Florence Gertrude Rushton b. 1884

  • Artist (Sculptor)
We can only infer that without the demands of husband and children she, like many other women of her generation, was drawn to the potentially satisfying and challenging possibilities of creative endeavour, perhaps as a temporary diversion from an otherwise routine middle-class existence.
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Citations

  • Powerhouse Museum, ’89/381 Hall settle, blackwood, carved in Arts and Crafts style by Gertrude Rushton, made Hamlyn Bros, Adelaide, South Australia, 1913’, Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, NSW.

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  • Burgess, H.T. (ed.) (1907), 'Benjamin Franklin Rushton’, Cyclopedia of South Australia, Volume 1, Adelaide, SA.

  • Dolan, David (1981), 'Turn of the century woodcarvings from South Australia’, Australian Antique Collector (January-June 1981).

  • Menz, Christopher (1994), 'Morris & Company: Pre-Raphaelites and the Arts and Crafts Movement in South Australia’, Art Gallery of South Australia catalogue, Adelaide, SA.

  • Thompson, Judith (1986), 'Crafts of South Australia’, Art Gallery of South Australia catalogue, Adelaide, SA.

See also

  • 'Section 11, plate 470'.

Initial data sources

  • Heritage: The National Women's Art Book

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