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
Yachts on bay, 1924, State Library Victoria

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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