Isabel May Tweddle
{{Short description|Australian painter}}
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| name = Isabel May Tweddle
| image = Isabel May Tweddle, 1933.png
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| caption = Isabel May Tweddle, 1933
| birth_name = Isabel May Hunter
| birth_date = {{birth date|1875|11|26|df=y}}
| birth_place = Deniliquin, New South Wales, Australia
| death_date = {{death date and age|1945|7|9|1875|11|26|df=y}}
| death_place = Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
| nationality = Australian
| education = Melbourne National Gallery School
| field = Painting
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| spouse = {{marriage|Joseph Thornton Tweddle|1904|1943}}
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Isabel May (Diana) Tweddle (1875–1945), was an Australian painter. She was a member of the Melbourne Society of Women Painters and Sculptors and the Twenty Melbourne Painters Society Inc. A number of her paintings are in the collections of the Shepparton Art Museum, the National Gallery of Victoria, and the Art Gallery of New South Wales.
Biography
Tweddle was born Isabel May Hunter on 26 November 1875 in New South Wales.{{cite Australian Dictionary of Biography|last1=|first1=|title=Tweddle, Isabel May (Diana) (1875–1945)|id2=tweddle-isabel-may-diana-8891|accessdate=28 March 2018|last=Peers|first=Juliet|author-link=Juliet Peers}} From 1894–1897 she studied at the National Gallery School in Melbourne.{{cite web|title=Isabel May Tweddle b. 1875|url=https://www.daao.org.au/bio/isabel-may-tweddle/personal_details/|website=Design & Art Australia Online (DAAO)|accessdate=28 March 2018}} There she met fellow artist Ada May Plante.
After her studies she began exhibiting at the Victorian Artists Society. In 1904 she married Joseph Thornton Tweddle, an Australian businessman and philanthropist.{{cite Australian Dictionary of Biography |last1=Lack|first1=John|title=Tweddle, Joseph Thornton (1865–1943)|id2=tweddle-joseph-thornton-8892|accessdate=28 March 2018}} The couple traveled throughout Europe, and lived in London, England in 1921. Tweddle visited Scandinavia and the Pacific (the Solomon Islands, New Guinea, and Japan). Her paintings from those trips were exhibited in London.
Tweddle had an interest in Post-Impressionist art, mainly though the work of Arnold Shore and William Frater. She is thought to have influenced Sybil Craig, Peggie Crombie and Jessie Mackintosh.
She was a member of many artistic groups in Melbourne; the Contemporary Art Group, the Contemporary Art Society, the Melbourne Society of Women Painters and Sculptors, and the Women's Art Club.
Her paintings are in the collections of the Shepparton Art Museum, the National Gallery of Victoria, and the Art Gallery of New South Wales.
Death and legacy
Tweddle died on 9 July 1945 in Melbourne.
Tweddle Place in the Canberra suburb of Chisholm is named in her honour.{{Cite web|title=Schedule 'B' National Memorials Ordinance 1928–1972 Street Nomenclature List of Additional Names with Reference to Origin: Commonwealth of Australia Gazette. Special (National: 1977–2012) – 8 Feb 1978|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article240628906|last=|first=|date=|website=Trove|page=14|language=en|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-04-02}}
Exhibitions
- 1943, from 1 December; Inclusion in a group show of ninety-one paintings and etchings with Arnold Shore, Max Meldrum, John Rowell, Jas. Quinn, John Farmer, Mary Hurry, Dora Serle, Margaret Pestell, Dora Wilson, Allan Jordan, Aileen Dent, Murray Griffin, Geo. Colville, and Victor Cog. Hawthorn Library.{{Cite news |date=2 December 1943 |title=Art exhibition at Hawthorn |pages=4 |work=The Age}}
Gallery
File:Roses by Hunter.jpg|Roses
File:Tweddle-Beach.jpg|Beach Scene
File:Still Life by Hunter.jpg|Still Life
File:Through the Forrest.jpg|Through the Forest
File:Elizabeth Bay by Isabel May Hunter became Isabel May Tweddle.jpg|Elizabeth Bay
References
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External links
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- [https://www.aasd.com.au/index.cfm/list-all-works/?concat=TweddleIsabe Isabel May Hunter Tweddle images] on The Australian Art Sales Digest site
- [http://search.slv.vic.gov.au/permalink/f/1cl35st/SLV_VOYAGER1091001 Isabel Tweddle] [Australian art and artists file], State Library Victoria
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Category:20th-century Australian women artists
Category:20th-century Australian artists