Helen Elizabeth Ogilvie (4 May 1902, in

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– 1 August 1993, in

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) was a twentieth-century Australian artist and gallery director, cartoonist, painter, printmaker and craftworker, best known for her early linocuts and woodcuts, and her later oil paintings of vernacular colonial buildings.

Early life and education

Helen Elizabeth Ogilvie was born 4 May 1902 in

and grew up in surrounding rural

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where she would go sketching with her mother, Henrietta, a

watercolourist Watercolor (American English) or watercolour (British English; see spelling differences), also ''aquarelle'' (; from Italian diminutive of Latin ''aqua'' "water"), is a painting method”Watercolor may be as old as art itself, going back to t ...

, before her family moved to

in 1920. There Helen attended the

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in 1922–25 though she did not enjoy its conservative approach and prescriptive teaching methods. In her last year her style was influenced by

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while he briefly was the drawing master. While at the school she became a member of the

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and started exhibiting in 1924.

Early career

Inspired by seeing a book of

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s in 1928, Ogilvie produced many linocuts and woodcuts from the 1930s onwards. Her work in a 1932 group show is praised, with that of other exhibitors, for skills in cutting and "an intimate artistic facility for illustrative design". She was one of many women artists who took up relief printing but, unlike

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and

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, Ogilvie could not afford to study it overseas, and when she took up

wood engraving Wood engraving is a printmaking technique, in which an artist works an image or ''matrix'' of images into a block of wood. Functionally a variety of woodcut, it uses relief printing, where the artist applies ink to the face of the block and ...

in the 1930s it was her friend, the artist and printmaker

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who provided instruction. She focussed on subject matter familiar to her, including farm animals, rural landscapes and Australian flora and fauna. Curator Sheridan Palmer in the catalogue for a 1995

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retrospective described her as; She exhibited frequently, but in an effort to survive in the Depression years she also produced

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s, greeting cards, and calendars. In 1933 she showed in a joint exhibition with printmaker Anne Montgomery. She enjoyed good connections at

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and the

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, with art historians Joseph Burke,

Ursula Hoff Ursula Hoff (26 December 1909 in London, UK – 10 January 2005 in Melbourne) was an Australian scholar and prolific author on art. She enjoyed a long career at the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne, where she was deputy director from 196 ...

, and with

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, producing illustrations for the latter's book ''Flinders Lane: recollections of

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'' (Melbourne University Press,Carlton, 1947) and Sir

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's ''Stolne and surreptitious verses'' (Melbourne University Press, Carlton, 1952). Buttons bearing her designs were sold for a shilling to raise funds for the 1955 building program at Melbourne University.

War years

During WW2 and after, Ogilvie worked in the

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Rehabilitation Service at Heidelberg Military Hospital under Frances Wade, where she taught patients lino- and wood-cutting, and basketmaking using locally harvested European and Australian native rushes. In 1948 Ogilvie, assisted by Helen Biggs, set up a school to train handicrafts instructors for Red Cross occupational therapy services.

Gallerist

Ogilvie was a generous mentor of emerging artists, and in 1949 Stanley Coe appointed her as one of Australia's first women gallery directors to create a commercial exhibition space on the upper floor of his interior design shop at 435

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. Artist

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dubbed it "the lone beacon in town for contemporary art." For the period until 1955, and with advice from her friends Ursula Hoff,

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and Alan McCulloch, she organised a program of exhibitions of the

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;

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(who showed his ''Illiad'' series, amongst his earliest experiments with enamel house paint on

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, October 1952),

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(whose radical 'schoolgirl' series was shown there in May 1953),

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(whose first Australian show in a commercial gallery was there in 1953),

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, Michael Shannon and others. The opening show in February 1950 of a group twenty Victorian artists associated with George Bell, whose work was also shown, included Alan Warren,

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, Charles Bush,

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, Phyl Waterhouse,

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, Francis Roy Thompson, and Arnold Shore, and was followed by a survey show of contemporary art from Sydney. The National Gallery of Victoria purchased important contemporary works from Stanley Coe Gallery between 1950 and 1963. In 1954 however, the dominance of the gallery for emerging artists was being challenged, a fact signalled by the Contemporary Art Society's massive exhibition at Tye's Gallery at 100 Burke Street in 1954 and the ascendancy of their Gallery of Contemporary Art on Flinders Street. During her period as gallery director, work by Ogilvie was among others selected in 1950 to decorate the liner

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, and in 1954 her work was show together with that of

and Kenneth Hood at the

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, London, encouraging her change of attention to Europe and back to her own art-making.

London

After moving on from her directorship, Ogilvie's own oil paintings of abandoned country structures were shown in 1956 at the gallery, which had been renamed the ''Peter Bray''.''The Age'' Tuesday 10 Apr 1956, p.2 She had firmly established her reputation in Australia, with works already acquired by Hoff for the collection of the National Gallery of Victoria, and had purchased a house in South Yarra.'Artist home after six years abroad', ''The Age'' Saturday 22 Jun 1963, p.8 That year she moved to London, where she was engaged with the Crafts Revival of the 1950s and 60s and because, as she joked in an interview, "art doesn't pay", she made a living designing modernist lampshades of Japanese papers and parchment for a period, selling them to the high society customers of interior designer David Hicks, of

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and

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. During her stay overseas, she visited and sketched the English countryside, and with Melbourne friend Hattie Alexander, described as her 'companion', toured Italy over 11 weeks. Though she produced sketches of European sites, she did not exhibit them but continued to paint small studies of Australian rural buildings, from memory and from sketches, holding two successful solo exhibitions of them in London, including one of 34 canvases, which sold out.

Return to Australia and late career

Ogilvie returned to Australia in 1963 where the subjects of her paintings and drawings continued to be humble rural buildings which she was aware were disappearing; in an interview she bemoaned the lack of protection given such relics in Australia, compared to the UK. While many Australian artists continued to follow European and international trends, Ogilvie devoted her art to Australian subjects, determined to create a new tradition of Australian printmaking and artistic practice. Reception of her paintings in Australia however, as opposed to her earlier prints, was lukewarm;

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in reviewing her 1968 Macquarie Galleries solo describes them as 'sweet and stiff'. By the late 1970s she was producing little work but remained interested in the art world. The last of her solo exhibitions that she was able to attend opened at aGOG (Australian Girls' Own Gallery), Canberra, on her 89th birthday, 4 May 1991. Ogilvie died suddenly in Melbourne on 1 August 1993.

Legacy

Critical response to Ogilvie's work was sparse, limited mainly to the prints and to vague praise or her 'fine impressions in line and colour' or of lino-cutting skills, 'the work of a sound craftsman ic, 'decorative' and with a sense of colour that is 'agreeable and harmonious'. By the time of curator Sheridan Palmer's touring Ballarat Art Gallery Ogilvie 1995 retrospective, ''The Age'' critic Robert Nelson in his review highlighted; Nevertheless, her work, especially her printmaking, has since enjoyed a renewed interest and reevaluation, and has featured in seven major surveys of Australian women's art (see section 'Posthumous exhibitions', below).

Exhibitions

Solo

* 1948, May: Exhibition of watercolour drawings * 1956, April: Paintings,

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, Melbourne * 1963, February/March: ''Australian Country Dwellings'', shown with ''The Landscapes of Lucien Pissarro'' at Leicester Galleries Gallery, Audley Sq., Mayfair, London * 1967, March:

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, Audley Sq., Mayfair, London * 1968, September: joint solo with David Rose,

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, Sydney * 1968, October: Helen Ogilvie Paintings, Leveson Street Gallery,

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* 1972, from 3 May: Macquarie Galleries (joint solo with

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) * 1974, 2–13 June: Leveson Street Gallery, Melbourne. * 1979, 11–30 July: solo alongside Trevor Weekes and Denese Oates, Macquarie Galleries * 1982, 1 October – 31 October: ''Project 39: Women's imprint'', part of Women and the Arts Festival, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales * 1991, May 1991: australian Girls Own Gallery, Canberra, ACT

Group

*1924, 18–27 November: An Exhibition Of Etchings & Drawings, with

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, John D. Moor,

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, John L. Berry, Frank H. Molony, R. J. Waterhouse, Fred. C. Brltten,

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, d’A. Boxall, J. Barclay Godson, Arthur Reed, H. Van Raake, B. E. Minns, Harold D. Herbert, James S. MacDonald, Norman Carter,

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, Alfred T. Clint,

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, A. Henry Fullwood, Raymond H. McGrath, Don Finley, Hamilton Mack,

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, F. M. Grey, Montague White, Audrey Hardy, K. Sauerbier, Professor

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, Hardy Wilson,

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.Advertisement, The Sydney Morning Herald, Tue, Nov 18, 1924, p.6 Exhibition Hall, Sixth Floor, Farmer & Company, department store, cnr. Pitt, Market & George Streets, Sydney * 1932, 5–16 April: with

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, John Dick,

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, Dorrit Block, Ron Meadows, Marjorie Wood, Michael O’Connell. Everyman's Library, 332 Collins Street’Designs in Lino Cut’, The Age, Tue, Apr 5, 1932, p.8 * 1932, to 29 October: Helen Ogilvie,

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, Helen Boyd, paintings and prints. Collins House, Melbourne.'Exhibition at Collins House,' ''The Age'', Tue, Oct 25, 1932, p.5 * 1933: New Melbourne Art Club exhibition,

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, Melbourne * 1933, 16–23 October: The Arts and Crafts Society Annual Exhibition, Melbourne Town Hall'The Arts and Crafts Society: Annual Exhibition,' ''The Age'', Monday 16 Oct 1933, p.5 * 1934, The centenary art exhibition, Commonwealth Bank Chambers, 367 Collins Street, Melbourne. * 1936: Painter-Etchers and Graphic Art Society of Australia, David Jones Art Gallery * 1936, 14–25 July: New Melbourne Art Club exhibition, Athenaeum Gallery * 1936, 15 April-1 May: Exhibition of paintings, Stair Gallery, 117 Collins Street, Melbourne * 1937, from 12 July: New Melbourne Art Club exhibition, Athenaeum Gallery * 1939, 21 August – 2 September: New Melbourne Art Club Seventh Annual Show * 1949, February 22-March 4: Exhibition of pictures by Australian artists and loan collection of Indian art, in aid of University Women's College Building Appeal,. Tye's Gallery, 100 Bourke Street, Melbourne * 1949, 5 – 13 November: Fern Tree Gully Arts Society, Sixth annual exhibition. * 1953, October: Flowerdale

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annual exhibition * 1954, November: Helen Ogilvie,

, Kenneth Hood,

, London''The Age'' Friday 19 Nov 1954, p.4 * 1954: with Braund, Blackman, Brack, Shannon, ''Nine Victorian Artists'', Peter Bay Gallery. * 1956, June: with Dorothy Braund,

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, Guelda Pyke, Roma Thomson, Phyl Waterhouse, and six male artists, ''Paintings for Seven Guineas'', Peter Bray Gallery * 1958: Crouch Prize exhibition, Art Gallery of Ballarat * 1964, August: with Lady Williams (President) Geoff Jones, Guelda Pyke, Edith Wall, Bill Coleman, Dorothy Braund, Guelda Gude, Madge Freeman Davis, and others of the Melbourne Contemporary Artists, Argus Gallery * 1965, 28 February-11 March: Leveson Street Art Gallery, corner of Leveson and Victoria Streets, North Melbourne * 1967, 26 February-9 March: Leveson Street Art Gallery, corner of Leveson and Victoria Streets, North Melbourne * 1973, March: Leveson Street Art Gallery, corner of Leveson and Victoria Streets, North Melbourne * 1974, March 3–21: Leveson Street Art Gallery, corner of Leveson and Victoria Streets, North Melbourne * 1974, 26 September: Association for the Blind – Springfield Art Show * 1975, 7 November-23 November: Deutsher Galleries opening exhibition – a collection of 19th & 20th century European & Australian paintings, drawings & graphics * 1977, April 2: Exhibition marking the opening of 'Important Women Artists Gallery', 13 Emo Road,

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* 1978, 1 April-7 May: ''Cicadas and gumnuts – The Society of Arts and Crafts 1906–1935'', Art Gallery of New South Wales * 1979, 16 February-4 March: inaugural exhibition Murray Crescent Galleries, 35 Murray Crescent,

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* 1980, 21–23 November: Ogilvie works included amongst 600 items purchased for the National Gallery of Victoria by the Gallery Society from 1949–1980 which were offered for sale at an ''Art Mart'', Caulfield Arts Centre. * 1981/2, Nov. 1981 – Jan. 1982: with Christopher Croft,

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, Ruth Faerber, Dusan Marek,

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, Michael Shannon,

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. ''Tasmania visited'', Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery. * 1982, 27 November-5 December: Artbank purchase exhibition held in conjunction with the Victorian Artists' Society * 1990, 9–24 December: ''Christmas exhibition'', Jester Press Gallery, 178 Bridport Street, Albert Park

Posthumous

Solo

* 1995: ''All this I knew'', Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Ballarat, VIC. and travelling * 1995/6, 15 December – 14 January: ''Helen Ogilvie Retrospective'', McClelland Art Gallery,

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Inclusions in

* 1995, 5 March – 30 April: ''Australian Women Printmakers 1910–1940'',

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, Castlemaine, VIC * 1995, 8 March – 2 April: ''The Women's View: Australian women artists in the Bendigo Art Gallery, 1888–1995'',

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, Bendigo
Vic
* 1995, 8 March – 8 June: ''National Women's Art Exhibition'', with ''Speaking of Women, four guest lectures''; by Nancy Underhill,

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, Margo Neale,

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; held over successive Fridays, 10–31 March 1995, by the Art Gallery Society,

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, Sydney
NSW
* 1995, 4 August – 5 August: ''Women and Art'' auction preview for Dalia Stanley Auctioneers, auction held 6 August 1995, Mary Place Gallery,

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NSW
* 2000/1, 24 November 2000 – 25 February 2001: ''Modern Australian Women: paintings and prints 1925–1945'',

Art Gallery of South Australia The Art Gallery of South Australia (AGSA), established as the National Gallery of South Australia in 1881, is located in Adelaide. It is the most significant visual arts museum in the Australian state of South Australia. It has a collection of ...

, Adelaide, SA. Then national tour. * 2002, June/July: Journeys,

Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery The Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery (TMAG) is a museum located in Hobart, Tasmania. The museum was established in 1846, by the Royal Society of Tasmania, the oldest Royal Society outside England. The TMAG receives 400,000 visitors annually. ...

* 2011/12 10 December 2011 to 4 February 2012: ''Australian works on paper'', Josef Lebovic Gallery,

Kensington Kensington is a district in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in the West End of London, West of Central London. The district's commercial heart is Kensington High Street, running on an east–west axis. The north-east is taken up b ...

* 2011/12, 20 October 2011 – 15 December 2012:
Look, Look Again
', highlights from the

Cruthers Collection of Women's Art Cruthers Collection of Women's Art is a collection of more than 700 artworks by Australian women, held at the University of Western Australia. It is the only public collection focused on women's art in Australia. The Cruthers Collection was fo ...

(CCWA), gifted to the University of Western Australia in 2007, with publication titled ''Into the Light'' and symposium ''Are we there yet?''.

Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery The Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery is an on-campus art gallery at the University of Western Australia in Crawley. History The gallery was established in July 1990. Description It is supported by a "friends of" organisation. It contains collect ...

, University of Western Australia, Perth, WA * 2019, 18 May – 4 August: ''Becoming Modern : Australian women artists 1920–1950,'' Art Gallery of Ballarat

Collections

* Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, WA * Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston, TAS * Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart, TAS *

, Castlemaine, VIC * Benalla Art Gallery, Benalla, VIC * City of Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Ballarat, VIC * University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC * La Trobe Collection, State Library of Victoria, Melbourne, VIC * National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, VIC * National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT * Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia * Queensland Art Gallery * Ian Potter Museum of Art, the University of Melbourne, VIC * Cruthers Collection of Women's Art at the University of Western Australia

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Ogilvie, Helen 1902 births 1993 deaths 20th-century Australian women artists 20th-century Australian LGBT people Australian printmakers Australian cartoonists Australian LGBT artists Australian art curators Australian art gallery directors Artists from New South Wales National Gallery of Victoria Art School alumni