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Students Monday morning 1912 launched Vida Lahey's career when it was exhibited at the annual exhibition of the Queensland Art Society, Brisbane, in 1912. The painting shows in vivid colour and detail two women doing the weekly wash with copper tubs and bar soap at the Lahey family home, Greylands, in Indooroopilly, Brisbane.
The Chinese jar, circa 1934 by Vida Lahey The Collection Art Gallery NSW
Art and nature is an accomplished mid-career work and one of Vida Lahey's most complex still-life paintings. By depicting a classical plaster bas-relief by sculptor Daphne Mayo beside a book on Matisse and a jug of bold orange Mexican sunflowers, Lahey explores the clash between the traditional and the modern. The compositional swirl encloses these […]
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Vida Lahey was a prominent Australian artist, associated with the (Royal) Queensland Art Society from 1908. With Daphne Mayo, Lahey was a co-founder of the Queensland Art Fund. Impact On Brisbane Society Vida Lahey learned painting from Godfrey Rivers at Brisbane Technical College, then studied at the National Gallery School,…
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Frances Vida Lahey MBE (1882—1968) was a prominent artist in Queensland, Australia. She exhibited widely from 1902 until 1965. [1] Early life Frances Vida Lahey was born on 26 August 1882 at Pimpama, Queensland, the daughter of David Lahey and his wife, Jane Jemima, (née Walmsley). She had eleven siblings including conservationist Romeo Lahey.
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Also known as Frances Vida Lahey Artist (Painter) A traditional painter specializing in still life and landscape subjects, but is probably best known for Monday Morning, a painting of women's domestic labour.. She was a great contributor to the art scene in Queensland and was very involved with art education at the fledgling Queensland Art.
Vida Lahey Still Life with Wattle c. 1950's Fellia Melas Gallery Australian Antique & Art
Monday morning 1912 by Vida Lahey (1882-1968). Oil on canvas - a gift of Madame Emily Coungeau through the Queensland Art Society 1912. Held in the collection of the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art.. ONE OF QUEENSLANDS MOST BELOVED ARTISTS - VIDA LAHEY Dec 06 2023 Updated December 6, 2023. Guest Writer. 3 min read. by.
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One of Australia's best known woman artists, Lahey was born at Pimpama, a northern suburb of the Gold Coast, and although she studied and travelled widely to London and Europe, she always returned to Brisbane where she lived and painted for most of her life. Vida Lahey in her studio
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Throughout her life, Lahey was a strong advocate for a new dedicated home for Queensland's art collection and, although this dream remained unfulfilled at the time of her death in 1968, we acknowledge her tireless work and advocacy for the Queensland Art Gallery and for arts education in Queensland. Jacklyn Young is Senior Librarian, QAGOMA
Vida Lahey Known for her distinctive flower studies QAGOMA Blog
An argument is presented that Queensland artist Vida Lahey's most famous work, 'Monday Morning', has often obscured her more significant contribution to Australian art. Lahey's handling of brilliant colour, particularly in watercolours of floral still lifes, continued to receive critical approval in exhibitions across Australia from the 1920s..
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This article concentrates on artist Vida Lahey's Queensland-based activism for children's art classes in the context of progressive ideas that circulated between the wars. I argue that Lahey functioned within a wider, well-informed, democratic elite.
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About Vida Lahey (1882-1968) is one of Queensland's best loved artists, recognised as much for her work in promoting art and art education in Queensland as for her own paintings.
Vida Lahey and the battle for culture in Queensland — Atelier Art Classes
Vida Lahey (1882-1968) is one of Queensland's best loved artists, recognised as much for her work in promoting art and art education in Queensland as for her own paintings.
Flowers and drapery, circa 1931 by Vida Lahey The Collection Art Gallery NSW
Vida Lahey was an Australian painter who was born in 1882. Numerous key galleries and museums such as NERAM, New England Regional Art Museum have featured Vida Lahey's work in the past.
Vida Lahey Known for her distinctive flower studies QAGOMA Blog
Vida Lahey :: biography at :: at Design and Art Australia Online Vida Lahey b. 1882 Also known as Frances Vida Lahey Artist (Painter) A traditional painter specializing in still life and landscape subjects, but is probably best known for Monday Morning, a painting of women's domestic labour.
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Frances Vida Lahey MBE was a prominent artist in Queensland, Australia. She exhibited widely from 1902 until 1965.