Helen Lempriere and Keith Wood papers, 1822, 1894-1995
Helen Lempriere and Keith Wood papers, 1822, 1894-1995
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Date
1822, 1894-1995
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Physical Description
Contents
2.37 metres of textual material (13 boxes and 1 outsize box)
1 videocassette (VHS) (20 mins.)
1 sound tape reel (20 mins.)
Approximately 300 photographs (4 boxes)
5 albums, chiefly photographic prints (2 boxes)
99 slides (1 box)
1 motion picture (1 box)
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Fonds
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Scope and Contents
Contents
This collection chiefly documents the career of Australian painter, Helen Lempriere, and her personal and working relationships with her husband, Keith Wood. The papers include Lempriere's correspondence with fellow artists, curators, gallery owners and patrons, complemented with Woods' papers reflecting his active support of her talent and interna...
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Full title
Helen Lempriere and Keith Wood papers, 1822, 1894-1995
Authors, Artists and Contributors
Author / Creator
Author / Artists
Contextual Information
Source
Bequeathed by Keith Wood, 1995
Administrative / Biographical history
Helen Lempriere (1907-1991), painter and sculptor, was born in Melbourne, daughter of Charles Algernon Lempriere, grazier, and his wife, Dora Elizabeth Octavia, nee Mitchell. She was a niece of Dame Nellie Melba and a great-granddaughter of colonial Tasmanian portrait painter, Thomas James Lempriere. She studied art under Archibald Colquhoun and Ju...
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Primary Identifiers
Record Identifier
1bGMd4kY
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/1bGMd4kY
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Reference code
153144
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