Elma Roach
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Elma May Victoria Roach, was an Australian modernist painter and woodworker.
Elma Roach in 1936
Elma Roach (c.1935) Still Life with Pomegranates. Castlemaine Art Museum
Elma Roach (c.1941) Autumn. Art Gallery of New South Wales
Examples of tableware created by Elma Roach. Decorated wooden egg cups, napkin rings, and a letter opener.
The National Gallery of Victoria Art School, associated with the National Gallery of Victoria, was a private fine arts college founded in 1867 and was Australia's leading art school of 50 years.
Elma Roach
…was seven years old. Roach was living with her family at 'Sayes', Gordon Street Toorak when, from age sixteen, she studied at the Drawing School of the National Gallery of Victoria Art School from 1913 to 1916 under the guidance of Frederick McCubbin and William Beckwith McInnes. Later, she joined its School of Painting from the second term…
National Gallery of Victoria Art School students in 1896: Back: Amy Mann, Agnes Kirkwood, Leon Pole, George Coates, Albert Ends, Hugh Ramsay Middle: James S. MacDonald, Dora Meeson, Jo Sweatman, Ada Coutie, Isabel Hunter Front: George Pontin, Portia Geach
Melbourne National Gallery School life class in 1935 (L-R) Phyl Waterhouse, Alannah Coleman, Charles Bush, Jean Mcinnes and Miss Eastwood (posed not in front of their own canvases). On the walls; works by Hugh Ramsay, John Longstaff, Max Meldrum, James Quinn, Isaac Cohen and Charles Wheeler. Taken for Table Talk magazine
A group of students at the National Gallery of Victoria Art School with animal costumes c. 1930