Clara Southern

Photo portrait by Clara Southern

At Old Bee Farm , 1900

Clara Southern (born October 3, 1860 in Kyneton , Australia , † December 15, 1940 in Surry Hills , Australia) was an Australian artist of the Heidelberg School , also known as Australian Impressionism.

Southern studied at the National Gallery of Victoria Art School with George Folingsby and Frederick McCubbin . In Melbourne she shared a studio in the Grosvenor Chambers with Jane Sutherland from 1888 .

In 1908 she had established an artistic community of young landscape painters in Warrandyte , a community on the Yarra River about 30 kilometers from Melbourne . The fellowship included Penleigh Boyd and Harold Herbert. Although their works were admired by the artists of their time, they were not very well known. Southern married John Flinn, but usually exhibited under her original name.

An Old Bee Farm , which can be seen in the National Gallery of Victoria , is one of her best known works. It is one of 56 paintings in Lloyd O'Neil's Classic Australian Paintings and was used as the cover illustration for Kay Schaffer's book Women and the Bush: Forces of Desire in the Australian Cultural Tradition (1988).

Individual evidence

↑ Ann-Katrin Grosse: Southern, Clara . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 105, de Gruyter, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-11-023271-4 , p. 154. via AKLONLINE .

Web links

Commons : Clara Southern - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Clara Southern on ArtistFootsteps.com

personal data
SURNAME	Southern, Clara
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Australian artist
DATE OF BIRTH	October 3, 1860
PLACE OF BIRTH	Kyneton , Australia
DATE OF DEATH	December 15, 1940
Place of death	Surry Hills , Australia

[1] Ann-Katrin Grosse: Southern, Clara . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 105, de Gruyter, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-11-023271-4 , p. 154. via AKLONLINE .