A well known and well loved Australian artist, Thea Proctor was prolific both as an artist and designer. A prominent figure in the art scene she championed the ideas of 'taste' and 'style'.
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Citations

  • Ambrus, Caroline (1984), 'The Ladies’ Picture Show’, Sydney, NSW.

  • Burke, Janine (1977), 'Thea Proctor’, Imprint, Number 4.

  • Butler, Roger (1980), 'Thea Proctor’, Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 11, Pike, D., Shaw, A., Clark, M., Nairn, B., Serle, G., and Ward, R., eds, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, Vic.

  • Gooding, Janda (1982), 'Thea Proctor’, Catalogue, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, Perth, WA.

  • Gullet, Leon (1966), 'Thea Proctor’, Sunday Telegraph, (obituary), August, 7, page 61.

  • Humphries, Barry (1966), 'Thea Proctor, A memoir’, Bulletin, August, 13.

  • McDonald, James S. (1922), 'An interview with Thea Proctor’, Art in Australia, Volume 1, Number 1, February, 1.

  • Proctor, Thea (1938), 'Modern art in Sydney’, Art in Australia, November, 15.

  • Wilkinson, Kenneth (1935), 'Thea Proctor, Her recent work’, Art in Australia, May, 15.

  • (1989), 'Australian Paintings, Prints, Books and Maps’, Catalogue, Christie’s, October, 3, Sydney, NSW.

  • (1929), 'Burdekin House Exhibition’, Catalogue, Sydney, NSW.

  • (1920), Art in Australia, Number 7.

  • (1913), Lone Hand, July, 1.

  • (1922), Society, August, 1.

  • de Berg, Hazel (1961), 'Interview with Thea Proctor’, oral history tape National Library of Australia, Canberra, reproduced in Geoffrey Dutton (ed.), Artists’ Portraits, Canberra, ACT.

  • Burke, Janine (1980), 'Thea Proctor’, Australian Women Artists 1840-1940, Collingwood, Vic.

  • Butler, Roger with Minchin, Jan (1980), 'Thea Proctor, The Prints’, Catalogue Raisonné, Sydney, NSW.

  • (1932), Art in Australia, Number 43, April.

  • Humphries, Barry, Sayers, Andrew, Engledow, Sarah (2005), 'The world of Thea Proctor’, Craftsman House, Melbourne, Vic (National Portrait Gallery, Canberra, ACT).

  • Information sourced from Fletcher, Daina.

  • “Car Colours.” The West Australian, 19 December 1929, p.4

See also

  • 'PORTRAIT: Professor A.L. Sadler Shows Japanese Prints to Miss Thea Proctor during Ethel Spower[s]'s Exhibition at Adrian Feint's Grosvenor Galleries, vignette in 'Sydney s'amuse' by Mahdi McCrae, from Home 1 July 1926.'.
  • 'Section 2: plate 71', Heritage biography.

Initial data sources

  • Heritage with additions

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