Elsie Barlow

Elsie Barlow
Born Elsie Frederica Hake
1876 (1876)
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Died 1948 (aged 71–72)
Cheltenham, Victoria, Australia
Nationality Australian
Known for Painting, Printmaking
Spouse(s)
Arthur Barlow (m. 1901–1917)

Elsie Frederica Barlow (1876–1948), was an Australian painter and printmaker. She was a founding member of Twenty Melbourne Painters. She was also the first woman to have a solo exhibition in Castlemaine, Victoria.[1]

Biography

Elsie Frederica Barlow née Hake was born in 1869[2] in Melbourne, Australia.[1]

In 1894, Barlow enrolled at the Gallery School of Design where she was taught by Frederick McCubbin and Lindsay Bernard Hall. She attended the Gallery School with her sister Dora Serle.[1]

In 1901 she married Arthur Barlow, who died in 1917. They had three children, one of whom died a few months after birth.[1]

In 1912 Barlow held a one woman show at the Mechanics' Institute in Castlemaine, where she displayed 90 paintings. This led to the eventual creation of the Castlemaine Art Gallery.[1]

Barlow was a founding member of the Twenty Melbourne Painters Society.[3]

Barlow died in Cheltenham, Victoria in 1948.[1][4]

Legacy

Retrospectives of her works were held in 1977 (at the Castlemaine Art Gallery) and 1978 (at the Duvance Galleries) to honor her as one of the founders of the Castlemaine Art Gallery and Historic Museum.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "Elsie Frederica Barlow". Australian Art Gallery. Retrieved 31 March 2018.
  2. ↑ "Elsie Barlow b. 1876". Design & Art Australia Online (DAAO). Retrieved 1 April 2018.
  3. ↑ "Members". Twenty Melbourne Painters Society Inc. Retrieved 1 April 2018.
  4. ↑ "Elsie Barlow". Australian Prints + Printmaking. National Gallery of Australia. Retrieved 1 April 2018.
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