Item 02: Pitt Street, [ca. 1935] / Dora Jarret

ML 1306

item

ca. 1935

Graphic Materials, Drawings

1038152

1 drawing - watercolour - inside frame 43.6 cm x 33.4 cm, with frame 52 x 42.1 cm

Dora Jarret was a Sydney painter, teacher, illustrator, graphic artist and cartoonist. She was born in Sydney in 1895 of French ancestry. She was a contemporary of Margaret Coen and Douglas Stewart, Grace Cossington-Smith, Alison Rehfisch. She studied at the Dattilo Rubo Art School in Sydney, as well as in Paris.

She shared a studio in a condemned building owned by the Electricity Commission (8 Bridge Street), near Circular Quay with fellow students, Alison Rehfisch and George Duncan.

In the 1920s Jarret exhibited with the Royal Art Society, had her work in the Australian Art Society’s first exhibition (1927) and was a regular exhibitor with the Australian Watercolour Institute. She had the first one-woman show in Brisbane in 1929.

Reference:
A dictionary of women artists of Australia / Max Germaine ; foreword by Anne von Bertouch. Tortola, BVI : Craftsman House BVI ; Roseville East, N.S.W. : distributed in Australia by Craftsman House, c1991

With Rehfisch, Neville Barker and Arthur Murch, she exhibited as 'Four Young Artists’ at Farmer’s Blaxland Galleries in 1929.

Jarret and Margaret Coen were good friends and took French language classes together.
Jarret mainly painted landscapes, old houses and portraits in oil and watercolour. She also illustrated Henry Handel Richardson’s The Bath, published in 1933, with elegant drawings of four pubescent girls in various stages of undress. She also designed bookplates.

Reference:
‘Dora Jarret’, Design and Art Online. http://www.daao.org.au/bio/dora-jarret/biography/? (accessed 26 November, 2012)

Jarret was living in Neutral Bay in later life. Her works are in the National Gallery of Australia and Art Gallery of NSW.

Copyright status:: In copyright - Life of creator plus 70 years
Copyright holder:: Assignee of Dora Jarrett
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Frame by Charles Hewitt Frames Pty Ltd

Signed lower left

Identified by cataloguer as 54b Pitt Street, see: Home and Away - 34834

Dated by cataloguer