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* 1937, from 12 July: New Melbourne Art Club exhibition, Athenaeum Gallery<ref>'New Melbourne Art Club's Exhibition', The Age, Tuesday 13 Jul 1937, p.3</ref> |
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* 1939, 21 August – 2 September: New Melbourne Art Club Seventh Annual Show<ref>'New Melbourne Art Club: Seventh Annual Show,' ''The Age'' Tuesday 22 Aug 1939, p.11</ref> |
* 1939, 21 August – 2 September: New Melbourne Art Club Seventh Annual Show<ref>'New Melbourne Art Club: Seventh Annual Show,' ''The Age'' Tuesday 22 Aug 1939, p.11</ref> |
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* 1953, October: [[Flowerdale, Victoria|Flowerdale]] [[Country Women's Association|CWA]] annual exhibition<ref>The Age Saturday 24 Oct 1953, p.9</ref> |
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* 1954, November: Helen Ogilvie, [[Tate Adams]], Kenneth Hood, [[Victoria and Albert Museum]], London</ref>''The Age'' Friday 19 Nov 1954, p.4</ref> |
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Helen Elizabeth Ogilvie (4 May 1902, Corowa–1 August 1993, Melbourne) was a twentieth-century Australian artist and gallery director, cartoonist, painter, printmaker and craftworker, best known for her early linocuts and woodcuts, and her later oil paintings of vernacular colonial buildings.
Early life and education
Ogilvie was born in Corowa and grew up in rural New South Wales where she would go sketching with her mother, Henrietta, a watercolourist, before her family moved to Melbourne in 1920. There Helen attended the National Gallery School in 1922-25. Though she did not enjoy its conservative approach, in her last year her style was influenced by George Bell where he briefly was the drawing master.[1][2] While at the School she became a member of the Melbourne Society of Women Painters and Sculptors and started exhibiting in 1924.[3]
Career
Inspired by seeing a book of Claude Flight’s Modernist linocuts in 1928,[4] Ogilvie produced many linocuts and woodcuts from the 1930s onwards,[5] and subsequently, wood-engravings. Many were exhibited, but in an effort to survive in the Depression years she also produced bookplates, greeting cards, calendars,[6] and later, illustrations for books including Russell Grimwade’s Flinders Lane: recollections of Alfred Felton (Melbourne University Press,Carlton, 1947)[7] and J.D.G. Medley's Stolne and surreptitious verses (Melbourne University Press, Carlton, 1952).
During WW2 Ogilvie worked in the Red Cross Rehabilitation Service at Heidelberg Military Hospital under Frances Wade, where she taught patients lino- and wood-cutting, and basketmaking using locally-harvested European and Australian native rushes.[8][9][10]
Gallerist
After the war, in 1948 Ogilvie, assisted by Helen Biggs, set up a school to train handicrafts instructors for Red Cross occupational therapy services.[11]
In late 1949 she became director of Stanley Coe Gallery at 435 Bourke Street, Melbourne,[12] for the period until 1955, and organised a program of exhibitions of the avant-garde;[13] John Brack,[14] Margo Lewers, Leonard French (who showed his Illiad series, amongst his earliest experiments with enamel house paint on Masonite, October 1952),[15] Inge King,[16] Arthur Boyd (15–24 September 1953), Charles Blackman, whose radical series of schoolgirl paintings were shown there in May 1953, Ludwig Hirschfeld Mack (whose first Australian show in a commercial gallery was there in 1953), Helen Maudsley, Clifton Pugh,[17] Michael Shannon and others. The opening show in February 1950 of a group twenty Victorian artists associated with George Bell, whose work was also shown, included Alan Warren, Alan Sumner, Constance Stokes, Roger Kemp, William Frater, Charles Bush, Daryl Lindsay, Phyl Waterhouse, Ada May Plante, Francis Roy Thompson, and Arnold Shore,[18] and was followed by a show, also of contemporary art, from Sydney.
Work by Ogilvie was among others selected in 1950 to decorate the liner Oronsay[19]
London
In 1956 she moved to London where she was engaged with the Crafts Revival of the 1950s and 60s, and made a living designing cutting edge lampshades in London for a period. She began to paint small studies of Australian rural buildings, holding two successful solo exhibitions of them in London.
Return to Australia and late career
Ogilvie returned to Australia in 1963 where the subjects of her paintings and drawings continued to be humble rural buildings which she was aware were disappearing. By the late 1970s she was producing little work but remained interested in the art world. She attended her last solo exhibition opened at aGOG (Australian Girls' Own Gallery), Canberra, on her 89th birthday, 4 May 1991.
Ogilvie died suddenly in Melbourne on 1 August 1993.
Exhibitions
Solo
- 1948, May: Exhibition of watercolour drawings[20]
- 1963 Leicester Galleries, Mayfair, London[21]
- 1974, 2–13 June: Leveson Street Gallery, Melbourne.[22]
Group
- 1924, 18-27 November: An Exhibition Of Etchings & Drawings, with Hans Heysen, John D. Moor, Lionel Lindsay, John Goodchild, John L. Berry, Frank H. Molony, R. J. Waterhouse, Fred. C. Brltten, Lloyd Rees, d’A. Boxall, J. Barclay Godson, Arthur Reed, H. Van Raake, B. E. Minns, Harold D. Herbert, James S. MacDonald, Norman Carter, Thea Proctor, Alfred T. Clint, Margaret Preston, A. Henry Fullwood, Raymond H. McGrath, Don Finley, Hamilton Mack, Adrian Feint, F. M. Grey, Montague White, Audrey Hardy, K. Sauerbier, Professor Leslie Wilkinson, Hardy Wilson, Daryl Lindsay, Sydney Ure Smith.[3] Exhibition Hall, Sixth Floor, Farmer & Company, department store, cnr. Pitt, Market & George Streets, Sydney
- 1932, 5-16 April: with Sybil Andrews, Cyril Power, Ethel Spowers, Eveline Syme, Eric Thake, John Dick, Christian Waller, Dorrit Block, Ron Meadows, Marjorie Wood, Michael O’Connell. Everyman’s Library, 332 Collins Street[23]
- 1932, to 29 October: Helen Ogilvie, Peggie Crombie, Helen Boyd, paintings and prints. Collins House, Melbourne.[24]
- 1933, 16-23 October: The Arts and Crafts Society Annual Exhibition, Melbourne Town Hall[25]
- 1936, 14–25 July: New Melbourne Art Club exhibition, Athenaeum Gallery[26]
- 1937, from 12 July: New Melbourne Art Club exhibition, Athenaeum Gallery[27]
- 1939, 21 August – 2 September: New Melbourne Art Club Seventh Annual Show[28]
- 1953, October: Flowerdale CWA annual exhibition[29]
- 1954, November: Helen Ogilvie, Tate Adams, Kenneth Hood, Victoria and Albert Museum, London</ref>The Age Friday 19 Nov 1954, p.4</ref>
Collections
- Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, WA
- Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston, TAS
- Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart, TAS
- Castlemaine Art Gallery and Historical Museum, Castlemaine, VIC[30]
- Benalla Art Gallery, Benalla, VIC
- City of Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Ballarat, VIC
- University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC
- La Trobe Collection, State Library of Victoria, Melbourne, VIC[31]
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, VIC[32]
- National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT[33]
- Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia[34]
- Queensland Art Gallery[35]
- Ian Potter Museum of Art, the University of Melbourne, VIC[36]
- Cruthers Collection of Women’s Art at the University of Western Australia[37]
Publications
Maxwell, Helen (1995), Helen Ogilvie : Wood engravings, Brindabella Press, ISBN 978-0-909422-24-0
References
- ^ Sheridan Palmer, All this I knew: Helen Ogilvie retrospective exhibition, Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, 1995, pp. 1–2
- ^ Amelia Saward, 'Helen Ogilvie: Australian modernism and a changing sense of place,' in Younger, Gavin (2019-07-17). "Issue 23, December 2018". Museums and Collections. Retrieved 2020-10-12.
- ^ a b Advertisement, The Sydney Morning Herald, Tue, Nov 18, 1924, p.6
- ^ Maxwell, Helen (1995). "Helen Elizabeth Ogilvie biography". Design and Art Australia Online.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ Ogilvie, Helen, 1902-1993. (1995). Wood engravings. Canberra: Brindabella Press. ISBN 0-909422-24-9. OCLC 38359628.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ The Age, Tuesday 26 Dec 1933, p.5
- ^ 'The story of a benefactor', The Sydney Morning Herald Saturday, 10 Jan 1948, p.8
- ^ "Interesting People". The Australian Women's Weekly. Vol. 10, , no. 45. Australia, Australia. 10 April 1943. p. 14. Retrieved 12 October 2020 – via National Library of Australia.
{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link) - ^ 'Craftwork for soldiers,' The Age Saturday, 14 Nov 1942, p.4
- ^ 'Rushes ready for basketmaking,' The Age Tuesday 28 Dec 1943, p.3
- ^ 'Handcrafts school to open,' The Age Tuesday 20 Jan 1948, p.5
- ^ 'New gallery' The Age Wednesday 07 Dec 1949, p.7
- ^ "Young people buy pictures". The Argus. No. 33, 031. Melbourne. 16 July 1952. p. 6 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ Shore, Arnold (1955). 'Artist stresses human values'. (8 March 1955). The Argus (Melbourne, Victoria: 1848– 1957), p. 13. Retrieved 8 July 2015, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article71637449
- ^ Johnson, George & Heathcote, C. R. (Christopher Robin) & Zimmer, Jenny, (editor.) (2006). George Johnson : world view. South Yarra, Vic. Macmillan Art Publishing
- ^ Inge King's art has "the gadget air". (21 October 1952). The Argus (Melbourne, Victoria: 1848–1957), p. 5. Retrieved 8 July 2015, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article23217241
- ^ "Four art styles". The Argus. Melbourne. 21 June 1955. p. 9 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ 'Show by twenty Victorian artists,' The Age Tuesday 14 Feb 1950, p.2
- ^ 'Australian art will decorate new Oronsay,' The Sydney Morning Herald Thursday 26 Oct 1950, p.6
- ^ The AgeWednesday, 19 May 1948, p.5
- ^ catalogue, Helen Ogilvie: Australian country dwellings, London: Leicester Galleries, 1963
- ^ Ogilvie, Helen; Leveson Street Gallery (1974), Helen Ogilvie, Leveson Street Gallery
- ^ ’Designs in Lino Cut’, The Age, Tue, Apr 5, 1932, p.8
- ^ 'Exhibition at Collins House,' The Age, Tue, Oct 25, 1932, p.5
- ^ 'The Arts and Crafts Society: Annual Exhibition,' The Age, Monday 16 Oct 1933, p.5
- ^ 'The modern spirit,' The Age, Tuesday 14 Jul 1936, p.9
- ^ 'New Melbourne Art Club's Exhibition', The Age, Tuesday 13 Jul 1937, p.3
- ^ 'New Melbourne Art Club: Seventh Annual Show,' The Age Tuesday 22 Aug 1939, p.11
- ^ The Age Saturday 24 Oct 1953, p.9
- ^ "OGILVIE, Helen (1902-1993) – Collection :: Castlemaine Art Gallery". collection.castlemainegallery.com. Retrieved 2020-10-13.
- ^ "Helen Ogilvie works, State Library of Victoria". search.slv.vic.gov.au. Retrieved 2020-10-13.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Helen OGILVIE | Artists | NGV". www.ngv.vic.gov.au. Retrieved 2020-10-13.
- ^ "Helen Ogilvie: NGA collection search results". artsearch.nga.gov.au. Retrieved 2020-10-13.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Helen Ogilvie :: The Collection :: Art Gallery NSW". www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au. Retrieved 2020-10-13.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Helen Ogilvie works". collection.qagoma.qld.gov.au. Retrieved 2020-10-13.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Ogilvie works in the collection, Ian Potter Museum search". storeroom.its.unimelb.edu.au. Retrieved 2020-10-13.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Helen Ogilvie works - search". www.uwaccwa.uwa.edu.au. Retrieved 2020-10-13.
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