Florence Aline Rodway b. 11 November 1881

Also known as Florence Rodway, Mrs Walter Moore
  • Artist (Draughtsman),
  • Artist (Painter)
Florence Aline Rodway had a splendid career as a portraitist but preferred to do more complex compositions with figures. Together with artists such as Thea Proctor, Margaret Preston, Sir John Longstaff, Arthur Streeton and Hans Heysen she represented Australia in the second London exhibition of contemporary art of the Empire at the Imperial Institute in South Kensington in 1928.
Tags: painter, Portraiture, Pastel artist

Citations

  • (1 January 1910), 'The Australian Girl as seen by Florence Rodway’, 282(?), series.

  • ed. Kerr, Joan, 'Florence Aline Rodway by Bell, Pamela’, Heritage, Craftsman House, Sydney, NSW.

  • Ambrus, Caroline (1984), 'The Ladies’ Picture Show’, Sydney, NSW.

  • Souter, D. H. (1909), 'Miss Florence Rodway: Comments on her work’, Art and Architecture, 6.

  • (1916), Art in Australia, 1.

  • (1 April 1910), 'The Art of the Year’, Lone Hand, 665.

  • Interview with Hazel de Berg (8 December 1965), 'Rodway, Florence’, National Library of Australia, Canberra, oral history tape 156.

  • Letter from Collins, Susanne (the artist’s daughter) (1983), DAA.

  • Backhouse, Sue (1988), 'Florence Rodway’, Australian Dictionary of Biography 11, ed. Pike, D., Shaw, A., Clark, M., Nairn,B., Serle, G., and Ward, R., vols 1-6, Melbourne 1966/1976 (1988) and Tasmanian Artists of the Twentieth Century, Hobart 1988.

  • (1918), Art in Australia, 4.

See also

  • 'Vera Cosgrove, 1905, pastel on paper on canvas, National Library of Australia, Canberra, ACT PIC R11311.'.

Initial data sources

  • Heritage with additions