For the American poet and education with a similar name, see Rhoza A. Walker.
Rose A. Walker (1900) News from the Front, watercolour, 61.5 x 96.3 cm, Castlemaine Art Museum
Watercolour painting of sailboats by Rose A. Walker
Yachts on bay, 1924, State Library Victoria

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]

Bendigo Art Gallery displayed her narrative painting, a watercolour, News from the Front, in its Victorian Gold Jubilee exhibition of 1901-1902, and its subsequent purchase from admission fees and art union was debated in a drawn-out selection process of elimination over April–June 1902,[4] in which it remained the only work by a woman and in competition against eight notables including Gustave Doré, Rupert Bunney, Julian Ashton and J. Ford Patterson.[5] Ultimately the Gallery purchased the large Doré Joseph's Flight Into Egypt.[6][7] News from the Front was shown as a non-competitive entry in the Australian Exhibition of Women's Work and gifted by the artist to Castlemaine Art Museum in 1940.[8]

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.[9]

References

  1. ^ "Members". Twenty Melbourne Painters Society Inc. 24 July 2017. Retrieved 8 April 2018.
  2. ^ a b "Walker, , Rose A. (1879-1942)". Trove. National Library of Australia. Retrieved 9 April 2018.
  3. ^ a b c "Rose A. Walker b. 1879". Design & Art Australia Online (DAAO). Retrieved 9 April 2018.
  4. ^ "The Bendigo Advertiser". Bendigo Advertiser. Vol. L, no. 14, 580. Victoria, Australia. 22 April 1902. p. 2. Retrieved 14 January 2025 – via National Library of Australia.
  5. ^ "Bendigo Art Gallery". Bendigo Advertiser. Vol. L, no. 14, 622. Victoria, Australia. 10 June 1902. p. 4. Retrieved 14 January 2025 – via National Library of Australia.
  6. ^ "Bendigo". The Argus (Melbourne). No. 17, 594. Victoria, Australia. 2 December 1902. p. 6. Retrieved 14 January 2025 – via National Library of Australia.
  7. ^ Gustave, Doré (1875). "Joseph's Flight into Egypt". Bendigo Art Gallery Collection. Retrieved 14 January 2025.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  8. ^ Walker, Rose A. (1900). "News from the Front". Castlemaine Art Museum Online Collection. Retrieved 14 January 2025.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  9. ^ "Towards Perth: Western Australian Women Artists Before 1950". Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery. The University of Western Australia. Retrieved 9 April 2018.
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