Ina Gregory

Georgina Alice Gregory (18 October 1874 – 5 June 1964) was an Australian artist.

Gregory was born on 18 October 1874 in East Melbourne to Alice (née Topp) and John Burslem Gregory, barrister-at-law.[1][2] She was the second of seven children. Her family was friendly with the Teague family, whose daughter Violet Teague also became a notable artist of the Heidelberg School of art.[3]

She attended the Melbourne School of Art (MSA) and Charterisville where she was taught by E. Phillips Fox and Tudor St. George Tucker.[4] At the MSA's annual exhibition in 1898 she was award first prize for a landscape painting, described in Table Talk as "venturesome choice of a group of bare trees breaking the foreground of her picture provided difficulty enough for the oldest artist".[5] Gregory subsequently became a member of the Victorian Artists' Society and regularly exhibited with them from 1898 to 1912.[6][7]

In 1916 Gregory was one of the Melbourne artists who volunteered to paint the portraits of children to raise funds for the French Red Cross.[8] A solo exhibition of 176 her artworks at the Melbourne Athenaeum was opened by Sir Robert Garran in April 1925 and received mixed reviews.[9][10] A joint exhibition with Jane Price in June 1942 was favourably reviewed, Harold Herbert reporting in the Argus that "Ina Gregory has caught the colour and has seen the decorative possibilities of autumn foliage ... and many of her panels of orchard blossoms are splendid".[11]

Legacy

Her work has been collected by the National Gallery of Australia[12] and National Gallery of Victoria.[13]

Ina Gregory Circuit in the Canberra suburb of Conder is named in her honour.[14]

References
  1. "Family Notices". Australasian (Melbourne, Vic. : 1864 - 1946). 24 October 1874. p. 24. Retrieved 9 January 2020.
  2. "Family Notices". Australasian (Melbourne, Vic. : 1864 - 1946). 23 March 1872. p. 26. Retrieved 9 January 2020.
  3. Hammond, V & Peers, J 1992, Completing the Picture: Women Artists and the Heidelberg Era, Artmores, Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia.
  4. "Ina Gregory, c 1895". National Portrait Gallery collection. Retrieved 9 January 2020.
  5. "Melbourne School of Art". Table Talk (Melbourne, Vic. : 1885 - 1939). 7 January 1898. p. 5. Retrieved 9 January 2020.
  6. "Victorian Artists' Society". Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957). 13 July 1901. p. 14. Retrieved 9 January 2020.
  7. "Ina Gregory, c 1895". National Portrait Gallery collection. Retrieved 9 January 2020.
  8. "Patriotic Efforts". Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954). 15 June 1916. p. 6. Retrieved 9 January 2020.
  9. "The Ladies' Page". Advocate (Melbourne, Vic. : 1868 - 1954). 30 April 1925. p. 26. Retrieved 9 January 2020.
  10. "Art Notes". Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954). 22 April 1925. p. 9. Retrieved 9 January 2020.
  11. "Romantic Paintings". Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957). 23 June 1942. p. 5. Retrieved 9 January 2020.
  12. Gregory, Ina. "Edith". Item held by National Gallery of Australia. Retrieved 9 January 2020.
  13. "Lucy Sutton by Ina Gregory". National Gallery of Victoria. Retrieved 9 January 2020.
  14. "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. 9. Retrieved 9 January 2020.
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