Bertha Sloane

  • Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator)
Illustrator and commercial artist. Sloane trained in commercial art in Sydney with Albert Collins and worked under him at the Smith & Julius art studio, the commercial arm of Sydney Ure Smith's enterprises.
Talk | Version history | Updated Oct. 19, 2011 | Created Jan. 1, 1995
Name
Bertha Sloane
Gender
Female
Roles
  • Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator)
Residence
  • Sydney, NSW
Other Occupation
  • Commercial artist
Active Period
  • c.1921- c.1927
Languages
  • English
Training
  • Smith & Julius art studio, Sydney, NSW
Is Indigenous
No
Initial Record Data Source
  • Heritage: The National Women's Art Book

illustrator and commercial artist, was the daughter of Mr and Mrs T.G. Sloane of Sydney and of Moorila Station, NSW. She trained in commercial art in Sydney with Albert Collins and worked under him at the Smith & Julius art studio, the commercial arm of Sydney Ure Smith’s enterprises, where she did illustrations for Home magazine, e.g. frontispiece September 1922. The caption to her photograph by Judith Fletcher in Home (December 1921) states:

This jolly-faced youngster is Bertha Sloane, pupil and assistant of Albert Collins. She has a facile pencil that designs half the graceful ladies and chubby babies that disport in the advertisements of our papers and magazines. Bertha’s a girl of the bush, and a horse and a track through the gum trees is all the amusement she asks of life.

She also drew the 1 October 1927 cover of The New Triad and, with Margot Finlayson, illustrated a limited edition collection of verses, Baby Ballads by Edyth, Lady Bavin (Sydney 1927).

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Writers:
Kerr, Joan Note: Heritage biography.
Date written:
1995
Last updated:
2011
associate of
Albert Collins
1883
Designer (Graphic Designer), Artist (Painter)
associate of
Ann Judith Fletcher
1886
Artist (Textile Artist / Fashion Designer), Artist (Photographer)
associate of
Wanda Radford
Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator)
associate of
Thea Proctor
1879
Artist (Industrial / Product Designer), Artist (Printmaker), Artist (Painter)
associate of
Sydney Ure Smith
1887
Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator), Artist (Graphic Designer), Artist (Painter), Artist (Draughtsman), Artist (Printmaker)
associate of
Bernice Agar
1885
Artist (Photographer)
associate of
Margot Finlayson
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
associate of
Lady Bavin Edyth
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
child of
Mr T. G. Sloane
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
child of
Mrs T. G. Sloane
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
associate of
John Moore
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
Citations:
  • Underhill, Nancy D.H., (1991), Making Australian Art 1916-1949, (Place: Melbourne, Vic.)
See also:
  • Section 6, plate 237
  • PORTRAIT: Bertha Sloane, photograph by Judith Fletcher, Home 1 December 1921. Wanda Radford, 'Society of Artists Open Day' (drawing includes Bertha Sloane, Thea Proctor, Sydney Ure Smith and John Moore) Home 1 November 1924, 25; photograph by Bernice Agar, 'Miss Bertha Sloane of Sydney and of Moorila Station N.S.W., the daughter of Mr and Mrs T.G. Sloane. Bertha does clever decorative art work and