: Jean Isherwood :

4 April 2007

JEAN de Courtenay ISHERWOOD (1911 – 2006)

Studies:
East Sydney Technical College 1926 – 1928 Evening Classes
Royal Art Society Sydney 1931 -1936 with artist Dattilo Rubbo
Influenced by prevailing modernist movements of the 1930s Jean exhibited first in 1934 with the Australian Watercolour Institute of which she became a Member in 1947.
Between 1950 and 1980 Jean won 19 prizes for watercolour and 37 for oil paintings.
Jean married John Dabron in 1940 and their daughter Jacqueline Dabron is also a painter with whom she has exhibited. Jean Isherwood has held about 12 solo exhibitions from 1946 to 1992 in Sydney, Brisbane and Regional New South Wales.
Information from p. 364 The Encyclopaedia of Australian Art Allen & Unwin Revised & Updated by Susan McCulloch, 1994

The first solo exhibition at Artarmon Galleries was held in October 1986 for which the theme of the 36 oil paintings was Dorothea Mackellar’s poem ‘I love a Sunburnt Country’. The 32 watercolour paintings of the same theme had been previously acquired by the Dorothea Mackellar Trust and are now hanging in the new Cultural Centre, Gunnedah New South Wales. Jean’s second solo exhibition in October 1990 of 21 watercolours and 15 oil paintings of the landscape around the Moonbi Ranges where she lived proved as much a delight to our gallery collectors as the three paintings we have illustrated for you.

1. JEAN ISHERWOOD Cessnock Oil on Canvas 56 x 81 cm
2. JEAN ISHERWOOD Grass Trees Oil on Canvas 56 x 81 cm
3. JEAN ISHERWOOD The Beauty of the Ranges 56 x 81 cm

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