Ethel spowers lino prints Born in , Ethel Spowers was a modern woman living and working in the modern age of the s and s. As a female artist she had to struggle with gender bias and divide. Women artists were not unheard of but were not taken as seriously as male artists.
Ethel spowers artworks Ethel Louise Spowers (11 July – 5 May ) was an Australian artist associated with the Grosvenor School of Modern Art in London. She was especially known for her linocuts, which are included in the collections of major Australian and British Art Galleries.
Ethel Spowers is now recognised Ethel Louise Spowers (), painter and printmaker, was born on 11 July at South Yarra, Melbourne, second of six children of William George Lucas Spowers, a newspaper proprietor from New Zealand, and his London-born wife Annie Christina, née Westgarth. Allan Spowers was her only brother. She was educated at the Church of England.
Ethel Louise Spowers (1890-1947), painter and printmaker, was born on 11 July at South Yarra, Melbourne, second of the six children of William George Lucas Spowers, part-owner of the Argus newspaper, and Annie Christina, daughter of the Victorian historian William Westgarth.
Ethel Louise Spowers was an Biography ( words) painter and printmaker, was born on 11 July at South Yarra, Melbourne, second of the six children of William George Lucas Spowers, part-owner of the Argus newspaper, and Annie Christina, daughter of the Victorian historian William Westgarth.
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November , first work acquired by a public art gallery/museum. ‘The Kite’ (), Art Gallery of New South Wales (then National Art Gallery of New South Wales), Sydney. July-August , first work acquired by an international public art gallery/museum. In their pioneering coloured Catalogue Details Ethel Spowers The Battle oil on canvas x cmsigned and dated lower rightinscribed on frame verso Provenance Private collection Exhibited Melbourne, Melbourne, Literature / Referenced Young, Blamire, 'Changing Outlook of Modern Art,' The Herald, Melbourne, 30 July Coppel, Stephen, Linocuts of the Machine Age: Claude Flight and the Grosvenor School.
Biography (791 words). painter and Ethel Spowers was a highly accomplished painter, printmaker, illustrator, and author. The following list of works is a compilation of exhibition catalogues and identification of works held in private and publication collections.