Gwen Barringer

{{Short description|Australian artist (1882–1960)}}

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Gwen Barringer (29 July 1882 – 26 August 1960) was a South Australian artist, known for her watercolours.

Barringer was noted for watercolours of flowers and landscapes, to which she invested a fairyland-like glamour{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article129919088 |title=Glamor in Painting Exhibits |newspaper=The News |location=Adelaide |date=5 June 1951 |access-date=2 November 2013 |page=7 |via=National Library of Australia}} and remained immune to trends and changing fashions. In 1928 following an extensive sketching tour of Europe{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article55060852 |title=Women's Page. |newspaper=The Register |location=Adelaide |date=10 January 1928 |access-date=2 November 2013 |page=4 |via=National Library of Australia}} she held a solo exhibition in Adelaide which achieved a near record sale (over £1000) for an Australian woman.{{cite web |url=http://www.australian-art-and-prints.com/aust_gwendoline_barringer.shtml |title=Australian Artists – Gwendoline L'avance Barringer |publisher=Australian Art and Prints |date=1960-08-26 |access-date=2013-11-03 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130729120220/http://australian-art-and-prints.com/aust_gwendoline_barringer.shtml |archive-date=2013-07-29 }} She died in Adelaide on 26 August 1960 after a long illness. She is represented in the State galleries of South Australia and Victoria, and the National Gallery, Canberra.McCulloch, Alan Encyclopedia of Australian Art Hutchinson of London First Edition, 1968 {{ISBN|0-09-081420-7}}

Barringer studied at the South Australian School of Arts and Crafts under H. P. Gill, Archibald Collins and Hans Heysen. She was a council member of the South Australian Society of Arts for over 30 years, and was also well known as a teacher.

Barringer Street in the Canberra suburb of Conder is named in her honour, as well as her sister-in-law Ethel.{{Cite news|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article237708927|title=National Memorial Ordinance 1928 Determination of Nomenclature Australian Capital Territory National Memorials Ordinance 1928 Determination of Nomenclature|date=1988-08-31|work=Commonwealth of Australia Gazette. Periodic (National : 1977 - 2011)|access-date=2020-01-08|pages=1}}