Advanced Search
148 results for … adjust search
Results
Vibert, Philip Henry, b. 1861
Cabinetmaker who was apprenticed to Henry Bridge in 1881. He had his own cabinetmaking business in Fitzgerald Street Perth by 1916. Here he had a ...
Rischbieth, Bessie Mabel, b. 1874
An early activist for womens' rights, a theosophist and life long feminist, Bessie Mabel Rischbieth was a well known figure in Perth. Her early training ...
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 ...
Lutz, Agnes Gray, b. 1881
Agnes Gray Lutz was a potter, china painter, and painter based in Western Australia.
O'Reilly, Maud, b. 1886
Maud O'Reilly was one of L.J. Harvey's students who furthered her skills by studying wheelthrowing and glazing when she visited London in 1925. She made ...
Menz, Eugene Muriel, b. 1887
Menz commenced painting c.1918 and learnt her china painting from the Misses Creeth. She exhibited china painting with the West Australian Society of Arts in ...
Cross, Stan, b. 1888
Significant mid 20th century newspaper comic strip artist. Created 'Wally and the Major', 'The Potts' and 'For gorsake, stop laughing: this is serious!'.
Landells, Flora Annie Margaret, b. 1888
Flora Landells was born in 1888 in Adelaide. She was a successful painter and potter and did much to encourage an interest in pottery in ...
Lander, Cyril George, b. 1892
Cyril George Lander was born in 1892. He was a painter, cabinetmaker and restorer of antique furniture. He was made a Fellow of the Royal ...
Bastin, Henri, b. 1896
Bastin emerged in the 1950s as a key figure in Australian primitive/naive art.
Blumann, Elise, b. 1897
A student at the Berlin Academy of Art under German Impressionist Max Liebermann, Blumann fled Nazi Germany in 1938, she and her husband settling in ...
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 ...
Stubbs, Alan James Arland, b. 1898
Painter who had fourteen exhibitions in Perth between 1946 and 1973. He was an artilleryman in the World War I and when the World War ...
Burtenshaw, Rowland, b. 1899
Designer who also taught silver-smithing and metalwork in the new post-war courses at Fremantle Technical School.
Chappell, Ellen Eva, b. 1899
Ellen Eva Chappell was born in 1899. She exhibited with the Western Australian Women Painters' and Applied Arts Society in 1939. Chappell was a member ...
Bates, Vera, b. 1901
Painter who was the president of the Western Australian Women's' Society of Fine Arts and Crafts in 1957-58.
Matier, Robert Alexander, b. 1901
Western Australian painter who was awarded The Claude Hotchin Prize for Watercolour three times in 1958, 1968 and 1970.
Greenhalgh, Audrey, b. 1903
A largely self-taught artist best known for her oil paintings of natural subjects, most often the sea. Her interest in abstraction meant her work in ...