Lucy Newell

Lucy Newell
Born	29 September 1906 Castlemaine, Victoria
Died	22 May 1987 (aged 80) Woodend, Victoria
Education	National Gallery School
Known for	Painting, Textile printing

Lucy Colgate Newell (29 September 1906 – 22 May 1987) was an Australian artist noted for painting and textile printing.[1]

Biography

Newell was born in 1906 in Castlemaine, Victoria to artist Alice Newell[1] and her husband Lt. Colonel Francis Sargent Newell, a solicitor.[2] She was educated at St Catherine's School and took Saturday morning art classes at Castlemaine Technical School with Miss Naples.[3] She later did classes in watercolour painting one afternoon a week with Miss Ethel Crook of Bendigo.[3] Newell studied at the National Gallery School for five years under Bernard Hall but found she didn't much enjoy portraiture or oil painting,[3] and instead took up textile printing with linocut on cotton fabric.[3]

Her mother Alice was a co-founder of the Castlemaine Art Museum[4] with whom Newell later exhibited in 1971[5] and which holds her artwork in their collection.[6] She also has work in the National Gallery of Australia's collection[7] and at Buda Historic Home & Garden.[8]

Newell briefly had to give up artistic pursuits to care for her elderly parents, but spent ten years in Woodend creating work she wanted to do.[3] She died there on 22 May 1987.[1][9]

References

1. "Lucy Newell". Australian Prints and Printmaking. Centre for Australian Art. Archived from the original on 7 February 2023. Retrieved 14 October 2020.
2. "Alice Newell". People Australia. National Centre of Biography at the Australian National University. Archived from the original on 15 October 2023. Retrieved 14 October 2020.
3. "Newell, Lucy (1906-)". Trove. Archived from the original on 15 October 2023. Retrieved 14 October 2020.
4. Miller, Jane (31 August 2020). "A turn around the garden: Victorian flora in the State collection". State Library Victoria. Archived from the original on 8 March 2023. Retrieved 15 October 2020.
5. "Lucy Newell (1906-87) Australia". Australian Art Auction Records. Archived from the original on 15 October 2023. Retrieved 15 October 2020.
6. "Gallery Collection - Works by Newell, Lucy (1906-1987)". Castlemaine Art Gallery. Archived from the original on 14 May 2021. Retrieved 15 October 2023.
7. Newell, Lucy. "Food cover". Item held by National Gallery of Australia. Retrieved 15 October 2020.
8. "The Collection - Domestic items and personal effects - Decorative arts". Buda Historic Home & Garden. Archived from the original on 15 October 2023. Retrieved 15 October 2020.
9. "Search Results: Lucy Colgate Newell". Public Record Office Victoria. Archived from the original on 15 October 2023. Retrieved 15 October 2020.

External links

• Lucy Newell: Australian art and artists file, State Library Victoria
• Works by Lucy Newell in State Library Victoria collection