Violet Teague
(Australia 1872–1951)
- Title
- Dian dreams (Una Falkiner)
- Year
- 1909
- Media category
- Painting
- Materials used
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
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159.0 x 108.2cm stretcher; 167.8 x 115.6 x 6.5cm frame
- Signature & date
- Signed and dated l.r. corner, brown oil "Violet Teague 1909".
- Credit
- Gift of the sitter's daughter, Lawre Bruce Steer 1975
- Accession number
- 60.1975
- Location
- 19th c Australian art
- Further information
Violet Teague achieved recognition as a fashionable portrait painter in the early 1900s, having studied in Brussels, London and Melbourne. Her painting 'Dian dreams' is an assured study, on a grand scale, of Mrs Una Falkiner, a famous beauty of her time and a student at the National Gallery of Victoria Art School. The work constructs a quintessentially female world, in line with approved roles for women of the period, and yet it is larger than this in its unusual profile view of an entirely confident and sophisticated woman for whom the spectator is virtually irrelevant. It was awarded a bronze medal at the Panama Pacific exhibition in San Francisco in 1915.
Teague is also recognised for her Japanese style prints depicting the Australian bush.
- Bibliography (14)
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Jill Dupleix (Australia) (Author), Jane Miller (Australia) (Author), The Women's Cookbook, Victoria, 1992, 144 (colour illus.).
Joan Kerr (Australia, b.1938, d.2004) (Editor), Heritage: The national women's art book, Sydney, 1995, 21, 461.
Caroline Ambrus (Author), Australian Women Artists, First Fleet to 1945: History, Hearsay and Hersay, Woden, circa 1992, 192 (colour illus.). plate no. 16
Victoria Hammond (Author), Juliet Peers (Author), Completing the Picture: Women artists and the Heidelberg era, Hawthorn East, 1992, 6 (colour illus.). plate no. 6
Janine Burke (Australia, b.1952) (Author), Australian women artists diary, Birchgrove, circa 1993, cover (colour illus.).
Suzanne Falkiner (Author), Ethel a love story, Sydney, 1996, illus.. This image appears between pages 148 and 149.
'Review; Melbourne Scene' by Jeanette Hoorn, pg. 146-147., Art and Australia (Vol. 37, No. 1) 1999, 1999, 146 (illus.).
Jane Clark (Australia) (Editor), Felicity Druce (Australia) (Editor), Violet Teague, Roseville, 1999, 17 (colour illus.), 30-31, 49, 51-53, 56, 126-127. plate no. 6
The art of Violet Teague 1872-1951 - Education Kit 1999, 1999, cover (colour illus.).
'No shrinking Violet' by Bruce James., The Sydney Morning Herald 13 May 2000, 13 May 2000, page unknown. Review of the exhibition 'The art of Violet Teague' at the SH Ervin Gallery.
'Lest we forget' by Anne Latreille., Age 24 Jul 1999, 24 Jul 1999, page unknown. Review of the exhibition 'The art of Violet Teague', touring Australia 1999-2000.
'Painter strives for top of tree', by Catherine Lambert., Sunday Herald Sun 12 Dec 1999, 12 Dec 1999, page unknown. Review of the exhibition 'The art of Violet Teague', touring Australia 1999-2000, in 'The Arts' section.
'Not quite a modern woman' by Robert Nelson., The Sunday age 13 Feb 2000, 13 Feb 2000, page unknown. Review of the exhibition 'The art of Violet Teague', touring Australia 1999-2000.
'The picture show women'., The Sydney Morning Herald 03 Jun 2000, 03 Jun 2000, page unknown. Review of the exhibitions 'The art of Violet Teague', 'Politically incorrect: the art of Clarice Beckett', and the Olive Cotton retrospective.
- Exhibition history (9)
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The Panama-Pacific International Exposition, 20 Feb 1915–04 Dec 1915.
Completing the Picture: Women artists and the Heidelberg Era, Castlemaine Art Gallery and Historical Museum, 13 Jul 1992–16 Aug 1992.
Completing the Picture: Women artists and the Heidelberg Era, Benalla Art Gallery, 28 Aug 1992–27 Sep 1992.
The Art of Violet Teague (1872-1951), Geelong Art Gallery, 18 Jul 1999–01 Sep 1999.
The Art of Violet Teague (1872-1951), Mornington Peninsula Arts Centre, 10 Sep 1999–31 Oct 1999.
The Art of Violet Teague (1872-1951), Art Gallery of Hamilton, 09 Nov 1999–12 Dec 1999.
The Art of Violet Teague (1872-1951), The Ian Potter Museum of Art, 17 Dec 1999–12 Mar 2000.
The Art of Violet Teague (1872-1951), Bendigo Art Gallery, 18 Mar 2000–23 Apr 2000.
The Art of Violet Teague (1872-1951), S.H. Ervin Gallery, 06 May 2000–11 Jun 2000.
