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Ruth Sutherland

{{Short description|Australian painter and art critic}}

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| education = National Gallery School

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Ruth Sutherland (1884–1948), was an Australian painter and art critic. 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=7 April 2018}}

Biography

Sutherland was born in Adelaide in 1884.{{cite web|title=Ruth Sutherland|url=http://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/explore/collection/artist/548/|website=National Gallery of Victoria|accessdate=7 April 2018}} She was granddaughter to notable sketcher George Sutherland, who emigrated to Australia from Scotland.{{Cite web|last=Rosewarne|first=Stuart|date=2011|title=George Sutherland b. 1829|url=https://www.daao.org.au/bio/george-sutherland/biography/|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=13 October 2020|website=Design & Art Australia Online}} She was a pupil of Gwen Barringer in South Australia before coming to Melbourne.{{Cite news|date=1915-05-22|title=Gwen Barringer's Pupils Exhibition.|pages=2|work=Mail (Adelaide, SA : 1912 - 1954)|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article59300724|access-date=2020-10-12}} She attended the National Gallery of Victoria Art School where she was taught by Lindsay Bernard Hall.{{cite web|title=Ruth Sutherland (1884-1948) Australia|url=https://www.artrecord.com/index.cfm/artist/10989-sutherland-ruth/|website=Australian Art Auction Records|accessdate=7 April 2018}}

Sutherland wrote articles for the Melbourne newspaper 'The Age' and to the journal 'Art in Australia' about Max Meldrum{{Cite web|title=No. 3 (1917)|url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-347075105|access-date=2020-10-12|website=Trove|language=en}} and Hilda Rix Nicholas.{{Cite web|title=Trove|url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/233118313?keyword=Ruth%20Sutherland|access-date=2020-10-12|website=trove.nla.gov.au|language=en}}

Sutherland was the niece of the painter Jane Sutherland and the sister of the composer Margaret Sutherland.{{cite web|title=Ruth Sutherland|url=http://www.printsandprintmaking.gov.au/artists/18759/|website=Australian Prints + Printmaking|publisher=National Gallery of Australia|accessdate=7 April 2018}} She was also a cousin of Stella Bowen's.{{cite web|title=Ruth Sutherland b. 1884|url=https://www.daao.org.au/bio/ruth-sutherland/|website=Design & Art Australia Online (DAAO)|accessdate=7 April 2018}} She was a member of the Twenty Melbourne Painters. She had a joint exhibition of oils, watercolours and pastels with fellow artists Dora Wilson and May Roxburgh in 1918.{{Cite news|date=1918-04-29|title=Women Show Pictures |pages=3|work=Herald (Melbourne, Vic. : 1861 - 1954)|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article242523760|access-date=2020-10-12}} Sutherland had a history with Dora Wilson prior to later established artist societies, exhibiting as part of "The Waddy" in 1909, along with Janet Cumbrae Stewart and Norah Gurdon.{{Cite news|date=1909-06-19|title=Exhibition of Pictures |pages=31|work=Weekly Times (Melbourne, Vic. : 1869 - 1954)|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article222258220|access-date=2020-10-12}} She enjoyed doing landscapes, renting a cottage in Lilydale with Bernice Edwell and Florence Rodway to sketch the surrounding country.{{Cite news|date=1918-02-07|title=Social |pages=31|work=Table Talk (Melbourne, Vic. : 1885 - 1939)|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article146645483|access-date=2020-10-13}} She also exhibited with the Yarra Sculptors' Society.{{Cite news|date=1911-09-14|title=Yarra Sculptors' Society Exhibition |pages=44|work=Punch (Melbourne, Vic. : 1900 - 1918; 1925)|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article177532813|access-date=2020-10-13}}

She died in 1948. A memorial exhibition of her work referred to her as "a quiet artist in a mode of painting now largely abandoned" and that her works were most sympathetic.{{Cite news|date=1950-03-07|title=Art show joyous in colour|pages=5|work=Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957)|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article22814794|access-date=2020-10-12}}

Selected works

File:Ruth Sutherland - Still life.jpg| Still life, Private collection

File:Ruth Sutherland - Homestead.jpg|Homestead, Private collection

File:Ruth Sutherland - The Ruin & Trees.webp| The Ruin & Trees, Private collection

File:Ruth Sutherland - Girl in a hammock.jpg| Girl in a hammock, National Gallery of Victoria

Exhibitions

  • 1909, "The Waddy" society of artists, Guild Hall
  • 1909, Federal Art Exhibition, North terrace{{Cite news|date=1910-11-07|title=FEDERAL ART EXHIBITION.|pages=4|work=Register (Adelaide, SA : 1901 - 1929)|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article58159433|access-date=2020-10-12}}
  • 1911, Yarra Sculptors Society, Athenaeum Hall{{Cite news|date=1911-09-14|title=YARRA SCULPTORS' SOCIETY EXHIBITION|pages=44|work=Punch (Melbourne, Vic. : 1900 - 1918; 1925)|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article177532813|access-date=2020-10-12}}
  • 1912, "The Waddy" society (with Dora Taylor and Janet Cumbrae Stewart), Tuckett and Styles' Gallery{{Cite web|title=Artistic Trio. - The Herald (Melbourne, Vic. : 1861 - 1954) - 6 May 1912|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article241635906|access-date=2020-10-12|newspaper=Herald|date=6 May 1912 |language=en}}
  • 1912, Group exhibition (with Dora Wilson and Nora Gurdon), Tuckett and Styles' Gallery{{Cite news|date=1912-05-03|title=GENERAL NEWS.|pages=4|work=Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957)|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article11672571|access-date=2020-10-12}}
  • 1912 Victorian Artists Society autumn exhibition, Albert Street galleries{{Cite news|date=1912-04-15|title=SKETCH SHOW.|pages=6|work=Herald (Melbourne, Vic. : 1861 - 1954)|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article241492118|access-date=2020-10-12}}
  • 1913, Group exhibition, Athenaeum Hall{{Cite news|date=1913-09-02|title=PICTURE EXHIBITION.|pages=12|work=Herald (Melbourne, Vic. : 1861 - 1954)|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article241543871|access-date=2020-10-12}}
  • 1914, Australian Art Association, Athenaeum Hall{{Cite news|date=1914-06-05|title=ART EXHIBITIONS.|pages=5|work=Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957)|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article7286356|access-date=2020-10-12}}
  • 1914, British History Tableaux (in aid of Red Cross), Victorian Artists Society{{Cite news|date=1914-10-31|title=SCENES FROM BRITISH HISTORY: TABLEAUX BY VICTORIAN ARTISTS' SOCIETY, IN AID OF RED CROSS FUND|pages=28|work=Weekly Times (Melbourne, Vic. : 1869 - 1954)|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article121116258|access-date=2020-10-12}}
  • 1914, Twelve Melbourne Painters Society second exhibition, Athenaeum Hall{{Cite news|date=1914-08-17|title=FIRES AT FITZROY.|pages=5|work=Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957)|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article10802254|access-date=2020-10-12}}
  • 1915, Victorian Artists Society twentieth annual exhibition{{Cite news|date=1915-05-06|title=VICTORIAN ARTISTS ANNUAL EXHIBITION.|pages=21|work=Punch (Melbourne, Vic. : 1900 - 1918; 1925)|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article138699042|access-date=2020-10-13}}
  • 1916, Victorian Artists Society annual exhibition{{Cite news|date=1916-05-09|title=VICTORIAN ARTISTS' SOCIETY.|pages=8|work=Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957)|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2097019|access-date=2020-10-12}}
  • 1916, French Week appeal exhibition, Town Hall{{Cite news|date=1916-06-19|title=FRENCH WEEK APPEAL FUND|pages=9|work=Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957)|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2093119|access-date=2020-10-12}}
  • 1917, Australian Art Association fifth annual exhibition{{Cite news|date=1917-10-19|title=COASTAL VIEWS.|pages=2|work=North Western Advocate and the Emu Bay Times (Tas. : 1899 - 1919)|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article64543178|access-date=2020-10-12}}
  • 1918, Group exhibition (with Dora Wilson and May Roxburgh), Fine Art Society
  • 1919, French aid exhibition, Fine Art Galleries{{Cite news|date=1919-05-31|title=EXHIBITION OF PICTURES TO AID CHILDREN OF FRANCE|pages=15|work=Herald (Melbourne, Vic. : 1861 - 1954)|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article243481309|access-date=2020-10-12}}
  • 1919, Twenty Melbourne Painters Society, Athenaeum Gallery{{Cite news|date=1919-08-09|title=TWENTY PAINTERS EXHIBIT.|pages=37|work=Australasian (Melbourne, Vic. : 1864 - 1946)|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article140245020|access-date=2020-10-12}}
  • 1919, Melbourne Society of Women Painters and Sculptors annual exhibition, Victoria Markets{{Cite news|date=1919-11-26|title=WOMEN PAINTERS' EXHIBITION—GARDEN FETE AT SCOTS COLLEGE|pages=14|work=Sydney Mail (NSW : 1912 - 1938)|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article159656703|access-date=2020-10-12}}
  • 1920, Twenty Melbourne Painters Society, Athenaeum Hall{{Cite news|date=1920-08-04|title=TWENTY MELBOURNE PAINTERS|pages=7|work=Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957)|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4592275|access-date=2020-10-12}}
  • 1940, Melbourne Society of Women Painters and Sculptors annual exhibition, Athenaeum Gallery{{Cite news|date=1940-10-14|title="MODERNS" TAKE HONORS IN WOMEN PAINTERS' SHOW|pages=7|work=Herald (Melbourne, Vic. : 1861 - 1954)|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article244454673|access-date=2020-10-12}}
  • 1941, Melbourne Society of Women Painters and Sculptors annual exhibition, Athenaeum Gallery{{Cite news|date=1941-10-22|title=ART AND WAR|pages=6|work=Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957)|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article8211979|access-date=2020-10-12}}
  • 1950, Memorial exhibition for Ruth Sutherland, Melbourne Book Club Gallery

References

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External links

  • [https://www.mutualart.com/Artist/Ruth-Sutherland/ABDD5EC6685846FD images of Ruth Sutherland's paintings] on MutualArt
  • [https://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn146768 Biographical cuttings on Ruth Sutherland], National Library of Australia
  • [http://search.slv.vic.gov.au/permalink/f/1cl35st/SLV_VOYAGER1084722 Ruth Sutherland]: Australian art and artists file, State Library Victoria

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Category:1884 births

Category:1948 deaths

Category:19th-century Australian women artists

Category:20th-century Australian women artists

Category:20th-century Australian artists

Category:Artists from Adelaide

Category:Australian people of Scottish descent

Category:Artists from Melbourne

Category:National Gallery of Victoria Art School alumni