1. Elsie Barlow was a founding member of Twenty Melbourne Painters.
14 Facts About Elsie Barlow
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Elsie Barlow was the first woman to have a solo exhibition in Castlemaine, Victoria.
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Elsie Frederica Barlow nee Hake was born in 1876 in Melbourne, Australia.
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Elsie Barlow was one of seven children, the youngest of six girls born to Sidney Hake and Charlotte Hemsley.
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In 1894, Barlow enrolled at the Gallery School of Design where she was taught by Frederick McCubbin and Lindsay Bernard Hall.
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Elsie Barlow attended the National Gallery School with her sister Dora Serle.
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Elsie Barlow was represented in an exhibition of Australian art at the Grafton Galleries London in 1898.
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Elsie Barlow's painting Welcome News came second to Max Meldrum for the National Gallery School Travelling Scholarship in 1897.
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In 1912 Elsie Barlow held a one woman show at the Mechanics' Institute in Castlemaine, where she displayed 90 paintings.
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Elsie Barlow had a studio in Collins Street with her sister Dora from 1899 to 1901.
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Elsie Barlow moved to Melbourne in 1916 and Arthur died shortly after.
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Elsie Barlow opened a new studio in the Dunklings Building in Melbourne in 1919, holding an exhibition of 76 paintings and 6 pen drawings in June of that year.
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Elsie Barlow was a founding member of the Twenty Melbourne Painters Society.
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Elsie Barlow died in a private hospital in Mentone, Victoria on 15 November 1948.