Jessie Traill b. 1881

Also known as Jessie Constance Alicia Traill
  • Artist (Printmaker),
  • Artist (Painter)
Painter and etcher, an outstanding feature of her life was her extensive travelling between France, England and Australia. She received much praise for her etchings and helped popularise the form as an artistic medium in the 1920s.

Citations

  • (December 1989), 'An Australian student of Frank Brangwyn: Jessie C.A. Traill in London and Belgium 1907-1908’, Art Bulletin of Victoria, no. 30, .

  • Lee, Mary Alice (1983), 'The Etched Work of Jessie C.A. Traill 1881-1967’, Victoria : University of Melbourne.

  • McCulloch, A.; and McCulloch, S. (1994), 'The Encyclopedia of Australian Art’, St Leonards, NSW.

  • Moore, W. (1934), 'The Story of Australian Art’, Sydney, NSW : Angus and Robertson.

  • Williamson, C. (1989), 'Industry and Nature: The Etchings of Jessie Traill’, Brisbane, Qld : Queensland Art Gallery.

  • 'Jessie Traill Papers’, Melbourne, VIC : La Trobe Collection, State Library of Victoria.

  • Foott, B., 'Jessie Constance Alicia Traill by her cousin Bethia Foott’, Melbourne, VIC : La Trobe Collection, State Library of Victoria.

See also

  • 'PORTRAIT: Portrait of Jessie Traill in the Uniform of Queen Alexandra's Imperial Nurses c.1918, pastel by Janet Cumbrae Stewart (NGV).'.
  • 'Section 8, plate 341.'.

Initial data sources

  • Heritage: The National Women's Art Book