Amalie Sara Colquhoun

Amalie Sara Colquhoun (20 March 1894 – 16 June 1974) was an Australian landscape and portrait painter who is represented in national and state galleries. In addition to painting landscapes, portraits and still lifes, Colquhoun designed and supervised the construction of stained glass windows for three of Ballarat's churches, St Andrew's Kirk, Lydiard Street Uniting Church and Mount Pleasant Methodist Church. She studied in both Melbourne and Sydney, exhibited in England and Australia and taught in the school she started with her husband in Melbourne.[1]

Amalie Sara Colquhoun
Amalie Colquhoun in 1945
Born
Amalie Sara Field

(1894-03-20)20 March 1894
Murtoa, Victoria
Died16 June 1974(1974-06-16) (aged 80)
East Melbourne, Victoria
NationalityAustralian
Known forPainting, Educator
Spouse(s)
Archibald Colquhoun (m. 1931)

Biography

She was born Amalie Sara Field in Murtoa, a town in the Wimmera region of Victoria, Australia to parents Alfred Francis Field, a blacksmith, and Louisa Caroline, née Degenhardt, both Australian born. They moved to Ballarat in 1904 where Amalie studied drawing and design at the Ballarat Technical Art School, becoming the Art Mistress there in the mid-1920s. She continued to advance her career when the Victorian Education Department supported her study of pottery and stained glass at Sydney Technical College. On returning to Ballarat she started the teaching of pottery at the school. She continued her studies at the well-known Max Meldrum School in Melbourne. She also taught at Melbourne Technical College.[2]

Amalie Field married Archibald Colquhoun in 1931 and they had no children. She died on 16 June 1974 in East Melbourne and was buried in Boroondara cemetery, Kew, with Anglican rites.

Career

In 1927 she was appointed to the Working Men's College in Melbourne. In the same year Archibald Colquhoun started an art school in that city. Amalie Colquhoun was one of Archibald Colquhoun's students and married him in 1931. Up until the time they bought their property at Swinton in Kew, the Colquhouns lived in their Melbourne studios.

Colquhoun and her husband taught for many years and had portraits, landscape paintings, and reproductions of famous sculptures displayed on the walls of the school. Colquhoun was noted for her seascapes painted from their holiday house at Lorne, Victoria. Her husband's 1948 painting of her, Amalie Colquhoun, is in the Art Gallery of New South Wales.[3]

In 1950 the Colquhouns closed the school, and in 1954 moved from the city to Kew, establishing a studio and occasional gallery in their home. They continued to paint intensively, particularly landscapes and seascapes reflecting their travels.[4]

Honours

In 1949 Colquhoun was a finalist in the Archibald Prize with her work Rosa.[5]

References
  1. Perry, Peter W (2007). "Colquhoun, Archibald Douglas (Archie) (1894–1983)". Australian Dictionary of Biography.
  2. Campbell, Di (2005). "Amalie Sarah Feild-Colquhoun (1894-1974) Artist, SMB student and art mistress". Federation University.
  3. "Amalie and Archibald Colquhoun". julia ritson. 26 July 2011. Retrieved 19 March 2018.
  4. Goldsworthy, Val (March 2011). "Camberwell History" (PDF).
  5. "Archibald Prize finalists - 1949". Art Gallery of New South Wales. Retrieved 17 February 2018.

Bibliography
  • "Design and Art Australia Online." Amalie Sara Colquhoun: Biography at Design and Art Australia Online. DAAO, 1 Jan. 1995. Web. 27 Mar. 2017.

Further reading
  • P. and J. Perry, Max Meldrum and Associates (1996).
  • Rosalind Gowans, The Colquhoun family of artists, pg. 12, East Melbourne, Aug 2007-Sep 2007.
  • H. de Berg, interview with A. D. and A. Colquhoun (typescript, 1965, National Library of Australia).

See also
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