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Leviny, Hilda, b. 1883
Artist,woodcarver, embroiderer and college house matron. The youngest of the Leviny sisters.
Orban, Desiderius, b. 1884
Desiderius Orban came to Australia from Hungary as a refugee from Hitler's European invasion. His intuitive modernist approach was especially reflected in his practice as ...
Wells, Samuel Garnet, b. 1885
Popular political and sporting cartoonist who worked predominantly in Melbourne, Victoria. A number of his cartoons from the 1920s-50s are in the collection of the ...
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 ...
Wakelin, Roland, b. 1887
Modernist painter, Roland Wakelin, was born in New Zealand in 1887. He moved to Sydney, Australia in 1912 where he studied under Antonio Dattilo Rubbo ...
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!'.
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 ...
Fairweather, Ian, b. 1891
The Scottish born artist Ian Fairweather travelled extensively throughout South East Asia and China before finally building a thatched hut on Bribie Island off the ...
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 ...
Hawkins, Weaver, b. 1893
One of the great advocates for contemporary art in New South Wales. After he was left on the Western Front in World War I, he ...
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.
Wenban, Raymond Stewart, b. 1893
Mid 20th century Sydney, Melbourne and London illustrator, painter and printmaker, Wenban studied art with Julian Ashton and Elioth Gruner. In 1954 he was one ...
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 ...
Kemble, Herbert, b. 1894
Mid 20th century painter and illustrator originally from New Zealand. He came to Sydney in 1920 and from 1941 he worked as a newspaper and ...
McNamara, Leila Constance, b. 1894
Leila Constance McNamara (1894-1973), painter and teacher, active mainly in Adelaide, South Australia.