Eveline Winifred Syme
Eveline Syme(26 October 1888 – 6 June 1961) was an Australian artist associated with theGrosvenor School of Modern Art,and an advocate forwomen's post-secondary education.
Early life
[edit]Eveline Winifred Syme was born inThames Ditton,Surrey,England, daughter of Joseph Cowen Syme and Laura Blair Syme. She was raised inMelbourne,where she was an early student ofMelbourne Girls Grammar.Her father was a newspaper publisher in that city, as were her grandfatherEbenezer Syme(proprietor ofThe Age), and William Spowers, the father of her friend and colleague,Ethel Spowers.Eveline Syme returned to England to study classics atNewnham College,Cambridge, but women were not granted degrees from Cambridge in her time, so she went back to Melbourne to earn an education degree.[1]
Career
[edit]Syme studied art in Paris with M. Denis atLa Grand Chaumierein 1922/1923[2]and Melbourne, often in the company of Spowers.[3]She had her first solo show in Melbourne in 1925, and another in 1928, showing works in various media, many of themwatercolorlandscapestudies, though she also painted in oils and drew in pencil. She and Spowers enrolled at theGrosvenor School of Modern Artin 1929, to learn more about linocuts.[4]They were joined here byDorrit Black,studying linocut printing withClaude Flight.[5]
By the following year Syme was back in Melbourne, exhibiting and speaking about modern printmaking.[6]Along with Spowers she was associated withGeorge Bell's "Contemporary Art Group." Late in life, she was on the executive committee of the National Gallery Society of Victoria.[7]
Syme was also involved in efforts during the 1930s to build a women's college at theUniversity of Melbourne,and served as president of the University Women's College council in the 1940s.[8]
Syme died in 1961, age 72. She was buried atBrighton Cemetery.[9]Eveline was a founding member of the University Women's College at the University of Melbourne.[10]She left much of her estate to the University Women's College.
References
[edit]- ^Stephen Coppel, "Syme, Eveline Winifred (1888–1961)",Australian Dictionary of Biography(2002).
- ^Robb, Gwenda (1993).Concise Dictionary of Australian Artists.Melbourne University Press. p. 250.ISBN0-522-84478-2.
- ^Felicity St. John Moore, "Eveline Syme, 'Tennis and Tea,'"in Lesley Harding and Sue Cramer, eds.,Cubism and Australian Art(Miegunyah Press 2009): 107.
- ^Stephen Coppel,Linocuts of the Machine Age: Claude Flight and the Grosvenor School(Scolar Press 1995).
- ^Edwards, Deborah (2013).Sydney Moderns. Art For a New World.Sydney, NSW, Australia: Art Gallery of NSW. p. 79.ISBN9781741740974.
- ^Art Gallery NSW, "Works by Eveline Syme"
- ^Jane Hyltton,Modern Australian Women: Paintings and Prints, 1925-1945(Art Gallery of South Australia 2000).
- ^E. I. Lothian and Eveline Syme,University Women's College, University of Melbourne: A Brief History(University of Melbourne 1954).
- ^"Eveline Winifred Syme," Brighton Cemetery Historic Interments,http://brightoncemetery /HistoricInterments/150Names/symee.htmArchived30 March 2012 at theWayback Machine
- ^"Women Artists. Works From the Permanent Collection" catalogue, University Gallery, The University of Melbourne, July 26 - August 30 1983. Page 13. Art and Artists Files, held in the National Gallery of Australia Research and Archive Collection.
External links
[edit]Eveline Winifred Syme[Australian art and artists file],State Library Victoria
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- 1888 births
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- Alumni of Newnham College, Cambridge
- Painters from Melbourne
- Australian printmakers
- Australian women artists
- People from Thames Ditton
- Alumni of the Grosvenor School of Modern Art
- Australian women printmakers
- People educated at Melbourne Girls Grammar
- English emigrants to colonial Australia
- Australian people of Scottish descent
- Burials at Brighton General Cemetery
- 20th-century Australian women artists
- Australian women's rights activists