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May Marsden

(Australia 1876–1968)

Title
The boat pool, Newcastle
Year
(circa 1929)
Media category
Print
Materials used
etching, printed in brown ink with plate tone on cream mulberry paper
Edition
edition number unknown
Dimensions

17.3 x 22.4cm platemark; 19.0 x 26.3cm sheet (irreg.)

Signature & date
Signed l.r., pencil "M Marsden". Not dated.
Credit
Gift of Portia M Bennett 1980
Accession number
215.1980
Location
Not on display
Further information

May Marsden was born at Church-Stoke, Montgomeryshire, Wales and studied under Fred Simmonds at Wirksworth, Derbyshire and the Derby Central School of Art. She was awarded a teacher's certificate at the Royal College of Art, South Kensington, London in 1897. She arrived in Australia in 1913 with her parents and settled in Sydney. She taught at a number of schools and was appointed a lecturer in art at Sydney Teachers College in 1915, where she remained until 1941; her students included James Gleeson, Rah Fizelle and Bernard Smith who remembers her keen interest in the modern movement. She exhibited with the Australian Watercolour Institute in Sydney.

A second etching 'Pyrmont Bridge' and a watercolour 'Magnolias' is in the Gallery's collection. 'The boat pool, Newcastle' was exhibited in 1929 with the Australian Painter-Etchers' Society, Sydney.

Hendrik Kolenberg and Anne Ryan, 'Australian prints from the Gallery's collection', AGNSW, Sydney 1998

Bibliography (4)

Anne Ryan (Australia) (Author), Australian etchings and engravings 1880s–1930s from the Gallery's collection, Domain, 2007, 28 (colour illus.). cat.no. 37

'When prints ruled' by Anne Ryan, pg. 25-27., Look May 2007, May 2007, 27 (colour illus.).

Hendrik Kolenberg (Netherlands; Australia) (Author), Anne Ryan (Australia) (Author), Australian prints from the Gallery's collection, Sydney, 1998, 53 (colour illus.). cat.no. 41

Anna Waldmann (Australia) (Author), Project 39 - Women's Imprint, Domain, 1982. no catalogue numbers; not paginated

Exhibition history (2)

Project 39 - Women's Imprint (1982), Art Gallery of New South Wales, 01 Oct 1982–31 Oct 1982.

Australian prints from the Gallery's collection (1998-1999), Art Gallery of New South Wales, 06 Nov 1998–07 Feb 1999.