Rose A. Walker Explained

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]

Biography

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]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Members. Twenty Melbourne Painters Society Inc. 24 July 2017. 8 April 2018.
  2. Web site: Walker,, Rose A. (1879-1942). Trove. National Library of Australia. 9 April 2018.
  3. Web site: Rose A. Walker b. 1879. Design & Art Australia Online (DAAO).. 9 April 2018.
  4. Web site: Towards Perth: Western Australian Women Artists Before 1950. Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery. The University of Western Australia. 9 April 2018.