Norah Gurdon (1882 - 1974)
Norah Gurdon
Norah Gurdon was an Australian artist. Gurdon attended the National Gallery School from 1901 to 1908, being taught by noted artists Frederick McCubbin and Bernard Hall. An accomplished landscape and still-life painter, Gurdon exhibited her works with the Victorian Artists Society while still a student. She established her artistic prowess early on by winning the major category for oil painting in the 1909 City of Prahran's Art Exhibition Prize.
Norah Gurdon was a regular and successful exhibitor of work, exhibiting with the Victorian Artists Society, Melbourne Society of Women Painters and Sculptors, and the Australian Art Association. In the 1920s she held many solo exhibitions at the Athenaeum Gallery, and later at the Women's Industrial Arts Society in Sydney, and the Royal Queensland Art Society in Brisbane.
| Date and place of birt: | April 1882, United Kingdom |
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| Date and place of death: | 27 june 1974, Kalorama, Australia |
| Nationality: | United Kingdom, Australia |
| Period of activity: | XIX, XX century |
| Specialization: | Artist, Landscape painter, Painter |
| Art school / group: | Heidelberg School |
| Genre: | Genre art, Landscape painting, Mountain landscape, Rural landscape, Still life |
| Art style: | Impressionism, Post-Impressionism |
