Jessamine Buxton

Jessamine Victoria Alexandrine Buxton (1895–1966) was a South Australian artist and sculptor.

Jessamine Buxton (left) and her sculpture student Jean Shephard, c.1933

Career

Buxton was educated at Adelaide High School and won a scholarship to study at the South Australian Royal Society of Arts.[1] She later won a travelling scholarship but was not permitted to take it up by her father. She stayed in South Australia all her life and painted and exhibited regularly in Adelaide.[2]

In 1915, Buxton designed a patriotic Christmas card for soldiers, wishing them luck at the Front and a safe return home.[3]

After years of study, Buxton began to teach at the South Australian School of Arts and Crafts. She had a major impact as an art educator and influenced South Australian sculptor and artist John Stuart Downie.[4] Downie was also taught by Marie Tuck, another influential South Australian women artist and teacher of the same era.

Awards

Offered the Society of Arts prize, a travelling scholarship.

1936 First Prize in the Autumn Exhibition for Still Life No 11 Zinnias.[5]

Society of Arts prize for modelling.[6]

Media

Buxton used included pastels, watercolours, sculpture, silverpoint drawing, miniature painting, china painting and needlework.[7] During the war, Dr Henry Newland assigned Buxton the task of sketching human organs after they were removed. There was such a shortage of photographers then.

References
  1. "Woman Artist of Achievement". Mail (Adelaide, SA : 1912 - 1954). 8 August 1936. p. 2. Retrieved 12 March 2020.
  2. Hylton, Jane (15 April – 17 July 1994). "South Australian Women Artists paintings from the 1890s to the 1940s". Art Gallery Board of South Australia: 30.
  3. "PERSONAL". Advertiser (Adelaide, SA : 1889 - 1931). 11 November 1915. p. 6. Retrieved 12 March 2020.
  4. "Fairview Art Collection Still Life". Fairview Historic Home.
  5. "Opening of Autumn Art Exhibition". Adelaide Advertiser. 3 April 1936. p. 19.
  6. "News". News (Adelaide, SA: 1923 - 1954), Thursday 4 Aug 1927 p 8. 4 August 1927. p. 8.
  7. Ambrus, Caroline (1984). The Ladies' Picture Show Sources on a century of Australian women artists. Sydney, NSW: Hale & Iremonger. p. 71. ISBN 0-86806-160-3.

Further reading
  • Kalon, Anne (2009), Royal South Australian Society of Arts Inc., p. 214
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