Lahey, Frances Vida (1882-1968)

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Lahey, Vida (1882-1968)
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Artist; art teacher; painter; Painting; Writer; Teacher
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LAHEY, FRANCES VIDA (1882-1968), painter, was born on 26 August 1882 at Pimpama, Queensland, daughter of David Lahey, Irish-born farmer and timber-miller, and his wife, Jane Jemima, née Walmsley. Educated at Goytelea School, Southport, she learned painting from Godfrey Rivers at Brisbane Technical College, then studied at the National Gallery School, Melbourne, in 1905-06 and in 1909 under Bernard Hall and Frederick McCubbin. In 1910 she taught privately in Brisbane and consolidated an official association with the (Royal) Queensland Art Society begun in 1908.

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Vida Lahey began her art studies in Brisbane around 1903, before training at the National Gallery School, Victoria (1905-1906, 1909); she lived in London from 1915, moving to Paris after the war, where she studied at Colarossi's Academy. She exhibited regularly in Brisbane and Sydney during the 1930s and 1940s, specialising in still lives, interiors and some landscape. Lahey had a strong commitment to the arts, teaching both adult and childrens art classes, and along with Daphne Mayo was heavily involved in raising funds for, and promoting, the Queensland Art Gallery. She served on the gallery’s Art Advisory Committee (1931-37) ‘and often argued for a proper purchasing policy and a qualified full-time director - which occurred only in 1949’. She was commissioned by the Gallery to write Art in Queensland 1859-1959 which was published in 1959 and remains ‘a basic text for Queensland art history’. According to Nancy Underhill, Lahey’s main contribution was ‘to encourage excellence and public involvement in the visual arts, especially in Queensland, and to serve as a point of contact between Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne’.* Vida Lahey was appointed to The Order of the British Empire - Member (Civil), 1 January 1958, for services to art in Queensland. Her painting 'Beach Umbrellas' was featured on the 1996 $1.20 stamp for Australia Day.

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A traditional painter specializing in still life and landscape subjects. She was a great contributor to the art scene in Queensland and was very involved with the Queensland Art Gallery.

painter, was born in Pimpama, Queensland, where her family had timber holdings. Her early art studies were under Godfrey Rivers at the Central Technical College, Brisbane, but her main training was at the National Gallery School, Victoria, where she was enrolled in 1905-6 and 1909 under Bernard Hall and Frederick McCubbin. While in Melbourne she also studied watercolour painting with Walter Withers. In 1915 she went to London and, at the end of the war, to Paris, where she studied at ...

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  • fl. 1903-1952

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  1. Songs of Colour: The Art of Vida Lahey
    MacAulay, Bettina
    [1989]
    Published: Queensland Art Gallery
  2. Lahey, Frances Vida (1882-1968), painterHeritage: The National Women's Art Book Kerr, Joan 385 : Lahey, Frances Vida (1882-1968), painter
    Underhill, Nancy D.H.
    [1995]
    Published: Craftsman House
  3. Faith, Hope and Charity Australian Women and Imperial Honours: 1901-1989
    Australian Women's Archives Project
    [2003]
    Published: Australian Women's Archives Project
    Series: http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/honours/honours.html
  4. Lahey, Frances Vida (1882-1968)Australian Dictionary of Biography Online : Lahey, Frances Vida (1882-1968)
    Maynard, Margaret
    [2006]
    Published: Australian National University
    Series: http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A090647b.htm
  5. State Library of Queensland, John Oxley Library: Vida Lahey, letters and scrapbook (c. 1919 - 1920)
    Letters written from London and notes on travel in Europe, 1919-20; scrapbook mainly devoted to exhibitions with sketches and reproductions.
  6. National Library of Australia Oral History Collection: [Conversation with Vida Lahey] [sound recording] / [interviewer : Hazel de Berg] (26 November 1965)
    Lahey speaks of her childhood and schooling in Queensland; changes that occurred in her life due to World War I; travelling overseas in 1915; her interest in landscape painting; her method of work when painting from nature.
    ORAL DeB 152

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  1. Songs of colour : the art of Vida Lahey / Bettina MacAula
    MacAulay, Bettina
    [ Book : 1989 ]
    At 43 libraries
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  2. Art in Queensland 1859-1959 / Vida Lahey
    Lahey, Vida, 1882-1968
    [ Book : 1959 ]
    At 38 libraries
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 15.803)

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  3. 4494 Vida Lahey Painting
    Lahey, Frances Vida, 1882-1968
    [ Art work : 1931 ]
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    At State Library of QLD
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  4. Adventure in watercolour : an artist's story / written and illustrated by Kenneth Macqueen ; with a letter from J.V. Duhig, biographical summary by Vida Lahey, also an explanation of technique by the artist himself
    Macqueen, Kenneth, 1897-1960
    [ Book : 1948 ]
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  5. Supplement to Songs of colour : the art of Vida Lahey / Bettina MacAulay
    MacAulay, Bettina
    [ Book : 1989 ]
    At 4 libraries
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  6. Vida Lahey : colour and modernism
    Lahey, Vida, 1882-1968
    [ Book : 2010 ]
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  7. OM67-30 Vida Lahey Papers and [Works of Art]
    Lahey, Vida, 1882-1968
    [ Published : 1909-1963 ]
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    At State Library of QLD
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    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 7.724)

  8. Vida Lahey interviewed by Hazel de Berg in the Hazel de Berg collection
    Lahey, Vida, 1882-1968
    [ Sound : 1965 ]
    At National Library
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 6.637)

    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 6.637)

  9. Paintings from seashore and garden by Miss Vida Lahey (Brisbane) : miniatures by Mrs. Kilburn (London): Everyman's Lending Library, 332 Collins Street, Melbourne, Oct. 24th - Nov. 4th, 1933
    Lahey, Vida, 1882-1968
    [ Book : 1933 ]
    At State Library of VIC
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 6.587)

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  10. An exhibition of Queensland flower studies in watercolours, closing on Monday, September 14th, 1936
    Lahey, Vida, 1882-1968
    [ Book : 1936 ]
    At State Library of VIC
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 6.552)

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  2. The Australian War Museum, Women Artists and the National Memory of the First World War
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    When the Soldiers Return: November 2007 Conference Proceedings
    [ Article : 2009 ]
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  3. The Australian War Museum, women artists and the national memory of the First World War
    Speck, Catherine Margaret; School of History and Politics; When the Soldiers Return (2007 : Brisbane, Queensland)
    [ Article : 2010 ]
    Languages: en
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  4. Emil Theodor Kocher: an innovator surgeon/Theodor Kocher: un cirujano innovador
    Franco, Maria Liliana; Acosta, Natalia; Chuaire, Lilian
    Colombia Medica
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  1. Vida Lahey paintings
    The Courier-Mail (Brisbane, Qld. : 1933 - 1954) Saturday 25 April 1953 p 5 Article
    ... Vida Lahey paintings THREE paintings by Queensland-born artist Vida Frances Lahey will hang on The Courier-Mail Art Panel, in The Courier-Mail Courier- Mail vestibule, from now until May 8. They are "The Green Vase," on loan from Dr. Norman Behan, "The Jacarandas," on loan from Mr. ... 58 words
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  2. ART EXHIBITION.
    The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933) Saturday 25 May 1929 p 27 Article
    ... ART EXHIBITION. Visitors to the exhibition of paintings ings by Vida Lahey, on view at the ... Harvey, Mesdames I. Lahey, J. Bar- nard, Leonard Turner, David Cohen, R. S. Dods. Daisy Bird, ... Frances Watson, Nell Phelan, and Ivy Chamberlain, Messrs. J. J. Kingsbury, E. A. Rutherford, Dr. ... 102 words
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  3. ART AND NATURE.
    The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933) Friday 4 July 1930 p 22 Article
    ... Beven, I. Williamson, Vida Lahey, M. Bulcock, Foote, Frances Watson, A. Jones, Jeanettie Sheldon, ... 156 words
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