Jessamine Buxton
{{short description|South Australian artist and sculptor}}
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Jessamine Victoria Alexandrine Buxton (1895–1966) was a South Australian artist and sculptor.
Career
Buxton was educated at Adelaide High School and won a scholarship to study at the South Australian Royal Society of Arts.{{Cite news|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article55831770|title=Woman Artist of Achievement|date=1936-08-08|work=Mail (Adelaide, SA : 1912 - 1954)|access-date=2020-03-12|pages=2}} She later won a travelling scholarship but was not permitted to take it up by her father. She stayed in South Australia all her life and painted and exhibited regularly in Adelaide.{{Cite journal|last=Hylton|first=Jane|date=15 April – 17 July 1994|title=South Australian Women Artists paintings from the 1890s to the 1940s|journal=Art Gallery Board of South Australia|pages=30}}
In 1915, Buxton designed a patriotic Christmas card for soldiers, wishing them luck at the Front and a safe return home.{{Cite news|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article8654184|title=PERSONAL.|date=1915-11-11|work=Advertiser (Adelaide, SA : 1889 - 1931)|access-date=2020-03-12|pages=6}}https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/catalog/7085497
After years of study, Buxton began to teach at the South Australian School of Arts and Crafts. She had a major impact as an art educator and influenced South Australian sculptor and artist John Stuart Dowie.{{Cite web|url=https://fairviewofsubiaco.com.au/still-life/|title=Fairview Art Collection Still Life|website=Fairview Historic Home}} Dowie was also taught by Marie Tuck, another influential South Australian women artist and teacher of the same era.
Awards
Offered the Society of Arts prize, a travelling scholarship.
1936 First Prize in the Autumn Exhibition for Still Life No 11 Zinnias.{{Cite news|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article74159323|title=Opening of Autumn Art Exhibition|date=3 April 1936|work= Adelaide Advertiser|page=19}}
Society of Arts prize for modelling.{{Cite news|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article129180651|title=News|date=4 August 1927|work= News (Adelaide, SA: 1923 - 1954), Thursday 4 Aug 1927 p 8.|page=8}}
Media
Buxton used included pastels, watercolours, sculpture, silverpoint drawing, miniature painting, china painting and needlework.{{Cite book|last=Ambrus|first=Caroline|title=The Ladies' Picture Show Sources on a century of Australian women artists|publisher=Hale & Iremonger|year=1984|isbn=0-86806-160-3|location=Sydney, NSW|pages=71}} During the war, Dr Henry Newland assigned Buxton the task of sketching human organs after they were removed. There was such a shortage of photographers then.{{Citation needed|date=April 2020}}
References
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Further reading
- {{citation |title=Royal South Australian Society of Arts Inc. |page=214 |date=2009 |first1=Anne |last1=Kalon}}
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Category:Artists from South Australia
Category:20th-century Australian women artists