Edith Cusack
(New Zealand, Australia 1865?–1941)
- Title
- Aline
- Year
- (1890s)
- Media category
- Pastel
- Materials used
- pastel on linen
- Dimensions
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48.2 x 37.8cm stretcher
- Signature & date
- Signed and dated l.r., "E.E. Cusack/ [1894?]".
- Credit
- Purchased 1894
- Accession number
- 933
- Location
- Not on display
- Further information
Edith Cusack was born in New Zealand but moved with her family to NSW, aged three. In Sydney she was taught by Joseph Arthur Bennett (1853-1929) and was his assistant. In Paris in the early 1890s she studied under William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825-1905) and attended the Académie Julian. She returned to Sydney in 1894 and shared studios with her sister Aline (c1867-1949), the subject of this pastel, taught art and exhibited regularly with the Royal Art Society of New South Wales.
The Gallery also has an oil by Edith Cusack of her sister, painted in 1896.
excerpt from Hendrik Kolenberg, Anne Ryan and Patricia James, '19th century Australian watercolours, drawings & pastels in the Gallery's collection', Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2005
- Bibliography (5)
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'Australian images from the past: whether rarely seen or familiar, these works move and delight us' by Hendrik Kolenberg, pg. 24-27., Look Apr 2005, Apr 2005, 27.
Hendrik Kolenberg (Netherlands; Australia) (Author), Anne Ryan (Australia) (Author), Patricia James (Author), 19th century Australian watercolours, drawing and pastels from the Gallery's collection, Domain, 2005, 116, 117 (colour illus.).
Lionel Lindsay (Australia, b.1874, d.1961) (Author), 150 years of Australian art, Sydney, 1938. not paginated, cat.no. 547 [Gallery No. 5]
John Young (Australia), Henry Gibbons (Australia, b.1884, d.1972), The Sydney Art School retrospective exhibition 1890-1933, Sydney, 1933. cat.no. 243
Royal Art Society of New South Wales (Australia, estab. 1880) (Author), Art Society of New South Wales Fifteenth Annual Exhibition Catalogue, 1894. cat.no. 120
- Exhibition history (4)
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The Sydney Art School retrospective exhibition, 1890-1933, Vickery's Galleries, 01 Mar 1933–28 Mar 1933.
Australia's 150th anniversary celebrations: All Australian art exhibition (1938), National Art Gallery of New South Wales, Jan 1938–Apr 1938.
150 years of Australian art (1938), National Art Gallery of New South Wales, 27 Jan 1938–25 Apr 1938.
Centenary celebration: First Australian Exhibition of Women's Work 1907, Castlemaine Art Gallery and Historical Museum, 21 Oct 2007–09 Dec 2007.
