Clara Southern ( English Clara Southern ; 1861 - 1940 ) - Australian artist, representative of the Heidelberg school . [2]
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Biography
Born October 3, 1861 in the city of Kyneton, Australian state of Victoria, in the family of John Southern and his wife Jane (née Elliott ), both from England.
She studied painting at the National Gallery of Victoria Art School with Frederick McCabbin and . While in Melbourne , she shared the studio with Jane Sutherland in the Grosvenor Chambers building, built specifically for artists, since 1888. By 1908, she founded an art community of young landscape painters from the city of Warrandyte in the town of Yarra , 30 kilometers from Melbourne. Community members were artists Penleigh Boyd and Harold Herbert .
On November 9, 1905, Clara Southern married John Arthur Flinn [3] , together they built a cottage, and then an art studio in a studio in Blythe Bank . Even after she got married and changed her surname, Clara continued to exhibit under her own name.
The artist was a member of the Victorian Society of Artists and the Australian Art Association , as well as the Melbourne Society of Women Painters and Sculptors , Twenty Melbourne Painters Society Inc and Lyceum Club .
Klara Southern was a tall woman with reddish hair and was nicknamed “Panther” for her physical flexibility. [four]
Died December 15, 1940 in Melbourne.
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 https://www.daao.org.au/bio/clara-south/
- ↑ Clara Southern :: biography at :: at Design and Art Australia Online . www.daao.org.au. Date of treatment March 17, 2018.
- ↑ Marriage Certificate . Births Deaths and Marriages Victoria . Date of treatment February 17, 2018.
- ↑ Duke, Anne. Australian Dictionary of Biography . - Canberra: National Center of Biography, Australian National University.