Elsie Barlow

Elsie Frederica Barlow (1876 – 15 November 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]

Elsie Barlow
Born
Elsie Frederica Hake

1876 (1876)
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Died1948 (aged 71–72)
Mentone, Victoria, Australia
NationalityAustralian
Known forPainting, Printmaking
Spouse(s)
Arthur Barlow
(
m. 1901⁠–⁠1917)

Biography

Elsie Frederica Barlow née Hake was born in 1876[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 a private hospital in Mentone, Victoria on 15 November 1948.[4][5]

Legacy

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

Hacke Place in the Canberra suburb of Conder is named in her honour and that of her older sister Dora, the misspelling of their maiden name being gazetted in 1988.[6]

References
  1. "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.
  5. "Obituary". Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957). 20 November 1948. p. 5. Retrieved 8 January 2020.
  6. "National Memorial Ordinance 1928 Determination of Nomenclature Australian Capital Territory National Memorials Ordinance 1928 Determination of Nomenclature". Commonwealth of Australia Gazette. Periodic (National : 1977 - 2011). 31 August 1988. p. 1. Retrieved 8 January 2020.
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