Thea Proctor
| Thea Proctor | |
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Portrait of Proctor, painted by George Washington Lambert, 1903, Art Gallery of New South Wales
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| Born |
Alethea Mary Proctor 2 October 1879 Armidale, New South Wales, Australia |
| Died | 29 July 1966 (aged 86) Potts Point, New South Wales, Australia |
| Nationality | Australian |
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| Known for | Painting |
Alethea Mary Proctor (2 October 1879 – 29 July 1966) was an Australian artist.
Proctor was born in Armidale, New South Wales, to Katherine Louise Proctor and William Consett Proctor who was a solicitor and a politician. When her parents separated in 1892, she and her mother moved to Bowral to stay with her grandmother who encouraged her interest in painting.
She studied at Sydney Art School from 1896 under Julian Ashton, then at the St John's Wood School of Art in London in 1903. Ashton and Proctor became lifelong friends and she modelled for him many times. Apart from two years spent in Sydney 1912–14 she worked in London 1903–21, associating with fellow Australian expatriates Charles Conder, Arthur Streeton and Tom Roberts and producing pencil drawings and decorative watercolours and fans influenced by Conder and Japanese woodblock prints. She exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts, and New English Art Club, later producing lithographs which were exhibited at the Senefelder Club and the London Goupil Gallery for the International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers.
After returning to Sydney, she exhibited with Margaret Preston in 1925 then with George Lambert founded the Contemporary Group who exhibited in Adrian Feint's Grosvenor Gallery in George Street from 1926–28 with Grace Cossington Smith, Marion Hall Best, Elioth Gruner, Margaret Preston, Roland Wakelin and Roy de Maistre.
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