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Plante, Ada, b. 1875
Plante studied at the Académie Julian, Paris, where she lived off little more than biscuits. She later emerged as Modernist, and in 1932 was a ...
Pole, Leon, b. 1871
Federation era painter, muralist and caricaturist. He died in Toronto on 31 December 1951.
Potts, Wal, b. 1888
Wal Potts was a proficient exponent of the watercolour medium which was, during the 1930s to the 1950s, favoured by Queensland artists. Potts excelled in ...
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Power, John Joseph Wardell, b. 1881
Painter, author, patron, philanthropist. After World War I he travelled to Europe and studied art where his abstract compositions reflect a life of leisure and ...
Pratt, Douglas
Lived in New South Wales but exhibited in Western Australia with the Perth Society of Artists.
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Preston, Margaret, b. 1875
Margaret Preston specialised in still life subjects, seeking to reinvent the genre, with inspiration from Aboriginal art and Australian native flowers, but she also made ...
Priestner, Wilfred, b. 1871
Wrought-iron craftsman and engineer. After he died in 1961, his family gave his old workshop as a museum to the City of Nedlands.
Prior, Bill
Mid 20th century Bulletin caricaturist and director.
Proctor, Thea, b. 1879
A well known and well loved Australian artist, Thea Proctor was prolific both as an artist and designer. A prominent figure in the art scene ...
Pryor, Oswald, b. 1881
Mid 20th century Moonta and Adelaide cartoonist. Pryor's last cartoon was published when he was 85.
Purves Smith, Peter, b. 1912
Mid 20th century modernist painter.
Pye, Mabel, b. 1894
Mabel Pye was a printmaker, the National Gallery of Australia currently holds eleven of her prints.
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Pyke, Guelda Esther Leah, b. 1905
Australian ceramist, jewellery and fashion designer who, after visits to Bali and training with George Bell, took up painting in the 1950s and worked in ...
Quayle, Jack, b.
Mid 20th century Hobart, Sydney and Adelaide cartoonist.
Quelhurst, Betty, b. 1919
Betty Quelhurst was a painter. She served in the Air Force for four years during World War Two. Having saved for years she was able ...
Quinlan, Hal
Mid 20th century Sydney illustrator and cartoonist. The Art Gallery of Western Australia was given 4 original Quinlan drawings.
Quinn, James, b. 1869
Painter and contemporary of George Coates, Charles Conder, Arthur Streeton and Tom Roberts, James Quinn spent a number of years studying in Paris as the ...
Rae, Iso, b. 1860
Critics have claimed that expatriate Isobel Rae 'carried her impressionist style too far'. Nevertheless, her paintings possessed a 'rare charm and poetry' combined with 'harmonious ...
Rafty, Tony, b. 1915
Caricaturist, cartoonist, illustrator, journalist and cartoon historian. Rafty joined the Sun Associated Newspapers group in 1940 but enlisted in the AIF in 1941.
Rayner, Hewitt Henry, b. 1902
Australian-born Hewitt Henry Rayner (1902-1957), went to England in 1923 and trained under Walter Richard Sickert at London's Royal Academy Schools. He produced more than ...