painting, Storm Tossed, Twisted and Torn by Maude Glover Fleay, 1934

Historical information

Maud Glover-Fleay b. 1869
A painter who studied under Frederick McCubbin, Glover-Fleay was regarded for her natural history subject matter. She was also a writer and music teacher, and in the 1930s she established a reputation for painting Australian marsupials. Glover-Fleay's work is included in the Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Ballarat, Victoria

Significance

significant as a work of art by a modernist-era female artist, locally significant to the Central Highlands Region of Victoria as a representation of local landscape and/or culture

Physical description

painting of a large tree

Inscriptions & markings

Signed: Glover-Fleay
34 (lower right)
Verso: Storm Tossed TWISTED AND TORN

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