Theodora Esther Cowan b. 13 November 1868

Also known as Theo Cowan, Theodora Esther Cohen
  • Artist ,
  • Artist (Painter),
  • Artist (Sculptor)
Sculptor, painter, potter and art teacher, born in Sydney, NSW. Resident of London (England) and Sydney (NSW) her later sculptural career seems to have ended in artistic frustration and poverty due in part, she felt, to prejudice because she was a woman.

Citations

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

  • Cousins, Kerry-Anne (1991), 'The National Gallery of New South Wales and its first commission’, Women’s Art Register Bulletin vol. 4, iss.2, Winter.

  • Dolman, Frederick (c.1898), 'The ladies of Sydney’, Woman at Home.

  • Hutchison, Noel S. (1966), 'Theodora Esther Cowan’, Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol.8.

  • Mitchell, Bruce (1988), 'The House on the Hill’, Armidale, NSW.

  • Scarlett, Ken (1980), 'Australian Sculptors’, West Melbourne.

  • Sturgeon, Graham (1978), 'The Development of Australian Sculpture 1788-1975’, London.

  • (1899), 'Australasian Review’, 03, 01.

  • (1932), 'B.P. Magazine’, 06, 01.

  • (1916), 'Bulletin’, 07, 27.

  • (1913), 'Lone Hand’, 10, 01.

  • (1922), 'Society’, 04, 01.

  • (1899), 'Sydney Mail’, 03, 25.

  • (1900), 'Sydney Morning Herald’, 09, 08.

  • Parker, L.A., 'A Brief Memoir of Theodora and Etta Cowan’, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW doc.1105.

  • 'Theo Cowan Papers 1893-1949’, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW manuscript 1206.

  • 'Theodora Cowan’, newscutting file Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW.

  • 'Dame Mary Gilmore Papers 1883-1962’, National Library of Australia, Canberra, ACT, manuscript 958.

  • Cousins, Kerry-Anne (1989), 'Theodora Cowan (1868-1949)’, Masters thesis, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT.

  • Information sourced from Lennon, Jane.

  • Preston, Margaret (1938), 'Pioneer women artists’, The Peaceful Army, ed. Flora Eldershaw, Sydney.

  • (1895), 'Cosmos Magazine’, vol.2, iss.1, 09.

See also

  • 'Memorial Plaque 1899, terracotta. Booloominbah, University of New England, Armidale(Heritage chapter 9, plate 368).'.

Initial data sources

  • Heritage with additions