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Heap, Amy Elizabeth, b. 1874
Painter, illustrator, craftworker, photographer and commercial artist. During WWI and into the mid 1930's, Heap worked as a photographer and illustrator for Western Australian Newspapers.
O'Connor, Kate, b. 1876
Gibbs, May, b. 1877
Creator of the famous tales of Snugglepot and Cuddlepie, the Gumnut babies, Gibbs began her career as a cartoonist and hoped to be recognised as ...
Vanzetti, Francesco, b. 1878
Artist, designer, metalsmith, architect, farmer, research officer and lecturer. He designed the "Certificate of Award" for the Coolgardie exhibition of 1899. Vanzetti also designed a ...
Steitz, Ludwig, b. 1885
Sculptor and painter who won Lady Hackett's Prize for Figure Drawing in 1912. Steitz was a bachelor, apparently of independent means, who in later life, ...
Cummings, Douglas Laurie, b. 1897
Sign writer, watercolourist, policeman, photographer and graphic artist who exhibited with the West Australian Society of Arts and designed the Pitman & Walsh Memorial in ...
Darbyshire, Beatrice Dean, b. 1901
A talented artist, Beatrice Darbyshire exhibited in England and Perth throughout the 1920s and 1930s.
Matier, Robert Alexander, b. 1901
Western Australian painter who was awarded The Claude Hotchin Prize for Watercolour three times in 1958, 1968 and 1970.
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Kahan, Louis, b. 1905
Louis Kahan was a versatile, multi-talented artist and designer. He served in the French Foreign Legion and worked as a tailor in Paris where he ...
Cook, Eileen, b. 1906
Eileen Cook was born in 1906. She was a sculptor and modeller. Cook earned her living as a commercial artist, primarily as an illustrator, drawing ...
Cook, Allon, b. 1907
Allon Cook was born in 1907. He was a painter who exhibited with the West Australian Society of Arts and with the Perth Society of ...
Hodgson, Mattie, b. 1909
Mattie Hodgson was a photographer retoucher, and colourist working in Perth and London from the mid-1920s to World War II,
Phillips, Eric Stanley, b. 1917
He became a member of the Perth Society of Artists and was President at one stage.
Dutkiewicz, Wladyslaw, b. 1918
Dutkiewicz was an expressionist, constructivist, abstract and semi-abstract painter and occasional sculptor who was also involved in theatrical design, directing and acting. Dutkiewicz ran theatre ...
Taylor, Howard, b. 1918
Howard Taylor began to draw and explore his interest in art while a prisoner of war in Europe in the early 1940s. After studying at ...
Taylor, Howard Hamilton, b. 1918
Painter, sculptor and teacher, his work was presented in two retrospectives, in 1985 at the AGWA, and from 2003-06 at ten-venues organised by the MCA ...
Forbes-Smith, Ira Eleanor Elizabeth, b. 1920
Designer of textiles, painter, china painter, leatherworker and art teacher. Forbes-Smith showed regularly with the Western Australian Women Painters and Applied Arts Society. In the ...
Penberthy, Wesley, b. 1920
Winner of the 1955 Sulman Award. Pemberthy studied under Norman Lindsay in New South Wales.
Rowbothan, Marjory, b. 1923
Daughter of art teacher Walter Rowbotham she won numerous prizes including Albany Art Competition Painting Prize 1973, Drawing Prize 1973, Shire Prize 1975, Shire Prize ...
Russell, Arthur Clarence, b. 1927
Russell studied at East Sydney Technical School under Godfrey Miller, John Passmore and Ralph Balson. He won the Rupert Boan Landscape Prize in 1961 and ...