Lucy Newell Explained
Lucy Colgate Newell (29 September 1906 – 22 May 1987) was an Australian artist noted for painting and textile printing.[1]
Biography
Newell was born in 1906 in Castlemaine, Victoria to artist Alice Newell 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. Newell studied at the National Gallery School for five years under Bernard Hall but found she didn't much enjoy portraiture or oil painting, and instead took up textile printing with linocut on cotton fabric.
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. She died there on 22 May 1987.[9]
References
- Web site: Lucy Newell . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20230207075107/https://www.printsandprintmaking.gov.au/artists/10568/ . 7 February 2023 . 14 October 2020 . Australian Prints and Printmaking . Centre for Australian Art . en.
- Web site: Alice Newell . live . https://archive.today/20231015232121/https://peopleaustralia.anu.edu.au/biography/newell-alice-18939 . 15 October 2023 . 14 October 2020 . People Australia . National Centre of Biography at the Australian National University.
- Web site: Newell, Lucy (1906-) . live . https://archive.today/20231015232611/https://trove.nla.gov.au/people/1484155 . 15 October 2023 . 14 October 2020 . Trove.
- Web site: Miller . Jane . 31 August 2020 . A turn around the garden: Victorian flora in the State collection . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20230308192852/https://blogs.slv.vic.gov.au/our-stories/ask-a-librarian/flora-of-victoria/ . 8 March 2023 . 15 October 2020 . . en-US.
- Web site: Lucy Newell (1906-87) Australia . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20231015233235/https://www.artrecord.com/index.cfm/artist/7868-newell-lucy/ . 15 October 2023 . 15 October 2020 . Australian Art Auction Records.
- Web site: Gallery Collection - Works by Newell, Lucy (1906-1987) . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20210514031645/https://collection.castlemainegallery.com/artist/n/newell-lucy/ . 14 May 2021 . 15 October 2023 . Castlemaine Art Gallery.
- Web site: Newell. Lucy. Food cover. 2020-10-15. Item held by National Gallery of Australia.
- Web site: The Collection - Domestic items and personal effects - Decorative arts . live . https://archive.today/20231015234334/https://budacastlemaine.org/explore-buda/the-collection/ . 15 October 2023 . 15 October 2020 . . en-US.
- Web site: Search Results: Lucy Colgate Newell . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20231015234050/https://prov.vic.gov.au/search_journey/select?keywords=lucy%20colgate%20newell . 15 October 2023 . 15 October 2020 . Public Record Office Victoria.
External links
Australian art and artists file, State Library Victoria