Lucy Newell | |
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Born | 29 September 1906 Castlemaine, Victoria |
Died | 22 May 1987 (aged 80) Woodend, Victoria |
Education | National Gallery School |
Known for | Painting, Textile printing |
Lucy Colgate Newell (29 September 1906 – 22 May 1987) was an Australian artist noted for painting and textile printing. [1]
Newell was born in 1906 in Castlemaine, Victoria to artist Alice Newell [1] and her husband Lt. Colonel Francis Sargent Newell, a solicitor. [2] She was educated at St Catherine's School and took Saturday morning art classes at Castlemaine Technical School with Miss Naples. [3] She later did classes in watercolour painting one afternoon a week with Miss Ethel Crook of Bendigo. [3] Newell studied at the National Gallery School for five years under Bernard Hall but found she didn't much enjoy portraiture or oil painting, [3] and instead took up textile printing with linocut on cotton fabric. [3]
Her mother Alice was a co-founder of the Castlemaine Art Museum [4] with whom Newell later exhibited in 1971 [5] and which holds her artwork in their collection. [6] She also has work in the National Gallery of Australia's collection [7] and at Buda Historic Home & Garden. [8]
Newell briefly had to give up artistic pursuits to care for her elderly parents, but spent ten years in Woodend creating work she wanted to do. [3] She died there on 22 May 1987. [1] [9]
Lucy Newell | |
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Born | 29 September 1906 Castlemaine, Victoria |
Died | 22 May 1987 (aged 80) Woodend, Victoria |
Education | National Gallery School |
Known for | Painting, Textile printing |
Lucy Colgate Newell (29 September 1906 – 22 May 1987) was an Australian artist noted for painting and textile printing. [1]
Newell was born in 1906 in Castlemaine, Victoria to artist Alice Newell [1] and her husband Lt. Colonel Francis Sargent Newell, a solicitor. [2] She was educated at St Catherine's School and took Saturday morning art classes at Castlemaine Technical School with Miss Naples. [3] She later did classes in watercolour painting one afternoon a week with Miss Ethel Crook of Bendigo. [3] Newell studied at the National Gallery School for five years under Bernard Hall but found she didn't much enjoy portraiture or oil painting, [3] and instead took up textile printing with linocut on cotton fabric. [3]
Her mother Alice was a co-founder of the Castlemaine Art Museum [4] with whom Newell later exhibited in 1971 [5] and which holds her artwork in their collection. [6] She also has work in the National Gallery of Australia's collection [7] and at Buda Historic Home & Garden. [8]
Newell briefly had to give up artistic pursuits to care for her elderly parents, but spent ten years in Woodend creating work she wanted to do. [3] She died there on 22 May 1987. [1] [9]