May Grigg
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| name = May Grigg
| image = Self portrait of May Grigg.jpg
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| caption = Self portrait ca. 1936
| birth_name = Mabel (May) Grigg
| birth_date = {{Birth year|1885}}
| birth_place = Hindmarsh, Australia
| death_date = {{Death year and age|1969|1885}}
| death_place = Adelaide, Australia
| nationality = Australian
| education = South Australian School of Design
| field = Painting
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Mabel "May" Grigg (1885–1969),{{cite web |title=May Grigg b. 1885 |url=https://www.daao.org.au/bio/may-grigg/ |website=Design & Art Australia Online |accessdate=4 July 2018}} was an Australian painter. She won the Alexander Melrose Prize for portraiture in 1921 and 1922.
Biography
Grigg was born in 1885 in Hindmarsh, South Australia, the third of five daughters of Rachel Grigg, née Worthley, and Thomas Grigg,{{cite web |title=May Grigg self portrait |url=http://digital.collections.slsa.sa.gov.au/nodes/view/633 |website=State Library of South Australia |accessdate=4 July 2018}} a noted violinist, conductor and music teacher. May studied at the South Australian School of Design in Adelaide. Her teachers included Harry Gill and Hans Heysen.
Grigg was a council member at the Royal South Australian Society of Arts. Grigg had a career as a teacher. She was senior art mistress at Ballarat Technical Art School{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article130224895 |title=Artist Leaving |newspaper=The News |volume=XV |issue=2,225 |location=South Australia |date=3 September 1930 |accessdate=7 February 2017 |page=4 |via=National Library of Australia}} and the South Australian School of Arts and Crafts.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article130363413 |title=S.A. artist leaving for U.K. |newspaper=The News |volume=56 |issue=8,580 |location=South Australia |date=6 February 1951 |accessdate=7 February 2017 |page=14 |via=National Library of Australia}}
Grigg died in 1969{{cite web |title=May Grigg |url=http://www.printsandprintmaking.gov.au/artists/8555/ |website=Australian Prints + Printmaking |accessdate=4 July 2018}} in Adelaide.
Her sister Etta Grigg was an accomplished viola player.
References
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External links
- [https://www.aasd.com.au/index.cfm/list-all-works/?concat=GriggMabel images of May Grigg's work] on Australian Art Sales Digest
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Category:20th-century Australian women artists
Category:20th-century Australian artists
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