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Jo Sweatman

{{Short description|Australian painter}}

{{Use Australian English|date=June 2020}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2019}}

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| birth_name = Estelle Mary Sweatman

| birth_date = {{Birth-date|1872}}

| birth_place = South Yarra, Victoria

| death_date = {{Death year and age|1956|1872}}

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| nationality = Australian

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| field = Painting

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| alma_mater = National Gallery School

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Estelle Mary (Jo) Sweatman (1872-1956), was an Australian painter. She was a founding member of the Twenty Melbourne Painters Society.{{cite web|title=Members|url=http://twentymelbournepainterssociety.com.au/home/members/|website=Twenty Melbourne Painters Society Inc|access-date=3 April 2018}}

Early life and training

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Sweatman was born in South Yarra{{Cite news|date=1931-05-09|title=AUSTRALIAN ARTISTS OF TO-DAY|pages=7|work=Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954)|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article205840930|access-date=2020-09-15}} 1872.{{cite web|title=Jo Sweatman|url=https://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/explore/collection/artist/549/|website=National Gallery of Victoria|access-date=3 April 2018}} She took drawing classes at a suburban ladies' college, and was recommended by her teacher to join the National Gallery School, where she studied for two years under Frederick McCubbin. She also studied painting while at the school with Bernard Hall.

Career

Sweatman taught at Melbourne Girls Grammar, where Clarice Beckett was one of her pupils.{{Cite book | author1=Ziegler, Edith Miriam | title=The worlds and work of Clarice Beckett | publication-date=2022 | page=76, n.26| publisher=Arcadia | isbn=978-1-922669-33-9}}

She was initially involved with the Victorian Artists' Society but her support for Max Meldrum eventually led to her being ousted along with friend A.M.E. Bale. She started her career painting portraits but her love of nature and a move to Warrandyte prompted a concentration on landscape, as reported of her 1929 exhibition at the Melbourne Athenaeum in The Cairns Post;

Miss Jo Sweatman, the Melbourne artist, is one who delights to paint the beauties of nature as she finds them on a bush track. There is no gainsaying that some of these bits of sunlight and shade round the gum trees make very attractive landscapes. In Miss Sweatman's recent exhibition at the Athenaeum there were on view "White Gums" and views of more distant tree topped ranges. Warrandyte, a little township on thc Yarra, has for some time been the happy hunting ground of artists, for it has many a beauty spot, and here Miss Sweatman has gone for some of her best bush scenes. Figures and flowers were included in the exhibition but probably most people would covet most one of the bush scenes which are so truly Australian.{{Cite news |date=1929-05-15 |title=A Woman's Letter : Beauties of Nature |pages=14 |work=Cairns Post |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article40672271 |access-date=2023-07-08}}
Building her house 'The Kipsy' next door to fellow artist Clara Southern, they both took an active role in developing the artistic community in Warrandyte, Victoria.{{Cite web|title=Artists Warrandyte - Warrrandyte Historical Society|url=https://whsoc.org.au/artists/|access-date=2020-09-15|website=Warrandyte Historical Society|language=en-US}} She helped establish annual art exhibitions with the Warrandyte Women's Auxiliary Association, serving on a committee of resident artists as secretary.{{Cite news|date=1931-11-20|title=BACK TO WARRANDYTE.|pages=7|work=Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954)|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article203733119|access-date=2020-09-16}}

Sweatman was a founding member of the group, Twenty Melbourne Painters Society, that was formed by students and followers of Australian Tonalist Max Meldrum.{{cite web|title=History|url=http://twentymelbournepainterssociety.com.au/home/history/|website=Twenty Melbourne Painters Society Inc|access-date=3 April 2018}} Sweatman was considered to be one of Australia's most famous painters of wattle.{{Cite news|date=1953-09-16|title=Archibald entry in show|pages=8|work=Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957)|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article23311207|access-date=2020-09-15}}

In 1922 Sweatman was a finalist for the Archibald Prize for her Portrait Miss A.M.E. Bale. The same year A.M.E. Bale was a finalist with her portrait of Miss Jo Sweatman.{{cite web|title=1922|url=https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/prizes/archibald/1922/|website=Archibald Prize|publisher=Art Gallery of New South Wales|access-date=3 April 2018}} Sweatman died in 1956.

Exhibitions

  • South Australian Society of Arts 9th annual exhibition, November 1906{{Cite news|date=1906-11-08|title=SOCIETY OF ARTS.|pages=6|work=Register (Adelaide, SA : 1901 - 1929)|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article56689697|access-date=2020-09-15}}
  • Victorian Artists' Society 18th annual exhibition, East Melbourne Galleries, October 1913{{Cite news|date=1913-10-09|title=VICTORIAN ARTISTS' SOCIETY'S SHOW.|pages=35|work=Punch (Melbourne, Vic. : 1900 - 1918; 1925)|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article176550314|access-date=2020-09-15}}
  • Group exhibition, Athenaeum Gallery, July 1919{{Cite news|date=1919-07-15|title=ART EXHIBITION.|pages=5|work=Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957)|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4716129|access-date=2020-09-15}}
  • Australian Art Association annual exhibition, Athenaeum Gallery, 1–15 October 1920{{Cite news|date=1920-09-30|title=Nature on Canvas|pages=4|work=Herald (Melbourne, Vic. : 1861 - 1954)|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article242317268|access-date=2020-09-15}}
  • Group exhibition (Jo Sweatman, A.M.E. Bale, Bernice Edwell), Athenaeum Gallery, November 1923{{Cite news|date=1923-11-03|title=MELBOURNE EXHIBITIONS.|pages=33|work=Australasian (Melbourne, Vic. : 1864 - 1946)|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article140828871|access-date=2020-09-15}}
  • Twenty Melbourne Painters Society, Queen's Hall, November 1924{{Cite news|date=1924-11-19|title=TWENTY MELBOURNE PAINTERS.|pages=6|work=Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957)|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2071189|access-date=2020-09-16}}
  • Twenty Melbourne Painters Society, Athenaeum Gallery, 15–29 September 1925{{Cite news|date=1925-09-15|title=ART NOTES.|pages=9|work=Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954)|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article155815292|access-date=2020-09-16}}
  • Solo exhibition, Decoration Gallery, May 1926{{Cite news|date=1926-05-29|title=PORTRAITS AND LANDSCAPES.|pages=49|work=Australasian (Melbourne, Vic. : 1864 - 1946)|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article141414292|access-date=2020-09-16}} [http://search.slv.vic.gov.au/permalink/f/1cl35st/SLV_VOYAGER545804 (catalogue)]
  • Twenty Melbourne Painters Society 8th annual exhibition, Athenaeum Gallery, 14–25 September 1926{{Cite news|date=1926-09-14|title=ART NOTES.|pages=11|work=Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954)|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article202560066|access-date=2020-09-16}}
  • Jo Sweatman & A.M.E. Bale, Athenaeum Gallery, 28 March - 9 April 1927{{Cite news|date=1927-03-28|title=DOUBLE SHOW OPENS|pages=4|work=Herald (Melbourne, Vic. : 1861 - 1954)|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article243610332|access-date=2020-09-15}}
  • Twenty Melbourne Painters Society 10th annual exhibition, Athenaeum Gallery, September 1928{{Cite news|date=1928-09-22|title=TWENTY MELBOURNE PAINTERS.|pages=17|work=Australasian (Melbourne, Vic. : 1864 - 1946)|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article141354898|access-date=2020-09-15}}
  • Twenty Melbourne Painters Society 11th annual exhibition, 24 September - 5 October 1929{{Cite news|date=1929-09-24|title=THE TWENTY MELBOURNE PAINTERS.|pages=9|work=Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954)|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article204150893|access-date=2020-09-16}}
  • Solo exhibition, Athenaeum Gallery, April 1929{{Cite news|date=1929-04-22|title=PAINTINGS OF MISS JO. SWEATMAN|pages=4|work=Herald (Melbourne, Vic. : 1861 - 1954)|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article244450261|access-date=2020-09-15}}
  • Australian landscapes, Athenaeum Gallery, 9–20 May 1933{{Cite news|date=1933-05-09|title=Australian Landscapes by Miss Jo Sweatman.|pages=7|work=Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954)|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article203824967|access-date=2020-09-15}}
  • Solo exhibition, Athenaeum Gallery, 30 April - 11 May 1935{{Cite news|date=1935-04-30|title=ART NOTES.|pages=7|work=Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954)|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article204290004|access-date=2020-09-16}} [http://search.slv.vic.gov.au/permalink/f/1cl35st/SLV_VOYAGER1509359 (catalogue)]
  • Solo exhibition, Athenaeum Gallery, May 1937{{Cite news|date=1937-05-03|title=Landscapes Predominate In Three Art Shows|pages=7|work=Herald (Melbourne, Vic. : 1861 - 1954)|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article244626715|access-date=2020-09-15}} [http://search.slv.vic.gov.au/permalink/f/1cl35st/SLV_VOYAGER1509362 (catalogue)]
  • Solo exhibition, Athenaeum Gallery, 18–29 May 1943{{Cite news|date=1943-05-18|title=JO SWEATMAN'S PAINTINGS|pages=9|work=Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957)|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article11332454|access-date=2020-09-15}}
  • Solo exhibition, Athenaeum Gallery, 22 May - 2 June 1945{{Cite news|date=1945-05-22|title=ART EXHIBITION|pages=2|work=Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954)|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article204027997|access-date=2020-09-16}}
  • Twenty Melbourne Painters Society, Athenaeum Gallery, 3–14 September 1946{{Cite news|date=1946-09-03|title=ART EXHIBITIONS REVIEWED|pages=4|work=Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957)|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article22318488|access-date=2020-09-16}}
  • Solo exhibition, Athenaeum Gallery, May 1947{{Cite news|date=1947-05-27|title=ART EXHIBITION FINE WORK BY JO SWEATMAN|pages=2|work=Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957)|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article22428895|access-date=2020-09-15}}

Collections

  • Hamilton Gallery,{{Cite web|title=HG :: Hamilton Gallery|url=http://www.hamiltongallery.org/collection/detail.asp?Artist_LastName=s&Artist_Name=Jo+Sweatman&AccNumber=2013.124|access-date=2020-09-16|website=www.hamiltongallery.org}}
  • Castlemaine Art Museum,{{Cite web|title=Jo Sweatman (b.1872, d.1956)|url=https://collection.castlemainegallery.com/persons/568|access-date=2020-09-16|website=Castlemaine Art Museum Collection Online|language=en}}
  • National Gallery of Victoria.{{Cite web|title=Jo SWEATMAN {{!}} Artists {{!}} NGV|url=https://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/explore/collection/artist/549/|access-date=2020-09-16|website=www.ngv.vic.gov.au}}

References

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External links

  • [https://trove.nla.gov.au/people/1485058?c=people Resources for Jo Sweatman] on Trove, National Library of Australia
  • [https://www.mutualart.com/Artist/Jo-Sweatman/64A134ACCCF33323/Artworks Images of Jo Sweatman's paintings] on MutualArt
  • [http://search.slv.vic.gov.au/permalink/f/1cl35st/SLV_VOYAGER1084739 Jo Sweatman] Australian art and artists file, State Library Victoria
  • [http://search.slv.vic.gov.au/permalink/f/1cl35st/SLV_VOYAGER1635387 Jo Sweatman] [manuscript] biography by Margaret Stephensen, State Library Victoria

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Category:1872 births

Category:1956 deaths

Category:20th-century Australian women artists

Category:20th-century Australian artists

Category:19th-century Australian women artists

Category:Archibald Prize finalists

Category:People from South Yarra, Victoria

Category:Painters from Melbourne

Category:National Gallery of Victoria Art School alumni