Teacher and artist who is listed as past student of one of the branches of the technical schools in Perth, Western Australia. Ramage lived in 'Bay View Terrace’, Claremont, Western Australia in 1905. He painted the Operative Bakers Industrial Union of Workers banner in Kalgoorlie in 1911.
In 1913 Ramage exhibited an oil painting of 'Walter’, other watercolour scenes and a poster with the West Australian Society of Arts. In 1920 he contributed eleven oil paintings of Western Australian scenes with subjects ranging from 'Arcadia’ to 'Dying of Thirst’.
Ramage taught at Midland Junction Technical School in the 1930s until art classes there were closed in 1937. Ramage’s Kalgoorlie banner is in the collection of the Western Australian Museum. It is painted on canvas with a silk border. On the front are two women, local incarnations of Walter Crane’s Angel of Freedom, symbol of working class emancipation, painted in a Pre-Raphaelite style. The reverse shows two bakers on either side of a cameo of wheat fields holding the slogan “United We Stand, Divided We Fall”. The detailing of the cartouches shows an Art Nouveau sensibility, which contrasts with the more realist depiction of the men. His self-portrait is held by the S Battye Library of West Australian History.
- Writers:
- Dr Dorothy Erickson
- Date written:
- 2010
- Last updated:
- 2011
