Rose A. Walker
{{Short description|Australian painter}}
{{Hatnote|For the American poet and education with a similar name, see Rhoza A. Walker.}}
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| birth_place = Walhalla, Victoria, Australia
| death_date = {{Death year and age|1942|1879}}
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| nationality = Australian
| education = Bendigo School of Mines
| field = Painting
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| spouse = George Hartrick
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File:Rose A. Walker (1900) News from the Front.jpg
File:Rose A. Walker - Yachts on bay.jpg]]
Rose A. Walker (1879–1942), was an Australian painter and miniaturist. 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|date=24 July 2017|accessdate=8 April 2018}}
Biography
Walker was born in Walhalla in 1879.{{cite web|title=Walker, Rose A. (1879-1942)|url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/people/1483903?c=people|website=Trove|publisher=National Library of Australia|accessdate=9 April 2018}} She attended the Bendigo School of Mines where she studied under Arthur T. Woodward. She then moved to Melbourne where she studied with Max Meldrum.{{cite web|title=Rose A. Walker b. 1879|url=https://www.daao.org.au/bio/rose-a-walker/biography/|website=Design & Art Australia Online (DAAO).|accessdate=9 April 2018}}
Bendigo Art Gallery displayed her narrative painting, a watercolour, News from the Front, in its Victorian Gold Jubilee exhibition of 1901-1902, and its subsequent purchase from admission fees and art union was debated in a drawn-out selection process of elimination over April–June 1902,{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article88561192 |title=The Bendigo Advertiser |newspaper=Bendigo Advertiser |volume=L |issue=14,580 |location=Victoria, Australia |date=22 April 1902 |accessdate=14 January 2025 |page=2 |via=National Library of Australia}} in which it remained the only work by a woman and in competition against eight notables including Gustave Doré, Rupert Bunney, Julian Ashton and J. Ford Patterson.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article88565500 |title=Bendigo Art Gallery. |newspaper=Bendigo Advertiser |volume=L |issue=14,622 |location=Victoria, Australia |date=10 June 1902 |accessdate=14 January 2025 |page=4 |via=National Library of Australia}} Ultimately the Gallery purchased the large Doré Joseph's Flight Into Egypt.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article9076589 |title=Bendigo. |newspaper=The Argus (Melbourne) |issue=17,594 |location=Victoria, Australia |date=2 December 1902 |accessdate=14 January 2025 |page=6 |via=National Library of Australia}}{{Cite web |last=Gustave |first=Doré |date=1875 |title=Joseph's Flight into Egypt |url=https://collection.bendigoartgallery.com.au/objects/148 |access-date=14 January 2025 |website=Bendigo Art Gallery Collection}} News from the Front was shown as a non-competitive entry in the Australian Exhibition of Women's Work and gifted by the artist to Castlemaine Art Museum in 1940.{{Cite web |last=Walker |first=Rose A. |date=1900 |title=News from the Front |url=https://collection.castlemaineartmuseum.org.au/objects/216/news-from-the-front |access-date=14 January 2025 |website=Castlemaine Art Museum Online Collection}}
Walker exhibited her work around Melbourne at the Victorian Artists Society, and the Athenaeum Gallery. She showed her work under the name "Mrs George Hartrick" after she wed.
She was a member of the Victorian Artists Society, the Twenty Melbourne Painters Society and the Melbourne Society of Women Painters and Sculptors.
In 2013 Walker was included in the exhibition Towards Perth: Western Australian Women Artists Before 1950 at the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery in Crawley, Australia.{{cite web|title=Towards Perth: Western Australian Women Artists Before 1950|url=http://www.lwgallery.uwa.edu.au/exhibitions/past/2013/towardsperth|website=Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery|publisher=The University of Western Australia|accessdate=9 April 2018}}
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Category:19th-century Australian women artists
Category:20th-century Australian women artists