Historical information

Artist Lindsay Edward and wife Jan built a house designed by Alistair Knox at 151 Old Eltham Road, Lower Plenty. See article on home designed by Alistair Knox for Lindsay Edward, teacher, at 151 Old Eltham Road, Lower Plenty. The home was originally featured on the cover of the January 1953 issue of Home Beautiful magazine and was revisited in the March 1969 issue. See registration record No. 01649.

Lindsay Edward Biography:
1919: 26 August Lindsay Maurice Edward was born in Melbourne.
1937: 4 – 9 May Exhibition - Heidelberg art exhibition (SLV collection)
1939: Art student at the National Gallery of Victoria
1940: 7-14 October Exhibition Heidelberg art exhibition. (SLV collection)
1941: November - Exhibition Heidelberg Art Exhibition
1942: Lindsay was an art student living at this 14 Park Cres. Fairfield. Occupation Art student. He most likely painted this painting around this time.
c.1942 – 1944: Enlistment for military service in World War 2 in Casino, NSW.
1944: Rank of Sergeant.
1944: Exhibition Seddon Galleries (Melbourne)
1945: Exhibition Seddon Galleries
1946: Exhibition Exhibition of Past Students of the National Gallery of Victoria
1947: Submitted “Self- portrait in the Archibald Prize, Art Gallery of NSW
1948: Lived in London for a year and married a fellow artist ? Knox.
1949: Returned from London
1949: Electoral Roll Residence– 16 Mount Street, Ivanhoe
1950: October Exhibition Stanley Coe Galleries, 435 Bourke Street, Melbourne
1951: 19 Nov. - 9 Dec. Exhibition An exhibition of present day art of Victoria Victorian 1951 Commemoration Committee in conjunction with the Victorian Artists' Society, 1951: (SLV Collection)
1953: October Exhibition Melbourne Contemporary Artists Exhibiton
1954: Exhibition Melbourne Contemporary Artists Exhibition
1958: Victorian artist and educator Lindsay Edward won the £500 prize for the wall decoration of the Queensland Library - . Edward was born in 1919 and had studied at the National Gallery of Victoria. In 1958 he was head of the painting section of the Royal Melbourne Technical College (now RMIT) and had only recently begun experimenting with mosaic. The Centennial mosaic covers a wall 68 feet (20.72 metres) in length and 14 feet (4.26 metres) high. In a Melbourne Age article in July 1958 Edward described the mural as ‘not a literal subject’ rather as ‘a basic formation of organic forms indicating growth and development’.
1960: Exhibition Eltham Art Show (SLV collection)
1963: Exhibition October 28-November 17 - Argus Gallery, 290 Latrobe Street, Melbourne and at Hassall's Roadside Gallery, Eltham and at Gallery A and at Russell Davis Art Gallery. (SLV Collection)
1963, 1967, 1977 and 1980: Electoral Rolls – Residence Old Eltham Road, Lower Plenty. Occupation Teacher
1966: Exhibition Art Show -Austin Hospital Appeal (Heidelberg) (SLV collection)
1970s: Head of Art Department RMIT where he established a fine art collection.
1982: Exhibition Bolitho Gallery Canberra http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article116467780
1988: 28 July – Exhibition Recent Paintings Darwin Performing Arts Centre (SLV Collection)
1993: Exhibition Solander Gallery, Canberra
2007: January Died and is buried in Eltham Cemetery
2007: Obituary in Age Jun 2, 2007 - LINDSAY Edward's retirement as head of the fine art department at RMIT in August 1979 signalled the end of an important chapter in the art


Sources:
ART CONTEST. (1939, March 2). The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), p. 8. Retrieved October 16, 2016, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12103185
ART EXHIBITION AT HEIDELBERG (1941, November 25). The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), p. 6. Retrieved October 16, 2016, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article8218682
ART EXHIBITIONS (1945, October 3). The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), p. 7. Retrieved October 16, 2016, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article205639922
EX-GALLERY STUDENTS' SHOW (1946, October 15). The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), p. 3. Retrieved October 16, 2016, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article22386440
https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/prizes/archibald/1947/
Art World Busy (1949, February 26). The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), p. 12. Retrieved October 16, 2016, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article22706197
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article22781141

ART NOTES (1953, October 13). The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), p. 2. Retrieved October 16, 2016, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article206462733
Design, color in art show (1954, October 5). The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), p. 9. Retrieved October 16, 2016, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article23453359
https://artcollection.its.rmit.edu.au/?p=rmit-gallery-about
Cinema (1993, October 7). The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926 - 1995), p. 7 (Good Times). Retrieved October 16, 2016, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article127509819
Queensland Centenary Artwork (includes image)
http://queenswharf.org/places/former-queensland-state-library-wall-decoration-and-sculpture/
Eltham Cemetery
http://www.elthamcemetery.com/index.php/search

Physical description

oil on paper board
31.5 x 37.5 cm
signed "Edward" lower right

Inscriptions & markings

Inscribed on back
"The Malt House
Lindsay Edward
15 Park Cres
Fairfield"