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Jones, Cat, b. 1900
Skinner, Rose, b. 1900
Rose Skinner was an art-dealer. She ran Skinner Galleries in Perth.
Sherwood, Gwen, b. 1904
Playwright and actor Gwen Sherwood worked as Clerk at the then National Art Gallery of New South Wales during the 1940s. In mid 1944 Sherwood, ...
Lucas, Theo, b. 1905
Melbourne based gallery and café manager who was also active in anti-censorship and other civil liberty campaigns during the 1930s
Langer, Gertrude, b. 1908
In 1939 Karl and Gertrude Langer came to Australia as refugees from Vienna. Her subsequent career as both a critic for the Courier-Mail, a collector, ...
Hoff, Ursula, b. 1909
Hoff took a Doctorate in Hamburg, Germany and in Australia, she became assistant curator, Prints and Drawings, National Gallery of Australia. By 1949, she was ...
Fletcher, Marion, b. 1910
Fletcher trained at the Edinburgh College of Art, arriving in Australia in 1947. She worked as a textile designer with Vida Turner, Melbourne, later teaching ...
Coleman, Alannah, b. 1918
A painter, Coleman was known as the 'beautiful victim' member of the Victorian Contemporary Art Society.
Scheinberg, Gisella , b. 1921
Scheinberg was the principal of the Holdsworth Galleries, Woollahra, Sydney. The Holdsworth opened in 1969 and closed in 1995-96 on her retirement. Her papers associated ...
Tuckson, Margaret, b. 1921
Tuckson was a potter working first in low-fired earthenware. She expanded her interest to Papua New Guinea ceramic traditions publishing "The Traditional Pottery of Papau ...
Boddington, Jennie, b. 1922
Jennie Boddington was the first curator of photography to be appointed in Australia. She was responsible for the National Gallery of Victoria's photography collection from ...
Just, Verlie, b. 1922
Just, described as Queensland's first contemporary jeweller, established 'The Verlie Just Town Gallery and Japan Room' in 1973 in Brisbane, Queensland. She was one of ...
Bennett, Dorothy, b. 1923
Dorothy Bennett was introduced to Aboriginal art when she was a medical secretary accompanying Dr Stuart Scougall on an excursion to the Northern Territory. She ...
Beaver, Betty, b. 1924
Owner of Beaver Galleries (est 1975), Canberra and a pioneer of craft-based exhibitions in the ACT. She studied design with Derek Wrigley at Canberra Technical ...
Taft-Hendry, Senta, b. 1924
Taft-Hendry was initially an art collector, later opening Galleries Primitiff, Woollahra in 1959, touring works from Papua New Guinea internationally in the 1960s. She formed ...
McGilchrist, Erica, b. 1926
A painter, illustrator, dancer and teacher - taught painting at Kew Mental Hospital, was significant in the women's movement, and has had over 40 solo ...
Banfield, Audray, b. 1931
Churcher, Betty, b. 1931
Betty Churcher, who was the first woman to head both a state and national art gallery, had an extraordinary career in arts education and administration ...
Bolster, Margaret, b. 1932
Bolster founded the Aladdin Gallery, Elizabeth Bay, Sydney with Thomas Bolster in 1964 (some sources cite 1967). The gallery exhibited work from Asia and the ...
Wrobel, Elinor, b. 1933
Wrobel was a private gallery curator (Woolloomooloo Art Gallery ) and collector working with her partner Fred Wrobel until his death. In 2003, she created ...