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FRANK, Rosaline (1864-1954)
Rosaline Frank, The Nelson Provincial Museum, Tyree Studio collection
Rosaline Margaret Frank was one of New Zealand's first professional women photographers, and the first in Nelson. At the age of 21 she went to work at the Tyree Photographic Studio, which was opened in 1878 by William Tyree. His brother Frederick worked with him for some years. Miss Frank was left to manage the studio while the brothers were away photographing. Rosaline's main interests were photography, art and music. It was Rosaline who preserved the Tyree glass plate negatives. Some of them were sold to the Alexander Turnbull Library and the rest given to the Nelson Historical Society. These are are now held at the Nelson Provincial Museum.
Rosalina McCarthy, who became Nelson's second professional woman photographer, urged local photographers and business people to donate to a memorial headstone to Rosaline Frank. Rosalina has also written a biography on her predecessor.
NAYLOR Marjorie Eleanor Froom (1909-1985)
In 1932 Marjorie Naylor had taken over and continued the Nelson School of Painting in Hugh Scott's studio. She was involved in the Nelson Suter Art Society for many years, exhibited in the gallery and had a studio in her home in Bridge Street Nelson. [The small house beside the Suburban Bus Co., currently Wills jeweller]. Miss Naylor became well known for her portraits and landscapes, with her works in the permanent collection of the Suter Art Gallery and galleries throughout New Zealand and overseas. The director of the Suter Art Gallery, at the time of her death, described Marjorie as a shy, retiring person, a meticulous individual and one liked by many people.
HARRIS Emily Cumming (1837?-1925)
Emily was born about 1837 and arrived in New Plymouth in March 1841 with her parents, a brother and two sisters. Her father, Edwin Harris, a civil engineer and surveyor, was also an artist. Her mother ran two schools in New Plymouth and Emily became an assistant teacher.
The Harris family moved to Nelson from Taranaki in March 1860, at the time of the Waitara War. Edwin was a drawing master at Nelson College and then, for nearly twenty years at the Bishop's School. With Emily he conducted a private drawing school. Emily and her sisters also ran an infant school in Nelson, in which Emily bacame a drawing teacher.
All three sisters painted and sketched, but Emily was sent to Hobart to study art. Emily Harris was, of necessity, one of the few pioneering women artists in New Zealand to try to earn a living solely by painting and teaching drawing.
Emily's diaries, held by the Taranaki Museum, detail the difficulties she endured in exhibiting. To be an artist in New Zealand's small community meant making the effort to transport work for exhibitions outside Nelson. Her great love was New Zealand flowers and plants. She also wrote several small books on New Zealand berries, ferns and flowers. Many of her paintings [63] are in the Alexander Turnbull Library in Wellington.
Other notable women artists of the region
Sarah Greenwood
Mina Arndt (1885-1926)
Lady Mabel M. Annesley (1881-1959)
Jane Evans (1946-)
Dorothy Kate Richmond (1861-1935)
Peggy Laird
Nina Davis (1914-1995)
Christine Boswijk (c.1940-)
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