Lucy Colgate Newell (29 September 1906 – 22 May 1987) was an Australian artist noted for painting and textile printing.
Biography
Newell was born in 1906 in
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,
Victoria
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to artist Alice Newell
and her husband Lt. Colonel Francis Sargent Newell, a solicitor. She was educated at
St Catherine's School and took Saturday morning art classes at Castlemaine Technical School with Miss Naples.
She later did classes in
watercolour painting
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 ...
one afternoon a week with Miss Ethel Crook of
Bendigo
Bendigo ( ) is a city in Victoria, Australia, located in the Bendigo Valley near the geographical centre of the state and approximately north-west of Melbourne, the state capital.
As of 2019, Bendigo had an urban population of 100,991, makin ...
.
Newell studied at the
National Gallery School
The National Gallery of Victoria Art School, associated with the National Gallery of Victoria, was a private fine arts college founded in 1867 and was Australia's leading art school of 50 years.
It is also referred to as the 'National Gallery ...
for five years under
Bernard Hall but found she didn't much enjoy portraiture or oil painting,
and instead took up textile printing with linocut on cotton fabric.
Her mother Alice was a co-founder of the
Castlemaine Art Museum
Castlemaine Art Museum is an Australian art gallery and museum in Castlemaine, Victoria in the Shire of Mount Alexander. It was founded in 1913. It is housed in a 1931 Art Deco neo-classical building constructed for the purpose, heritage-listed ...
with whom Newell later exhibited in 1971 and which holds her artwork in their collection. She also has work in the
National Gallery of Australia
The National Gallery of Australia (NGA), formerly the Australian National Gallery, is the national art museum of Australia as well as one of the largest art museums in Australia, holding more than 166,000 works of art. Located in Canberra in th ...
's collection and at
Buda Historic Home & Garden.
Newell briefly had to give up artistic pursuits to care for her elderly parents, but spent ten years in
Woodend creating work she wanted to do.
She died there on 22 May 1987.
References
External links
Lucy Newell Australian art and artists file, ''State Library Victoria''
Works by Lucy Newell in State Library Victoria collection
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1906 births
1987 deaths
Australian painters
Australian textile artists
People from Castlemaine, Victoria
Artists from Victoria (state)
People educated at St Catherine's School, Melbourne
National Gallery of Victoria Art School alumni