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Nornie Gude

Eleanor Constance "Nornie" Gude (Dec 8 1915 – Jan 24 2002) was an Australian artist.

Nornie Gude
Born
Eleanor Constance Gude

December 8, 1915
Ballarat, Victoria, Australia
DiedJanuary 24, 2002 (aged 86)
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
EducationNational Gallery School
Known forPainting
SpouseL. Scott Pendlebury

Early life edit

Gude was born in 1915 in Ballarat, Victoria to Stella Rehfisch and Walter Gude, musician and violin teacher, and conductor of the St Patrick's Cathedral orchestra and choir in Ballarat.[1] Her parents met when Stella was 27 and the 42-year old never-married Walter was teaching her the violin.[1] Nornie and her sister Gilda were both raised in Ballarat before moving to Melbourne on the eve of World War II.[1]

She was accepted into the Ballarat Technical Art School at 15 because of her advanced skill in painting, and trained there from 1931 to 1936.[2] She won the esteemed MacRobertson Scholarship in art worth £100 a year.[3] She later went on to the National Gallery School from 1936 to 1939, studying with Sidney Nolan and Charles Bush, and became the first woman to win the National Gallery Students Travelling Scholarship.[3]

Career edit

 
Nornie and her husband Laurence on their wedding day, Australasian, 6 March 1943

Gude won many awards for her painting both while at school and throughout her career.[3] In 1958 she went on a study tour through England and Europe.[3] Her works were described by Harold Herbert as "slick and clever."[4] She exhibited with the Victorian Artists Society[5] and the Australian Water Color Institute in Sydney.[6] In 1988 she was a finalist for the 'Sail and Bicentenary award' at the ACTA Bicentenary Maritime Art Awards Exhibition with her work "'The Bounty' on Sydney Harbour."[7]

Nornie met her husband, fellow painter Laurence Scott Pendlebury, while studying together at the Gallery School. They had two children, Anne and Andrew, both of whom followed artistic pursuits.[8] The family lived in Caulfield, Nornie painting in her studio there.[9]

She once said about art "You spend your first 20 years learning the technique and the next 20 years losing it."[3] Her work is represented in collections at the National Gallery of Victoria, Parliament House, and the Art Gallery of Western Australia, as well as regional collections in Ballarat, Geelong, Castlemaine Art Museum, and Bendigo.[8]

Gude died peacefully at home with her two children in Hawthorn on January 24, 2002.[10]

Awards edit

 
Visiting artist to paint in Brisbane, Courier-Mail, 23 May 1942
  • 1941 - National Gallery School Landscape Prize
  • 1948 - F. E. Richardson Prize (Geelong Art Gallery)[11]
  • 1951 - F. E. Richardson Prize[12]
  • 1953 - Perth Art Gallery Prize[13]
  • 1958 - Voss Smith Prize
  • 1970 - Pring Prize
  • 1988 - Doug Moran Naval Prize
  • 1990 - Doug Moran National Portrait Prize

Exhibitions edit

  • 1954 - Artists for Peace exhibition, Tye's Gallery[14]
  • 1988 - 'Evespan' - Some Australian Women Artists 1920-1988, Albury Regional Art Centre[15]

References edit

  1. ^ a b c "Photograph - Stella Rehfisch on her Wedding Day, Ballarat, 19 Mar 1913". Museums Victoria Collections. Retrieved 26 October 2020.
  2. ^ "Gouache - 'Everybody's Favourite' 1935, by Nornie Gude - Victorian Collections". 136.154.202.135. Retrieved 26 October 2020.
  3. ^ a b c d e Limmer, Scott (17 July 2013). "Nornie GUDE". Federation University Australia. Retrieved 26 October 2020.
  4. ^ "GOOD WORK IN TWO ART SHOWS". Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957). 4 November 1941. p. 3. Retrieved 26 October 2020.
  5. ^ "V.A.S. SPRING SHOW". Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954). 29 September 1942. p. 6. Retrieved 28 October 2020.
  6. ^ "ART NOTES". Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954). 21 March 1950. p. 2. Retrieved 28 October 2020.
  7. ^ ACTA Bicentenary Maritime Art Awards Exhibition catalogue, 1988. Nornie Gude: Art & Artist files, held in the National Gallery of Australia Research Library & Archive Collection.
  8. ^ a b "Trove". trove.nla.gov.au. Retrieved 26 October 2020.
  9. ^ "Woman Artists". Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954). 12 May 1953. p. 5. Retrieved 26 October 2020.
  10. ^ "Eleanor Pendlebury - Obituary". www.legacy.com. Retrieved 26 October 2020.
  11. ^ "GEELONG ART AWARDS". Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957). 2 October 1948. p. 1. Retrieved 28 October 2020.
  12. ^ "CHARLES BUSH WINS PRIZE". Herald (Melbourne, Vic. : 1861 - 1954). 4 October 1951. p. 2. Retrieved 28 October 2020.
  13. ^ "Art Prizes to Victorians". Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954). 13 July 1953. p. 3. Retrieved 28 October 2020.
  14. ^ Artists for Peace exhibition catalogue, 1954. Nornie Gude: Art & Artist files, held in the National Gallery of Australia Research Library & Archive Collection.
  15. ^ Evespan exhibition catalogue, 1988. Nornie Gude: Art & Artist files, held in the National Gallery of Australia Research Library & Archive Collection.

External links edit

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