John Eldershaw aggregated collection of papers and pictorial material

fonds

1920-1973

Graphic Materials, Watercolours, Drawings, Textual Records

9661184

0.5 metres of textual material (3 boxes)
4 sketchbooks (58 drawings)

John Roy Eldershaw (1892–1973), artist, was a landscape painter in watercolour. He studied in Sydney under Julian Ashton and at the JS Watkins School, then worked as an architect and became a full-time artist in 1919, receiving a commission to paint Australian landscape for a year. His work was exhibited in Sydney, then he moved to Tasmania, lived in a renovated old mill in Richmond, and was vice-president of the Art Society. In 1927 he studied in London, Southampton and Paris and travelled in Europe, and on returning to Australia, was elected president of the Australian Watercolour Institute. He won many prizes and commissions, some from royalty. From 1920 he held yearly exhibitions and joint commissions until his death. He is represented in all Australian capital city and regional galleries and overseas

Reference:
University of Tasmania, Companion to Tasmanian History http://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/E/Eldershaw.htm (accessed, 11 October 2012)

COLLECTION 1:
John Eldershaw papers and pictorial material, 1920-1973

COLLECTION 2:
John Eldershaw papers, 1940-1966