Lucy Newell

Lucy Newell
Born29 September 1906
Castlemaine, Victoria
Died22 May 1987 (aged 80)
Woodend, Victoria
EducationNational Gallery School
Known forPainting, Textile printing

Lucy Colgate Newell (29 September 1906 – 22 May 1987) was an Australian artist noted for painting and textile printing.[1]

Biography

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Newell was born in 1906 in Castlemaine, Victoria to artist Alice Newell[1] and her husband Lt. Colonel Francis Sargent Newell, a solicitor.[2] She was educated at St Catherine's School and took Saturday morning art classes at Castlemaine Technical School with Miss Naples.[3] She later did classes in watercolour painting one afternoon a week with Miss Ethel Crook of Bendigo.[3] Newell studied at the National Gallery School for five years under Bernard Hall but found she didn't much enjoy portraiture or oil painting,[3] and instead took up textile printing with linocut on cotton fabric.[3]

Her mother Alice was a co-founder of the Castlemaine Art Museum[4] with whom Newell later exhibited in 1971[5] and which holds her artwork in their collection.[6] She also has work in the National Gallery of Australia's collection[7] and at Buda Historic Home & Garden.[8]

Newell briefly had to give up artistic pursuits to care for her elderly parents, but spent ten years in Woodend creating work she wanted to do.[3] She died there on 22 May 1987.[1][9]

References

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  1. ^ a b c "Lucy Newell". Australian Prints and Printmaking. Centre for Australian Art. Archived from the original on 7 February 2023. Retrieved 14 October 2020.
  2. ^ "Alice Newell". People Australia. National Centre of Biography at the Australian National University. Archived from the original on 15 October 2023. Retrieved 14 October 2020.
  3. ^ a b c d e "Newell, Lucy (1906-)". Trove. Archived from the original on 15 October 2023. Retrieved 14 October 2020.
  4. ^ Miller, Jane (31 August 2020). "A turn around the garden: Victorian flora in the State collection". State Library Victoria. Archived from the original on 8 March 2023. Retrieved 15 October 2020.
  5. ^ "Lucy Newell (1906-87) Australia". Australian Art Auction Records. Archived from the original on 15 October 2023. Retrieved 15 October 2020.
  6. ^ "Gallery Collection - Works by Newell, Lucy (1906-1987)". Castlemaine Art Gallery. Archived from the original on 14 May 2021. Retrieved 15 October 2023.
  7. ^ Newell, Lucy. "Food cover". Item held by National Gallery of Australia. Retrieved 15 October 2020.
  8. ^ "The Collection - Domestic items and personal effects - Decorative arts". Buda Historic Home & Garden. Archived from the original on 15 October 2023. Retrieved 15 October 2020.
  9. ^ "Search Results: Lucy Colgate Newell". Public Record Office Victoria. Archived from the original on 15 October 2023. Retrieved 15 October 2020.
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