1. Frances Vida Lahey MBE was a prominent artist in Queensland, Australia.
15 Facts About Vida Lahey
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Frances Vida Lahey was born on 26 August 1882 at Pimpama, Queensland, the daughter of Irish-born farmer David Lahey and his wife Jane Jemima.
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Vida Lahey attended Goytelea School at Southport, and later studied painting at the Brisbane Central Technical College under Godfrey Rivers.
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Vida Lahey's uncle financed a trip to New Zealand in 1902 which inspired some of her earliest exhibited works, as well as helping to set her up to study in Melbourne.
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Vida Lahey studied at the National Gallery School, Melbourne under Bernard Hall and Frederick McCubbin in 1905 and again in 1909.
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Vida Lahey was one of the first female artists in Queensland and Australia, who regarded themselves as professionals and who sought to earn a living from practising their art.
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Vida Lahey travelled to Europe in 1927 for further opportunities to study art.
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In 1937 Vida Lahey became a foundation member of, and exhibited with, Robert Menzies' anti-modernist organisation, the Australian Academy of Art.
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Vida Lahey was awarded the Society of Artists Medal in 1945, in appreciation of good services for the advancement of Australian art, the Coronation Medal in 1953 and in 1958 honoured with an MBE for services to art.
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Vida Lahey was a long-term active member of the Royal Queensland Art Society and served on its committee for several years.
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Vida Lahey remained at Wonga Wallen in St Lucia until her death on 29 August 1968 and was cremated.
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Vida Lahey is widely known for her oil paintings, particularly her 1912 painting Monday morning which depicts the Vida Lahey family home.
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Vida Lahey is known to have painted at least two paintings of Wonga Wallen, Canungra in the late 1930s and Wonga Wallen Loggia at Canungra in the 1940s both in the collection of Ms Shirley Vida Lahey.
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Vida Lahey is represented in major Australian art galleries, including the National Gallery of Australia.
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Vida Lahey's painting Monday Morning is part of the Queensland Art Gallery's collection.