Rupert Charles Wulsten Bunny was an Australian painter. Born and raised in Melbourne, Victoria, he achieved success and critical acclaim as an expatriate in fin-de-siècle Paris. He gained an honourabl
Self-portrait, 1895
The Roses of Saint Dorothea (circa 1892)
Saint Veronica (circa 1902)
The Australian Art Association, known as 'The Three A's' or 'AArtA', was a national body founded in Melbourne, Victoria, in 1912 by Edward Officer John Mather, Frederick McCubbin, Max Meldrum and Walt
Rupert Bunny
…Bunny joined a group of professional painters who broke from the Victorian Artists' Society over its inclusion of amateurs as members to create the Australian Art Association. Other founders included Louis McCubbin (elected as President in 1912, Norman Macgeorge (second president), James Ranalph Jackson, Leslie Wilkie, William…
Australian Art Association, catalogue of exhibition, Athenaeum, Collins Street, Oct. 1920, image courtesy State Library of Victoria
George W Lambert (1910) Chesham Street, shown in the 1913 exhibition. National Gallery of Australia
W. B. McInnes (1922) Malcolm and Gyp. Oil on canvas 153.4 × 122.8 cm. National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne. Felton Bequest, 1922
Charles Wheeler (1923) The Amber Necklace. Oil on canvas 167 x 120 cm. Exhibited: 1923 annual AArtA exhibition