Notebooks. ca. 1900-ca. 1960.

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Notebooks. ca. 1900-ca. 1960.

Comprises sketchbook of Dora Wilson, ca. 1920's; notebooks of Dora Wilson, containing poems, ca. 1900-1918; and diary, possibly by Hugh Wilson (Dora's brother), ca. 1920-1960.

8.0 cm.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7038034

Libraries Australia

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Wilson, Hugh

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Wilson, Dora Lynnell, 1883-1946.

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Dora Wilson's family moved to Melbourne from Newcastle upon Tyne in 1884. She was educated at Methodist Ladies' College and then studied at the National Gallery schools under Bernard Hall and Frederick McCubbin. Wilson excelled in pastels, contributed to the Australian Exhibition of Women's Work in Melbourne in 1907, and from her studio in Collins Street sold her etchings, pastels and oil paintings of still lifes, nudes and portraits. In the 1920's she began to concentrate on street scenes and i...