Alfred Noel Joseph Rubie (25 December 1901 – 13 July 1975) was an Australian

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painter, portrait and commercial photographer, playwright and pharmacy proprietor who worked in Sydney during the 1920s and into the 1960s. In addition to his work as a painter and photographer, Rubie was involved with the

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as a photographer, actor, writer, and costume and set designer.

Early life

Noel Rubie was born on

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1901, the only child of Annie Maria (née Cooper) and James Joseph Rubie in Newtown, New South Wales.

Career

Rubie pursued interests in a number of enterprises. Commencing the exhibition of his paintings from 1929, Rubie simultaneously set up with Jack E. Turner at 10 Bligh St., Corydon as a

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ist in business from November 1930; a magazine article indicates that he may have been undertaking studies in design in 1934 while in May he commenced cosmetic manufacture with Jessica Harcourt, before Hazel Holland ( de Berg) became his partner in his photography studio at 2 Belmore Rd., Randwick from December 1936. Heather George also worked with him. At the same time he established the Wynyard Pharmacy, on the Ramp at Wynyard Station with Arthur H. Dowse, which he renamed the ‘Wynyard Drug Store’ the following January. He retired from his partnership with Hazel on 12 October 1938, having set up Rubie, Noel, Pty., Ltd. industrial and commercial photographers with directors Arthur H. Dowse, Edwin Paterson and Ella M. Hamilton, only days before, with a capital of £2000 in £1 shares. Rubie next established Kendal Crawford Laboratories, manufacturers and distributors of chemicals and cosmetics in May 1940, and Roto Displays in April 1941, then, with Arthur Dowse and Reginald Perier, started a film company “Perier Productions” incorporated in Noel Rubie Pty. Ltd’, in March 1947, after the War. The photographic business prospered and increased its staffing between 1936 and particularly during 1950. Noel Rubie Pty. Ltd was dissolved by default under the Companies Act of 1961 on 19 August 1967.

Painter

From 1929 Rubie showed with the

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, and the Australian Art Society, and was a finalist for the

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with a portrait, now held in the

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, of Walter Collett Shoppee, son of a

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gold-miner and veteran of the Crimean War and the ‘Indian Mutiny’. His painting style aligned with that of other early modernists in Australia and, though of modest standing, is comparable to the work of artists such as

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, and

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. He exhibited with Ronald H. Steuart, Harold Abbott and

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. Rubie's paintings and photographs are represented in the National Portrait Gallery, The National Library of Australia, the State Library of Victoria and the Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences. He first exhibited at Grosvenor Galleries in 1936 with reviews in ''

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'' and with two of his male portraits ''These Yellow Sands'' and ''Not Amused'' illustrated in the November ''

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.''

Photographer

Rubie provided stylish society portraits, mainly of young women but also of established personalities for '' The Home: an Australian quarterly'' until the beginning of WW2 and then '' The Bulletin'' into the 1950s. Significant among these subjects were Lesley Pope (later Hazlitt) of

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; actor Joy Youlden from the J. C. Williamson production of ''The Girl Friend''; Margaret Doyle, first woman newsreader and national radio announcer in Australia; journalist

Robin Dalton Robin Ann Dalton Order of Australia, AM ( Eakin; 22 December 1920 – 8 July 2022) was an Australian literary agent, film producer and memoirist who lived in London for most of her adult life. She was also a journalist, television performer and ...

(née Eakin); and cellist Lois Simpson. An indication of the cost of sitting for a Noel Rubie portrait was that for a wartime

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radio auction he contributed the offer of a portrait giving a value of 3 guineas (A$239.80 2022 equivalent). He presented a workshop on lighting and portraiture at his studio for the

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Camera Circle in 1947. HIs portrait subjects also included actors

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and

Queenie Ashton Ethel Muriel Ashton (11 November 190321 October 1999), known professionally as Queenie Ashton, was a character actress, born in England, who had a long career in Australia as a theatre performer and radio personality, best known for her radio ...

, radio personality

Jack Davey John Andrew Davey (8 February 190714 October 1959), known as Jack Davey, was a New Zealand-born singer and pioneering star of Australian radio as a performer, producer, writer and host from the early 1930s into the late 1950s. Later in his caree ...

and announcer Margaret Doyle, politician Hon. Eric John Harrison, soprano

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, contralto

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, actress and costume designer

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, physician Captain Gwen Lusby, pianist

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, dancers

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, Maria Azrova,

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and

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, 1950 File:Portrait of Jack Davey.jpg,

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(née Eakin) 1938 File:Madame Kirsten Flagstad, Norwegian soprano "The Home" August 1938.jpg, Madame

Norwegian soprano, 1938 File:Hélène Kirsova 'The Home" August 1938.jpg,

in 'The Home" magazine, 1938 File:Valda Aveling.jpg,

, 1938 File:Essie Ackland 1948.jpg,

, 1948 File:Madge Ryan 1948.jpg,

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in 1948 File:Gwen Lusby 800.jpg, Gwen Lusby, 1943 Rubie was, with

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, David Moore and

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, among a number of Australian photographers who had moved on from

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and were embracing Modernist tendencies, including montage and the

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as practiced in Europe and America. He produced publicity photographs for the Independent Theatre, and photographed members of the Ballets Russes de Colonel de Basil and performers in the avant-garde

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's tour of India, where he also photographed Joan Falkiner. He also portrayed Dorothy Stevenson as

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, in her first dramatic role, with the Borovanaky Ballet. He was a friend of the modern artist

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, whom he advised on photography, and who gifted him of one of the forty-seven Central Australian landscapes Nolan showed in an exhibition at the David Jones Gallery in 1950. In the 1950s, commercial and industrial clients of Noel Rubie Pty. Ltd. included

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, Pyrmont; Kent and Waverley Breweries for Tooth and Co. Ltd.;

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; and the

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. He regularly provided freelance photography for ''The Sydney Morning Herald''.

Theatre

Rubie was associated with the

in Sydney; he wrote and directed ''Timeless Moment'' which was performed in a short run there from 8 March 1945. Though that play was met with a poor review by ''The Bulletin,'' he returned after WW2 in 1954 to produce the decor and costumes for ''

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,'' which ''The Bulletin'' found "pleasing in the orthodox modern manner," while in an earlier issue of the magazine the writer of the 'Women's Letters' more emphatically praised how his "costumes and decor gave a lesson in emphasis to budding interior-decorative artists, for all the intense color was concentrated on the only woman in the cast, Lady Cicely Waynflete, played by Doris Fitton. Flame coupled with grey, jacaranda-mauve with white, egg-yellow and emerald made her costumes more than striking, as if an intense spotlight was playing on her all the time." In 1956 he designed the set for Australian writer, Barbara Vernon's '

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' set in the Malay jungle, ''Naked Possum''. Anton Vogt described Rubie's costume design in

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's ''Phaedra'' performed in August 1961 at The Independent as "imposing and elegant," while ''Le Courrier Australien'' was more specific, noting that Rubie's 'rather free interpretation' of the Grecian setting, use of contemporary vocabulary and his 'costume of merit,' demanded much of the cast to put action into its delivery to satisfy audiences used to movement on stage, but also to retain their attention to Racine's poetry, the mood and expression of which Rubie had respected. ''The Australian Jewish Times'' noted; "That the overall production is...impressive is due in the first place to Rubie's adaptation which avoids too much artificiality," while "R.C." in ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' remarked on the energy of the production; "This was a "Phaedra" of violent mobility and flauntingly naked emotions; an effective piece of theatre with as much subtlety as a direct blow to the face," due to Rubie's "underlining and repeating what Racine was content to imply or state briefly" in his adaptation.

Reception

The earliest newspaper review of Rubie's painting appeared in the 2 August 1929 edition of ''

'' when he showed with the Royal Art Society at the Education Department galleries in Sydney, in which the brief comment was "Mr. Noel Rubie has painted with decided effect the head in his portrait "Mary," and has blended his tones well but the management of the right arm resting upon the hip is not entirely convincing." In the 1932 Australian Art Society group show, reviewer "C.S." singled Rubie out to conclude; "Noel Rubie, if he sets aside a few affectations, will become an excellent portrait painter. ' His portrait of a young boy is certainly the most striking picture in the show." Of the 1933 Australian Art Society annual show ''The Bulletin'' describes Rubie's four portraits as "direct and simple, well-drawn," with his best being “''Norma'', a lady in black, effectively posed," while ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' reviewer considers Rubie "the most striking" among the oil-painters;

...simply because he has cut away all the non-essentials, the fuss over details that overwhelm, instead of emphasise, the sitter in a portrait; and has made form and character the principal things. Mr. Ruble's colour sense is, distinctly his weakest point. The brilliantly-hued, perfectly flat backgrounds are too aggressive; the contrasts they make, too obvious. But at least one feels that he is striving to emphasise structural quality. In ''Alan'', the sinews of the arms are strongly felt. The hands grasping the table-edge have power in them. The figure Is a unity. One realises the solidity of it. In the two portraits of women, too, the personality comes forth from the picture easily and definitely. In a word, there is life.

In the Australian Art Society show and one at Grosvenor Galleries of the following year, Rubie's issue with backgrounds is seen to have been resolved, but the ''Herald'' reviewer is critical of the emphasis on surface effects over 'depth';

One, entitled ''The Corporal'', has sterling qualities in its fine, clear, luminous background, which is striking without being too obtrusive. The figure has been developed with admirable smoothness of detail; and there is a plastic quality about It which is attractive; but the whole thing remains life a coloured photograph, devoid of emotion and personality. Far more alive is a self-portrait by Cliff Pier, painted on a ground of wood, which still shows ruggedly through.

''The Bulletin'' identifies his portrait of a young man ''Lyric'' in the October 1934 show of "young commercial artists" at the Grosvenor Galleries as the "most graceful thing in the show...for the lines sing," His first solo exhibition, at the Grosvenor Galleries, Sydney in 1936 was given a lengthy review in ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' in which the journalist considered him 'a rising star' despite still being in his twenties, before taking issue with his titles because "more conservative visitors, beholding such descriptions as ''Symbolical of Something'' and ''Synthetic Kurrajong'', may impute to the pictures a shallow attempt at smartness which is not their true quality. All the painting has obviously been done sincerely, and with painstaking attempts to penetrate below the mere casual outward aspect of things seen." In this review colour is singled out as "symphonies of strong green and glowing blue ..always forceful, yet always gracious." ''The Bulletin'' of 17 June also treated the exhibition at length, and in the same issue included a lively account of the opening in its ''Women's Letters'';

...there are at least three Noel Rubies—a portraitist who excels in the representation of vigorous youth, delighting in smooth modelling and the most meticulous rendition of detail ; ...another...who exercises a dramatic, character-revealing Sargentesque touch; a decorationist who seeks to find a significant pattern in landscape and other natural forms ... there is lucidity of purpose and a degree of achievement that makes the purpose clear...''These Yellow Sands'', owes something to
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in its ... luminous, vibrant background. ''Symbolical of Something'' puts romance and beauty into a study of a wheat silo...and ''Heather'' is as successful a portrait as has been exhibited in Sydney these last five years.

A 1947 solo show, also at Grosvenor Galleries, drew praise from "J.C." of ''The Daily Telegraph'' as "the most significant one-man exhibition that has been shown in Sydney for a long time. Rubie displays a confidence in his technique, a sense of power and determination in his work, the lack of which is the chief fault in exhibitions by contemporary Australian artists," though this reviewer too found fault with titles as demonstrating 'bewilderment' about his subjects, and was concerned about a 'sameness' of treatment. The ''Herald'' reviewer dismissed the same work as derivative of Rubie's hotographic"world of commercial advertising and the magazine cover," and not to be taken "seriously as art."

Personal life

Rubie never married, and he enjoyed bachelorhood, yachting (in a black craft that he sold in 1948 to actor Grant Taylor), entertaining, and travel that included North Africa, India, Spain, England, Tahiti, America and Japan. He was quoted as considering what was 'chic' in a woman was her wearing clothes to the greatest advantage; "Charm is most important in a woman, but is impossible to see if she has that in a first look." Wilfrid Thomas in the ''ABC Weekly'' recounted how after the War the photographer converted and combined 80-year-old semi-detached cottages into one residence at

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that overlooked

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with a swimming-pool, a balcony designed to look like a ship's promenade deck, a 'Naughty ’Nineties' bar' with cedar-lined, crystal-lit discreet alcove, a lounge lined with books and a mural map of the world; and a music-room with a star-studded azure wall. In 1959 he redecorated it in a Japanese style, its windows replaced with

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, the result being illustrated in a ''Herald'' article in which he commented that he had been born in one of the original terrace houses. Rubie later relocated to the foothills of the Blue Mountains, at

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to a mansion designed by himself in a Spanish Mission style. In 1960 the house and property were purchased for a boys home. He died on 13 July 1975 and is buried at

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, North Ryde, Ryde City, New South Wales.

Productions

*Translator'':'' ''Phaedra'', Independent Theatre (1939-1977), North Sydney, NSW, 18 August 1961 *Designer, Director: ''Naked Possum'', Independent Theatre (1939-1977), North Sydney, NSW, 13 September 1956 *Designer, Producer: ''Captain Brassbound's Conversion'', Independent Theatre (1939-1977), North Sydney, NSW, 11 March 1954 *Playwright: ''Timeless Moment'', Independent Theatre (1939-1977), North Sydney, NSW, 3 March 1945

Exhibitions

Solo

* 1936, from 9 June: ''Noel Rubie'', 21 paintings, opened by

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a journalist for ''The Daily Telegraph'' newspaper, Grosvenor Galleries, 219 George Street, Sydney * 1947, from 18 March: ''Noel Rubie'', Grosvenor Galleries, Sydney * 1957: Redfern Galleries, London * 1964, 9–16 September: ''Noel Rubie.'' Barry Stern Gallery, 28 Glenmore Road, Paddington

Group

* 1929, August: Royal Art Society, Education Department galleries, Sydney * 1930, from 10 June: Australian Art Society, 4th Annual Exhibition, Education Department galleries, Sydney * 1930, August: Royal Art Society * 1931, Archibald Prize * 1931, June: Australian Art Society * 1931, August: Rubie with

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Dattilo Rubbo Antonio Salvatore Dattilo Rubbo (Napoli 21 June 1870 – Sydney 1 June 1955) was an Italian-born artist and art teacher active in Australia from 1897. Rubbo, or Dattilo-Rubbo, was born in Naples in 1870, and spent his early childhood in the N ...

, Charles Wheeler, Dorothy Bates, G. K. Townsend and others. Royal Art Society 52nd exhibition. Education Department galleries, Sydney * 1932, June: Australian Art Society * 1933, June: Rubie in the annual Australian Art Society with William Oates, Rhys Williams, H. C. Hadley, James A. Crisp, Walter Dowman, Kate Beard and W. M. Whitney. Education Department's gallery, Sydney * 1934, June: with Rhys Williams,

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, Garrett Kingsley, William M. Whitney, Walter Dowman, and others, Australian Art Society, Education Department galleries, Sydney * 1934, from 24 October: ''Nine Young Artists'', Rubie with Ronald H. Steuart, Harold Abbott, Carrington Smith,

, Francis Sherwood,

, Charles H. Bassett, Eileen McGrath and sculptor Beaumont Moulden, Grosvenor Galleries, Sydney * 1942, September: Society of Artists exhibition, Rubie with Norman Carter, Dattilo-Rubbo,

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Lloyd Rees Lloyd Frederic Rees (17 March 18952 December 1988) was an Australian landscape painter who twice won the Wynne Prize for his landscape paintings. Most of Rees's works are preoccupied with depicting the effects of light and emphasis is placed ...

Adrian Feint Adrian George Feint (28 June 1894 – 25 April 1971) was an Australian artist. He worked in various media, and is noted for his bookplate designs. Education and military service Feint was born in Narrandera, New South Wales. He studied at S ...

, Maude Sherwood, Ronald Steuart, Kenneth Macqueen,

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, Frank Medworth, May Gonely,

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, Lorna Nimmo, Freda Robertshaw * 1949, from 28 March: Rubie with David Moore,

, Rob Hillier, John Hearder, Tony Cleal, John C. Nisbett, Ray Leighton, Milton Kent, Russell Roberts, Reg Johnson, John Lee, Ray Leighton, Hal Williamson and

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, Institute of Photographic Illustrators, opened by Hal Missingham, director of the

. David Jones Gallery

Collections

* National Portrait Gallery * The National Library of Australia * Australian National University Research Collection * Art Gallery of New South Wales * State Library of Victoria * Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences

Gallery of photographs by Noel Rubie

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in dance drama ''The Masks of Lucifer'', 1944 File:Eileen Cramer.jpg,

in ''Indian Love Song'' c.1952 File:Sono Osata 1940.jpg,

, 1940 File:Roman Jasinski in Icare 1940.jpg,

in ''Icare'' 1940 File:The Home - an Australian quarterly.Vol. 19 No. 7 (1 July 1938) p44.jpg, Margaret Doyle, 1938

References

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