In 1916 Violet Musgrave, a talented student at the National Gallery School in Melbourne, married the ambitious young artists, W B McInnes.
Despite having six children, she continued to paint for many years, exhibiting mainly paintings of flowers and related subjects.
W B McInnes became especially well-known for exhibiting (and winning)the Archibald Prize. Violet also entered a number of portraits in the Archibald, incuding in 1938, the year the prize was first given to a woman, Nora Heysen.
After her husband’s health began to fail she ceased to exhibit.
- Writers:
- Staff Writer
Joanna Mendelssohn
- Date written:
- 1999
- Last updated:
- 2019
