Lina Bryans (1909-2000)

Biography

1909 Born in Hamburg, Germany, in 1909.
1910 Bryans arrived in Australia as an infant and was raised in Victoria, England and France.
1936 Bryans moved to South Yarra, Victoria and painted her first works in 1937.
1940s lived in a converted hotel at Darebin which developed into an informal artists colony. William Frater and Ian fair-weather has studios there.
1948 studied in Melbourne under George Bell.
1951 studied with William Frater and Mary Cockburn (1951).
1953 studied in Paris at L’Ecole Libre in La Grand Chaumiere.
Member of the Independent Group and the Melbourne Society of Women Painters and Sculptors.

Exhibitions

Has exhibited mainly in group and important survey shows, including:
1938 The Herald exhibition of Outstanding Pictures of 1937
1941 Art of Australia 1788-1941, shown at MOMA, New York
1948 First solo exhibition
1966 Georges Gallery
1982 Retrospective, National Gallery of Victoria
1993 A Century of Australian Women Artists 1840s-1940s, Deutscher Fine Art, Melbourne

Awards

1966 Crouch Prize, Ballarat (for Embedded Rock, 1964 (Ballarat Fine Art Gallery))
1976 Caloundra Portrait Prize
1976 Charleville Open Art Award
1977 Labrador Open Art Award
1977 Murgon Open Art Award
1979, 82 Rockhampton
1989 Australia Council Emeritus Award

Collections

National Gallery of Australia
Queensland Art Gallery
National Gallery of Victoria
Art Gallery of Western Australia
Art Gallery of South Australia
Art Gallery of New South Wales
Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery
Other regional galleries, local council collections in Australia and corporate collections in Australia and overseas.