Muriel Warren Cornish b. 1893

Also known as Muriel W. Cornish, Muriel Cornish
  • Artist ,
  • Artist (Printmaker),
  • Artist (Painter),
  • Designer
Sydney-born illustrator, printmaker, craftsperson and painter. Cornish studied art privately with Albert Collins and attended Julian Ashton's Sydney Art School in the early 1930s. She exhibited embroidery and china painting with the Arts and Crafts Society of NSW until the 1920s and with the Women's Industrial Arts Society in 1936.
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Citations

  • 'NSW Birth Records : 36852/1893’.

  • 'NSW Death Records : 10302/1940’.

  • Powerhouse Museum, 'Hand-painted porcelain teacup, saucer and sideplate’, Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, NSW.

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  • Kingswood, NSW : State Archives of NSW Ms Box, Box K No. 136 768 (original designs).

  • Angeloro, David, 'Dictionary of Australian and New Zealand Painter-Etchers 1800-1940’, CD ROM.

See also

  • 'The Flight c.1923, AGNSW, Indian ink drawing purchased from Society of Women Painters in 1923 for 5 gns (birds and flowering orchard scene).'.

Initial data sources

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