Rose A. Walker | |
Birth Place: | Walhalla, Victoria, Australia |
Nationality: | Australian |
Education: | Bendigo School of Mines |
Field: | Painting |
Spouse: | George Hartrick |
Rose A. Walker (1879–1942), was an Australian painter and miniaturist. She was a founding member of the Twenty Melbourne Painters Society.[1]
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]