Florence Aline Rodway b. 11 November 1881

Also known as Florence Rodway, Mrs Walter Moore
  • Artist (Draughtsman),
  • Artist (Painter)
While Florence Aline Rodway had a splendid career as a portraitist she preferred to do more complex compositions with figures. Together with the 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.
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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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  • Project 21: Women's Images of Women (exhibited at)
  • Melbourne Society of Women Painters and Sculptors (exhibited at)
  • Women Artists of Australia (exhibited at)
  • London exhibition of contemporary art of the Empire (exhibited at)
  • British Empire Exhibition (None)
  • Exhibition of Australian Art (None)
  • First Australian Women's Work Exhibition (None)
  • Colonial Pastime to Contemporary Profession: 150 years of Australian Women's Art (exhibited at)
  • A Century of Australian Women's Art (1880s-1990s) (exhibited at)
  • Trust the Women, (exhibited at)
  • Review (exhibited at)
  • Women and Art (exhibited at)
  • Women hold up half the sky (exhibited at)
  • Beyond the Picket Fence: Australian women's art in the National Library collections (exhibited at)