Australian Art Association

Australian Art Association, catalogue of exhibition, Athenaeum, Collins Street, Oct. 1920, image courtesy State Library of Victoria

The Australian Art Association was founded in Melbourne, Victoria, in 1912 by Edward Officer (inaugural president) ^[1] John Mather, Frederick McCubbin, Max Meldrum and Walter Withers. ^{[2] [3]}

Members included Norman Macgeorge (second president), Rupert Bunny, William Dunn Knox, James Ranalph Jackson, and Leslie Wilkie.

William Dunn Knox's first exhibition was in 1918 at the Australian Art Association, Melbourne. He was elected to the Australian Art Association in 1919 and was later on the council, and serving as its Treasurer in 1924 with Mrs. George Bell, Louis McCubbin, Norman Macgeorge, Alexander Colquhoun, Napier Waller, Charles Wheeler, Harry (Henry Broomilow) Harrison, and Charles Web Gilbert, under President W. B. McInnes, with Leslie Wilkie secretary.

Bibliography

• Joyce McGrath, The Australian Art Association, 1912-1933 (B. Soc. Sci. special study, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, 1974)

References

1. Peers, Juliet. "Officer, Edward Cairns (1871–1921)". Australian Dictionary of Biography . National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. ISBN   978-0-522-84459-7. ISSN   1833-7538. OCLC   70677943 . Retrieved 22 July 2012.
2. Judy Blyth, 'Mather, John (1848? - 1916)', Australian Dictionary of Biography , Volume 10, MUP, 1986, pp 438-439. Retrieved 2012-07-22
3. McCulloch, Alan; McCulloch, Susan; McCulloch Childs, Emily (2006). The new McCulloch's encyclopedia of Australian art (Fourth ed.). Fitzroy BC, Vic. ISBN   0-522-85317-X. OCLC   80568976.