Ada Plante b. 1875 Temuka, New Zealand

Also known as Ada May Plante
  • Artist (Painter)
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 founding exhibitor with the Melbourne Contemporary Group of Post-Impressionist painters.
Talk | Version history | Updated Oct. 19, 2011 | Created Jan. 1, 1995
Name
Ada Plante
Also known as Ada May Plante
Birth date
4 October 1875
Birth place
Temuka, New Zealand
Death date
3 July 1950
Death place
Armadale, Melbourne, VIC
Gender
Female
Roles
  • Artist (Painter)
Residence
  • c.1934- c.1940 Georgian Darebin Bridge House, Ivanhoe, Melbourne, VIC
  • 1904- 1934 Melbourne, VIC
  • c.1902- c.1904 Paris, France
  • 1888- 1902 Melbourne, VIC
  • 1875- 1888 Temuka, New Zealand
Arrival
  • 1888
Active Period
  • 1894- 1950
Languages
  • English
Training
  • 1902- 1904 Académie Julian, Paris, France
  • 1894- 1899 National Gallery School, Melbourne, VIC
Is Indigenous
No
Initial Record Data Source
  • Heritage: The National Women's Art Book

painter, was born on 4 October 1875 at Temuka, New Zealand.

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Writers:
Staff Writer
Date written:
1995
Last updated:
2011
associate of
L. Bernard Hall
1859
Artist (Painter)
associate of
Clara Southern
1860
Artist (Painter)
associate of
Lina Bryans
1909
Artist
associate of
Arthur Streeton
1867
Artist (Draughtsman), Artist (Printmaker), Artist (Painter)
associate of
Alan McLeod McCulloch
1907
Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator), Artist (Painter)
associate of
Jane Sutherland
1853
Artist (Painter)
associate of
Frederick McCubbin
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
associate of
Jo Sweatman
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
associate of
Cristina Asquith Baker
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
associate of
Adrian Lawlor
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
associate of
Isabel Hunter Tweddle
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
associate of
Louie Riggall
1868
Artist (Painter), Artist (Draughtsman)
associate of
Isabel May Tweddle
1875
Artist (Painter)
associate of
Melbourne Society of Women Painters and Sculptors, VIC
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
associate of
Melbourne Contemporary Group of Post-Impressionist painters, VIC
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
associate of
Victorian Artists' Society, VIC
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
(Quinces)
Collections
(Solo exhibition)
1945
Exhibition (exhibited at)
None
Melbourne Contemporary Group of Post-Impressionist Painters
1932
Exhibition (exhibited at)
Melbourne, VIC
Melbourne Society of Women Painters and Sculptors
1931- 1950
Exhibition (exhibited at)
Melbourne, VIC
Women's Work Exhibition
1907
Exhibition ()
Exhibition Building, Melbourne, Vic
Victorian Artists' Society
1905- 1916
Exhibition (exhibited at)
Melbourne, Victoria
Recognitions
Prizes won at 1907 Women's Work Exhibition, Melbourne, VIC
1907
Award
Note: Prizes
Citations:
  • Peers, Juliet, (1993), More Than Just Gumtrees, (Place: Melbourne, VIC)
  • (22 June 1990), Letter from R.E. Wittman to Juliet Peers 22 June 1990, (Place: (Quoting Jock Frater))
  • Lawler, Adrian, (7 July 1950), A Tribute to Miss Ada Plante, (Place: in Radio broadcast talk, Lawler Papers, La Trobe Collection, State Library of Victoria, Melbourne, VIC, (manuscript 12145))
  • Phipps, Jennifer, (1988), Ada May Plante, (Place: in Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 11, [Serle, G. (ed.)], Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, VIC)
  • Peers, Juliet, (1990), Ada May Plante, (Place: in The Melbourne Modernists, Victorian Art Society, Melbourne, VIC)
See also:
  • Section 2, plate 84, (Heritage biography.)