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Haxton, Elaine Alys, b. 1909
Painter, printmaker and designer, Haxton worked through the 1930s as a commercial artist in both Sydney and London. In 1943 she won the Sulman Prize ...
Herbst, Gerard, b. 1911
Herbst was a designer for Prestige (Fabrics) Limited, an illustrator and later principal lecturer at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in industrial design, graphics. In ...
Danciger, Alice, b. 1914
A painter, theatre and fabric designer who worked with some of the most significant modernist artists in Australia.
Nolan, Sidney, b. 1917
Sir Sidney Nolan, the son of a Melbourne tram driver, became one of Australia's most celebrated and honoured artists. His Ned Kelly series made him ...
Dutkiewicz, Wladyslaw, b. 1918
Dutkiewicz was an expressionist, constructivist, abstract and semi-abstract painter and occasional sculptor who was also involved in theatrical design, directing and acting. Dutkiewicz ran theatre ...
Sainthill, Loudon, b. 1918
Sainthill was involved in a number of mural projects while in Melbourne. He became a leading mid 20th century painter and theatre designer who lived ...
Cowen, Don, b. 1920
Don Cowen worked for only a few years in Australia, beginning as a promising younger artist in Brisbane in the early 1950s, before departing for ...
Dutkiewicz, Ludwik, b. 1921
Ludwik Dutkiewicz was one of several of South Australia's most progressive artists of the post-war era, arriving in Adelaide as an expressionist painter but soon ...
Boddington, Jennie, b. 1922
Jennie Boddington was the first curator of photography to be appointed in Australia. She was responsible for the National Gallery of Victoria's photography collection from ...
Ostoja-Kotkowski, Stanislaus, b. 1922
Joseph Stanislaw Ostoja-Kotkowski, abstract expressionist painter, theatre set designer, photographer, experimental film producer and light and sound artist was born in Golub, Poland in 1922 ...
Penglase, Marjory, b. 1922
Painter, theatrical designer and teacher, Marjory Penglase married fellow artist, Newton Hedstrom, and won numerous awards during her career. In later years she travelled extensively ...
Hole, Quentin, b. 1923
Quentin Hole was regarded as an artist of early promise in Brisbane during the 1950s but gave up exhibiting his paintings to concentrate on establishing ...
McGilchrist, Erica, b. 1926
A painter, illustrator, dancer and teacher - taught painting at Kew Mental Hospital, was significant in the women's movement, and has had over 40 solo ...
Carrol, Jean , b. 1927
Carrol trained as a milliner at Moray Millinery, Sydney working in women's millinery, then transferred her skills to theatre, television and film in the mid-1960s. ...
Lingwood, Tom, b. 1927
Lingwood was a set designer, notably for the Australian Opera Company's production of Prokofiev's "War and Peace".