Rose A. Walker

Rose A. Walker (1879–1942), was an Australian painter and miniaturist. She was a founding member of the Twenty Melbourne Painters Society.[1]

Rose A. Walker
Born1879 (1879)
Walhalla, Victoria, Australia
Died1942 (aged 62–63)
NationalityAustralian
EducationBendigo School of Mines
Known forPainting
Spouse(s)George Hartrick

Biography

Walker was born in Walhalla in 1879.[2] She attended the Bendigo School of Mines where she studied under Arthur T. Woodward. She then moved to Melbourne where she studied with Max Meldrum.[3]

Walker exhibited her work around Melbourne at the Victorian Artists Society, and the Athenaeum Gallery. She showed her work under the name "Mrs George Hartrick" after she wed.[3]

She was a member of the Victorian Artists Society, the Twenty Melbourne Painters Society and the Melbourne Society of Women Painters and Sculptors.[3]

She died in 1942.[2]

In 2013 Walker was included in the exhibition Towards Perth: Western Australian Women Artists Before 1950 at the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery in Crawley, Australia.[4]

References
  1. "Members". Twenty Melbourne Painters Society Inc. Retrieved 8 April 2018.
  2. "Walker, , Rose A. (1879-1942)". Trove. National Library of Australia. Retrieved 9 April 2018.
  3. "Rose A. Walker b. 1879". Design & Art Australia Online (DAAO). Retrieved 9 April 2018.
  4. "Towards Perth: Western Australian Women Artists Before 1950". Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery. The University of Western Australia. Retrieved 9 April 2018.
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