Jean Isherwood, “Emus on the Plain”, Date Unknown, Oil Paint on Board, 23 x 35 Inches
Australian painter Jean Isherwood, born in 1911, studied at East Sydney Technical College and took Royal Art Society classes with Italian-born art teacher Dattilo Rubbo. Influenced by prevailing modernist movements of the 1930s, she exhibited first in 1934 with the Australian Watercolor Institute, of which she became a member in 1947.
Between 1950 and 1980 Jean Isherwood won 19 prizes for watercolors and 37 for oil paintings. She taught at the National Art School in Sydney from 1961 to 1974. Isherwood was an exacting teacher, placing emphasis on perspective drawing, anatomy and design.
In 1959 Jean Isherwood travelled aroung New South Wales by car. From that time onward, she becamae primarily a landscape painter and a major exhibitor in competitions. Isherwood died at home at the age of ninety-four. Her funeral notice requested the those attending should wear bright colors.
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