Eveline Winifred Syme
Eveline Syme (26 October 1888 – 6 June 1961) was an Australian artist associated with the Grosvenor School of Modern Art, and an advocate for women's post-secondary education.
Early life
Eveline Winifred Syme was born in
Career
Syme studied art in Paris with M. Denis at
By the following year Syme was back in Melbourne, exhibiting and speaking about modern printmaking.[6] Along with Spowers she was associated with George Bell's "Contemporary Art Group." Late in life, she was on the executive committee of the National Gallery Society of Victoria.[7]
Syme was also involved in efforts during the 1930s to build a women's college at the University of Melbourne, and served as president of the University Women's College council in the 1940s.[8]
Syme died in 1961, age 72. She was buried at
References
- ^ Stephen Coppel, "Syme, Eveline Winifred (1888–1961)", Australian Dictionary of Biography(2002).
- ISBN 0-522-84478-2.
- ^ Felicity St. John Moore, "Eveline Syme, 'Tennis and Tea,'" in Lesley Harding and Sue Cramer, eds., Cubism and Australian Art(Miegunyah Press 2009): 107.
- ^ Stephen Coppel, Linocuts of the Machine Age: Claude Flight and the Grosvenor School (Scolar Press 1995).
- ISBN 9781741740974.
- ^ Art Gallery NSW, "Works by Eveline Syme"
- ^ J ane Hyltton, Modern Australian Women: Paintings and Prints, 1925-1945 (Art Gallery of South Australia 2000).
- ^ E. I. Lothian and Eveline Syme, University Women's College, University of Melbourne: A Brief History (University of Melbourne 1954).
- ^ "Eveline Winifred Syme," Brighton Cemetery Historic Interments, http://brightoncemetery.com/HistoricInterments/150Names/symee.htm Archived 30 March 2012 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Women Artists. Works From the Permanent Collection" catalogue, University Gallery, The University of Melbourne, July 26 - August 30 1983. Page 13. Art and Artists Files, held in the National Gallery of Australia Research and Archive Collection.
External links
Eveline Winifred Syme [Australian art and artists file], State Library Victoria