May Grigg

May Grigg
Self portrait ca. 1936
Born	Mabel (May) Grigg 1885 (1885) Hindmarsh, Australia
Died	1969 (aged 83–84) Adelaide, Australia
Nationality	Australian
Known for	Painting

Mabel "May" Grigg (1885–1969),[1] was an Australian painter. She won the Alexander Melrose Prize for portraiture in 1921 and 1922.[2]

Biography

Grigg was born in 1885 in Hindmarsh, South Australia, the third of five daughters of Rachel Grigg, née Worthley, and Thomas Grigg,[2] 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.[2]

Grigg was a council member at the Royal South Australian Society of Arts.[2] Grigg had a career as a teacher. She was senior art mistress at Ballarat Technical Art School[3] and the South Australian School of Arts and Crafts.[4]

Grigg died in 1969[5] in Adelaide.[2]

Her sister Etta Grigg was an accomplished viola player.

References

1. "May Grigg b. 1885". Design & Art Australia Online. Retrieved 4 July 2018.
2. "May Grigg self portrait". State Library of South Australia. Retrieved 4 July 2018.
3. "Artist Leaving". The News. Vol. XV, no. 2, 225. South Australia. 3 September 1930. p. 4. Retrieved 7 February 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
4. "S.A. artist leaving for U.K." The News. Vol. 56, no. 8, 580. South Australia. 6 February 1951. p. 14. Retrieved 7 February 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
5. "May Grigg". Australian Prints + Printmaking. Retrieved 4 July 2018.

External links

• images of May Grigg's work on Australian Art Sales Digest