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Leviny, Hilda, b. 1883
Artist,woodcarver, embroiderer and college house matron. The youngest of the Leviny sisters.
Atkinson, Ethel, b. 1887
Potter, leather worker, china painter and designer. Atkinson set up the 'Ceramic Art Studio' with business partner Ada Newman. A regular exhibitor with the Arts ...
Farmer, Helen Marguerite, b. 1888
Painter and etcher who studied under Sydney Long and was taught the intaglio printmaking technique by Sir Will Ashton. Regarded as one of the principal ...
Mackenzie, Isabel, b. 1890
Female drawer and painter of landscapes and still-life who dedicated her life to improving art education in New South Wales, while continuing to exhibit until ...
Field, Florence Roma, b. 1891
An accomplished self-taught embroiderer, Field experimented with different stitches and materials and also mastered traditional European embroidery skills. A lifelong member of the Embroiderers Guild ...
Perry, Adelaide, b. 1891
Painter, printmaker and art teacher with her own studios and art schools in Sydney. Perry also studied, worked and exhibited in London and Paris. Her ...
Holden, Nell Turner, b. 1892
Nell Turner Holden was a potter. An active member of the NSW Society of Arts & Crafts from 1928 until her death in 1980, Turner ...
Holmes, Edith Lilla, b. 1893
Painter, she spent most of her life in Tasmania, but also exhibited in Melbourne where her work was popular in the 1930 and 1940s.
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Edwards, Mary, b. 1894
A painter and carver, Edwards has been remembered largely for her adversarial role in the Dobell trial of 1944. A flamboyant figure she lived later ...
McNamara, Leila Constance, b. 1894
Leila Constance McNamara (1894-1973), painter and teacher, active mainly in Adelaide, South Australia.
O'Grady, Gladys Yvette, b. 1894
Watercolour painter of birds, descendant of the artistic 'Thomas Flintoff' family from Grafton, NSW.
Lemaire, Mabel Daveney, b. 1895
Woodcarver and author, wrote 'The History of Australia in Wood Carvings,' published privately in about 1970. It was illustrated with photographs of her own wood ...
Mayo, Daphne, b. 1895
Stronger than the stone she carved, this widely collected female artist's promotion of the arts rivalled her international sculpting career, by setting up several bequests ...
Murray, Edith Constance, b. 1897
Puppeteer, was born Edith Constance Blackwell. She was a foundation member of the Puppetry Guild of NSW (later the Australian Puppetry Guild).
Bennett, Portia Mary, b. 1898
Portia Bennett trained at the Royal Art Society School under Dattilo Rubbo and then at the Julian Ashton Art school where she was friendly with ...
Evatt, Mary Alice, b. 1898
Artist, social activist, art collector and Trustee of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Evatt's best known work was an oil painting entitled 'Footballers' ...
Berndt, Eileen Constance Matilda, b. 1899
Painter and printmaker, Berndt studied variously under Grace Crowley, Anne Dangar, Dorrit Black and Adelaide Perry before relocating to London to study at the Central ...
Sweetapple, Dora, b. 1899
One of the three Burkitt sisters, who were active practitioners, teachers and patrons in the promotion of twentieth-century design in Sydney. Through her teaching and ...
Birmingham, Karna Marie, b. 1900
Karna Marie Birmingham was an illustrator of children's books and arguably may have been more widely acknowledged if she had not contracted an eye disease ...
Hall, Nancy Adrah, b. 1900
Sydney based painter, craftworker, designer and editor. In July 1924 she published the first issue of the magazine Undergrowth, which recognised many female artists of ...