Alison Rehfisch

Alison Baily Rehfisch (23 January 1900 – 12 March 1975) was an Australian painter born in Sydney.

Her mother, who was a proficient sculptor, painter and musician, encouraged her interest in painting and drawing.

She began exhibiting at the Blaxland Gallery in 1929 and it was around this time that she and her husband split up and she moved into a studio apartment with Dorrit Black, Rah Fizelle, Thea Proctor and Adelaide Perry.

They bought a house "Hillgrove" in Pymble which she decorated extensively, but spent little time on more mundane tasks.

[2] After George died of cancer in 1974, she was inconsolable and less than a year later, with deteriorating eyesight and suffering depression, committed suicide by swallowing poison.