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Australian painter and art critic
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Female
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Birth:
1884(Adelaide, South Australia, Australia)
Death:
1948
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National Gallery of Victoria Art School
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The details
Biography
Introduction
Ruth Sutherland (1884–1948), was an Australian painter and art critic. She was a founding member of the Twenty Melbourne Painters Society.
Biography
Sutherland was born in Adelaide in 1884. She attended the National Gallery of Victoria Art School where she was taught by Lindsay Bernard Hall.
Sutherland wrote articles for the Melbourne newspaper 'The Age' and to the journal 'Art in Australia'.
Sutherland was the niece of the painter Jane Sutherland and the sister of the composer Margaret Sutherland. She was also a cousin of Stella Bowen's.She was a member of the Twenty Melbourne Painters.
She died in 1948.