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Baker, Christina Asquith, b. 1869
Portrait and figure painter who studied in Paris and in Melbourne at the National Gallery School under Frederick McCubbin. Baker was still exhibiting at the ...
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Carrick Fox, Ethel, b. 1872
Painter born in England. She was a complex, independent, hard-working, resourceful woman whose chief interests, apart from securing recognition for her late husband's work, were ...
Bell, George, b. 1878
Painter, teacher and art critic, George Bell spent a number of years in Europe studying, painting and working as an official war artist from 1918 ...
Bell, George Frederick Henry, b. 1878
The artist George Bell is best known for his influential role as a teacher in Melbourne and his promotion of modernism in Australia.
Gregory, Ina, b. 1874
Ina Gregory and her sister Ada both studied at the National Gallery School and were also associated with the artists' colony at Charterisville. She was ...
Carter, Irene, b. 1900
Irene Carter was born in 1900. She was a painter, musician and teacher who won the watercolour section of the Art Competition in 1951. Carter ...
Leviny, Hilda, b. 1883
Artist,woodcarver, embroiderer and college house matron. The youngest of the Leviny sisters.
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Lindsay, Lionel, b. 1874
The first member of the prolific Lindsay family to become a professional illustrator. A constant experimenter with photography and etching, Lionel Lindsay became a dominant ...
Mackenzie, Isabel, b. 1890
Female drawer and painter of landscapes and still-life who dedicated her life to improving art education in New South Wales, while continuing to exhibit until ...
Marchant, George Lionel, b. 1882
Son of photographer Edwin Walter Marchant, George Marchant was also a photographer. He had his own studio in Clare and later in Adelaide, before he ...
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Griffin, Marion, b. 1871
Working in the same league as Frank Lloyd Wright and Hermann von Holst, Marion eventually married and worked with Walter Burley Griffin on public and ...
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Meldrum, Max, b. 1875
After winning a National Gallery School Travelling Scholarship and moving to Paris to study, Scottish-born painter Max Meldrum found himself out of sympathy with the ...
Gurdon, Nora, b. 1882
A painter, based in Victoria. Her known work has a loose feel with a visible Streeton or Roberts influence.
Paterson, Betty, b. 1895
Mid 20th century Melbourne painter, cartoonist, violinist and singer. Sister of Esther Paterson.
Payne, Ellen Nora, b. 1865
Ellen Nora Payne was a painter and wood-carver. In 1891 she moved to Melbourne and studied under the Art Nouveau carver, Robert Prenzel. Payne also ...
Masters, Percy, b. 1893
Self-taught painter whose panoramas of Gippsland went on exhibition in the mid 1990s.
Plante, Ada, b. 1875
Plante studied at the Académie Julian, Paris, where she lived off little more than biscuits. She later emerged as Modernist, and in 1932 was a ...
Pole, Leon, b. 1871
Federation era painter, muralist and caricaturist. He died in Toronto on 31 December 1951.
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Geach, Portia, b. 1873
An active feminist all her life, Portia Geach spent much of her life tirelessly campaigning on behalf of women's rights. Her art making also reflected ...
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Preston, Margaret, b. 1875
Margaret Preston specialised in still life subjects, seeking to reinvent the genre, with inspiration from Aboriginal art and Australian native flowers, but she also made ...