Elsie Frederica Barlow Australia, 1877-1948
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About Elsie Frederica Barlow
Born in Melbourne in 1876, She studied at the National Gallery School in Melbourne in the 1890s and had a studio with her sister Dora in Collins Street in the early 1900s. Elsie Barlow married the police magistrate in Castlemaine in 1901 and moved to that town, Exhibitions of her paintings in Castlemaine inspired the formation of the Castlemaine Art Gallery. The family moved back to Melbourne in 1916 and her husband died the following year. She set up a sudio in central Melbourne and held an exhibition of 76 paintings in 1919. She was a member of the Victorian Artist's Society and exhibtied with them from 1902 to 1921. She was also a member of the Twenty Melbourne Painters Group. She died in 1948. The Catlemaine Art Gallery held a restrospective of her work in 1977.
We have records of art auction sales by Elsie Barlow from 1978 and in total 53 works by the artist have been offered for sale, of which 43 (81%) were sold. The highest price recorded for the artist is $2,500 for My New Doll sold by Leonard Joel in July 1987. No works have been offered for sale this year, and the last sale we have recorded for the artist was in 2023.
Elsie Frederica Barlow is listed in the following standard biographical references:
- McCulloch, Alan McCulloch, Susan McCulloch, Emily McCulloch-Childs. The New McCulloch's Encyclopedia of Australian Art. 4th Edition, Aus Art Melbourne & The Miegunyah Press, 2006. Page 242
- Campbell, Jean. Australian Watercolour Painters: 1780 to the Present Day. Craftsman House, Sydney, 1989. Page 284
- Australian Prints + Printmaking, a database listing printmaking artists from Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific region based on the print collection of the National Gallery of Australia.
Artists' Resale Royalty
Could the second and subsequent works by this artist sold after June 9, 2010 for over $1,000 be liable for the Artists' Resale Royalty? More info…
No, ineligible. The artist has been deceased for more than 70 years.
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