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Enid Cambridge
Enid Helen Gray Cambridge (10 July 1903 – 1 December 1976) was an Australian artist. Biography Cambridge was born in 1903 in Mosman, New South Wales to Henry Gray Cambridge and Olga Stella Hayes Harnett. The middle of four siblings, she had an older brother Geoffrey and older sister Hilarie, and two younger brothers, Richard and Milton. She described the excitement of receiving a giant box of paints for Christmas when she was young. She studied at the Sydney Art School under Julian Ashton like fellow artist Thea Proctor before her, and alongside fellow students Dorrit Black and Grace Crowley. In 1930 she exhibited at Macquarie Galleries alongside Black and Crowley, as well as Grace Cossington-Smith. Her canvas "George-street North" was described in the ''Sydney Mail'' as "the best" in an exhibition with her contemporary friends. While she taught for over thirty years as Senior Art Mistress at the Sydney Church of England Girls' Grammar School in Darlinghurst, this did not ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mosman
Mosman is a suburb on the Lower North Shore region of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Mosman is located 8 kilometres north-east of the Sydney central business district and is the administrative centre for the local government area of the Municipality of Mosman. Localities In February 1997, a notice was published in the Government Gazette by Mosman Council advising that they had assigned ''Mosman'' as the only suburb in the Mosman Local Government Area. However, Mosman Council decided that residents should continue to be allowed to use the following traditional locality names if they wished: * Balmoral * Beauty Point * Clifton Gardens * Georges Heights * Spit Junction * The Spit History Mosman is named after Archibald Mosman (1799–1863) and his twin brother George, who moved onto a land grant in the area in 1831. They were involved in shipping, and founded a whaling station on a bay in the harbour, which became known as Mosman's Bay. George s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
