Elsie Barlow

[1] In 1894, Barlow enrolled at the Gallery School of Design where she was taught by Frederick McCubbin and Lindsay Bernard Hall.

[1] Elsie and Dora both showed an early interest in art, taking classes at St Kilda Town Hall when they were kids.

[1] In 1901 she married police magistrate[4] Arthur Barlow, assistant to Sir John Madden.

[1] She opened a new studio in the Dunklings Building in Melbourne in 1919, holding an exhibition of 76 paintings and 6 pen drawings in June of that year.

[1] She is acknowledged as the first woman to paint snowscapes which she would do by leaving the paper to weather outdoors while visiting her friend May Vale at Sassafras.

Elsie Barlow (c.1916) Beaumaris . Watercolour 22.3 x 35.3 cm. Signed l.r., watercolour "E. Barlow". Castlemaine Art Museum . Gift of the artist