Portia Geach b. 1873

Also known as Portia Stranston Geach, Portia Swanston Geach
  • Artist
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 this desire to show the world the feminine voice, producing artworks with powerful female figures.

Citations

  • Ainsworth, Jude (1965), 'Memorial to that grand old battler: Miss Portia Geach’, Australian Women’s Weekly, February, p.10.

  • Ambrus, Caroline (1984), 'The Ladies’ Picture Show’, Sydney, NSW.

  • Hammond, Victoria & Peers, Juliet (1992), 'Completing the Picture’, East Hawthorn, Vic.

  • Harris, Gavin (2001), 'Portia and her Prize’, Art & Australia 39/1, pp.112-119.

  • McCulloch, Alan & McCulloch, Susan (1994), 'The Encyclopedia of Australian Art’, St Leonards, NSW.

  • Peers, Juliet (1993), 'Portia Geach: Gippsland’s Pre-Raphaelite?’, Arts Gippsland, April-May.

  • Wright, Andrée, 'Portia Swanston Geach’, Australian Dictionary of Biography, 8.

  • (1924), Society, October , p.1.

  • (c.1950), 'Portia Geach Champion of the Housewife’, Mitchell Library Pamphlet File, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW.

  • (1906), 'The 100 Best Pictures of the Royal Art Society’s Exhibition’, Sydney, NSW.

  • Information sourced from Lennon, Jane.

  • Information sourced from Harris, Gavin.

  • Information sourced from Buckley, Jerome.

See also

  • 'Tales from Tennyson : 'Queen Guinevere', 1902?, (private collection) : Heritage, plate 369'.

Initial data sources

  • Heritage: The National Women's Art Book