Jessie Mackintosh b. 1892 Adelaide, SA

Also known as Jessie Macqueen Mackintosh
  • Artist (Photographer) , (Printmaker) , (Painter)
Female artist who painted, drew, photographed and printed. She illustrated children's books and designed board games. She was well connected to artists in Melbourne during the first half of the twentieth century.
Talk | Version history | Updated Oct. 19, 2011 | Created Jan. 1, 1995
Name
Jessie Mackintosh
Also known as Jessie Macqueen Mackintosh
Birth date
1892
Birth place
Adelaide, SA
Death date
15 June 1958
Death place
Hawthorn, Melbourne, VIC
Gender
Female
Roles
  • Artist (Photographer)
  • Artist (Printmaker)
  • Artist (Painter)
Residence
  • c.1892- c.1958 Melbourne, VIC
Active Period
  • c.1924- c.1957
Languages
  • English
Training
  • c.1927- c.1931 National Gallery of Victoria School, Melbourne, VIC
  • c.1929 Malvern Road, Toorak, Melbourne, VIC
  • c.1935 Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne, VIC
  • c.1932- c.1935 Bell-Shore School of Creative Art, Melbourne, VIC
  • c.1924 Selborne Road, Toorak, Melbourne, VIC
  • c.1908- c.1911 National Gallery of Victoria School, Melbourne, Vic
Is Indigenous
No
Initial Record Data Source
  • Heritage: The National Women's Art Book

painter, printmaker, designer and photographer, was born in Adelaide.

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Writers:
Staff Writer
Date written:
1995
Last updated:
2011
associate of
Sybil Mary Frances Craig
1901
Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator), Artist (Painter)
associate of
Eveline Winifred Syme
1888
Artist (Painter), Artist (Printmaker)
associate of
Ethel Louise Spowers
1890
Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator), Artist (Printmaker), Artist (Painter)
associate of
Eric Thake
1904
Artist
associate of
James Flett
1906
Artist (Draughtsman), Artist (Painter)
associate of
Constance Stokes
1906
Artist
associate of
Edward B. Heffernan
Artist (Printmaker)
associate of
William Henry Archibald Constable
1906
Artist (Printmaker), Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator), Artist (Painter), Artist (Screen Artist)
associate of
Helen Elizabeth Ogilvie
1902
Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator), Artist, Artist (Printmaker), Artist (Painter)
associate of
Jessie Traill
1881
Artist (Printmaker), Artist (Painter)
associate of
Janet Agnes Cumbrae Stewart
1883
Artist (Draughtsman), Artist (Painter)
associate of
Dora L. Wilson
1883
Artist (Painter), Artist (Draughtsman)
associate of
George Bell
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
associate of
Robert Timmings
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
associate of
Norah Gurdon
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
associate of
Dr Clive
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
associate of
Dorothy Stephen
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
associate of
Peggy Crombie
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
associate of
John Vickery
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
associate of
Moya Carey
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
associate of
Anne Montgomery
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
associate of
Frank Guy
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
associate of
née Hurry Polly Farmer
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
associate of
Isabel May Tweddle
1875
Artist (Painter)
associate of
New Melbourne Art Club, Melbourne, VIC
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
associate of
Twenty Melbourne Painters, VIC
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
associate of
Melbourne Society of Women Painters and Sculptors, Melbourne, VIC
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
associate of
Melbourne Book Club, Melbourne, VIC
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
associate of
Victorian Artists' Society, VIC
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
Discovery
Date
1945
Corroboree
Date
1943
Race round Australia
Date
1941
Manuscripts
Date
c.1931- c.1935
Collections
None
Exhibition (exhibited at)
Athenaeum, Melbourne, VIC
None
Exhibition (exhibited at)
Tyers Gallery, Melbourne, VIC
None
Exhibition (exhibited at)
Rookwood, Gallery, Melbourne, VIC
Herald Art Show
None
Exhibition (exhibited at)
Melbourne, VIC
Ideal Home exhibition
None
Exhibition (exhibited at)
Melbourne, VIC
New Melbourne Art Club
November 1933
Exhibition (exhibited at)
Sedon galleries, Melbourne, VIC
Citations:
  • Hope, Millie, Nonsense Rhymes
  • Butler, Roger & Deutscher, Chris, (1978), A Survey of Australian Relief Prints 1900-1950, (Place: Deutscher Galleries catalogue, Melbourne, VIC)
  • Butler, Roger, (1981), Melbourne Woodcuts and Linocuts of the 1920's and 1930's, (Place: City of Ballarat Fine Art Gallery catalogue, Ballarat, VIC)
  • (1987), Masterpieces of Australian Printmaking, (Place: Josef Lebovic Gallery catalogue, Sydney)
  • Moore, Felicity St. John, (1992), Classical Modernism: The George Bell Circle, (Place: NGV catalogue, Melbourne, VIC)
  • Peers, Juliet, More Than Just Gumtrees, (Place: Melbourne 1993)
  • Loxley, Anne, (1991), Her Story, (Place: S.H. Ervin Gallery catalogue, Sydney, NSW)
  • Eagle, Mary & Minchin, Jay, (1981), The George Bell School, (Place: Melbourne, VIC)
  • Alexander, Jim, (1990), Jessie Mackintosh and Peggy Crombie, (Place: Important Women Artists catalogue, Melbourne, VIC)
  • Alexander, Jim, (1982), Sybil Craig, (Place: Important Women Artists catalogue, Melbourne, VIC)
See also:
  • ADD section 3, plate 128
  • PORTRAIT: 1930s pencil sketch of Jessie Mackintosh with no face except nose, by Sybil Craig, CAGHM (ill. Kirsten McKay, 11).