Florence Aline Rodway b. 11 November 1881

Also known as Florence Rodway, Mrs Walter Moore
  • Artist (Draughtsman),
  • Artist (Painter)
Florence Aline Rodway had a splendid career as a portraitist but preferred to do more complex compositions with figures. Together with artists such as Thea Proctor, Margaret Preston, Sir John Longstaff, Arthur Streeton and Hans Heysen she represented Australia in the second London exhibition of contemporary art of the Empire at the Imperial Institute in South Kensington in 1928.
Tags: painter, Portraiture, Pastel artist
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Citations

  • (1 January 1910), 'The Australian Girl as seen by Florence Rodway’, 282(?), series.

  • ed. Kerr, Joan, 'Florence Aline Rodway by Bell, Pamela’, Heritage, Craftsman House, Sydney, NSW.

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

  • Souter, D. H. (1909), 'Miss Florence Rodway: Comments on her work’, Art and Architecture, 6.

  • (1916), Art in Australia, 1.

  • (1 April 1910), 'The Art of the Year’, Lone Hand, 665.

  • Interview with Hazel de Berg (8 December 1965), 'Rodway, Florence’, National Library of Australia, Canberra, oral history tape 156.

  • Letter from Collins, Susanne (the artist’s daughter) (1983), DAA.

  • Backhouse, Sue (1988), 'Florence Rodway’, Australian Dictionary of Biography 11, ed. Pike, D., Shaw, A., Clark, M., Nairn,B., Serle, G., and Ward, R., vols 1-6, Melbourne 1966/1976 (1988) and Tasmanian Artists of the Twentieth Century, Hobart 1988.

  • (1918), Art in Australia, 4.

See also

  • 'Vera Cosgrove, 1905, pastel on paper on canvas, National Library of Australia, Canberra, ACT PIC R11311.'.

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  • Burnie Regional Art Gallery, Burnie, TAS (collected in)
  • WL Crowther Library, State Library of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS (collected in)
  • Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart, TAS (collected in)
  • Mildura Arts Centre, Mildura Rural City Council, VIC (collected in)
  • University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC (collected in)
  • La Trobe Collection, State Library of Victoria, Melbourne, VIC (collected in)
  • Parliament House, Canberra, ACT (collected in)
  • Australian War Memorial, Canberra, ACT (collected in)
  • National Library of Australia, Canberra, ACT (collected in)
  • National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT (collected in)
  • University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW (collected in)
  • S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney, NSW (collected in)
  • Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW (collected in)
  • Queensland Art Gallery (collected in)
  • Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia (collected in)
  • Castlemaine Art Museum (collected in)
  • Castlemaine Art Museum, Castlemaine, VIC (collected in)
  • Burnie Regional Art Gallery, Burnie, TAS (collected in)
  • WL Crowther Library, State Library of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS (collected in)
  • Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart, TAS (collected in)
  • Mildura Arts Centre, Mildura Rural City Council, VIC (collected in)
  • University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC (collected in)
  • La Trobe Collection, State Library of Victoria, Melbourne, VIC (collected in)
  • Parliament House, Canberra, ACT (collected in)
  • Australian War Memorial, Canberra, ACT (collected in)
  • National Library of Australia, Canberra, ACT (collected in)
  • National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT (collected in)
  • University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW (collected in)
  • S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney, NSW (collected in)
  • Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW (collected in)
  • Queensland Art Gallery (collected in)
  • Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia (collected in)