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Margaret Alice , 1900

Violet Teague

Margaret Alice , 1900

oil on canvas

Art Gallery of New South Wales. Purchased 2017 with funds provided by the Australian Masterpiece Fund, including the following major donors: Barbara Gole (in memory of), Antoinette Albert, Anita & Luca Belgiorno-Nettis am, Andrew Cameron am & Cathy Cameron, Krystyna Campbell-Pretty & the late Harold Campbell-Pretty, Rowena Danziger am & Ken Coles am, Kiera Grant, Alexandra Joel & Philip Mason, Carole Lamerton & John Courtney, Alf Moufarrige ao, Elizabeth Ramsden, Susan Rothwell, Denis Savill, Penelope Seidler am, Denyse Spice, Georgie Taylor, Max & Nola Tegel, Ruth Vincent
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Off her own bat
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Dian dreams (Una Falkiner)
The staff, Prisoner of War Section, Australian Red Cross, London [Mary Chomley in centre]
Mary Chomley

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Portrait of a Pioneer , 1917 Violet Teague
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Portrait of a Pioneer , 1917 Violet Teague
Portrait of a Pioneer , 1917 Violet Teague

Off her own bat

Magazine article by Joanna Gilmour, 2022

Joanna Gilmour profiles Violet Teague, whose sophisticated works hid her originality and non-conformity in plain sight.
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