Lesbia Thorpe (in private life Lee Baldwin)[1] (1919–2009)[2] was an Australian artist, possibly best known for her printmaking.
In 1953 she studied printmaking with Gertrude Hermes at the Central School of Art and Design in London.
[3] In the Summer Olympics of 1956 held in Melbourne, Thorpe exhibited in the Olympic Fine Arts Exhibition under the Drawings and Prints category with the lino-cut Emu Chicks[7] which was bought by the Art Gallery of Western Australia[8] in the same year.
In a long life of making art, Thorpe also illustrated books[3] ("People of the Dreamtime",[9] "The Cruise of the Roebuck"), and made theatre sets[3] and was still holding exhibitions in 1994.
[1] She was a finalist in the 1938 Archibald Prize, with two works: Mrs Havelock Southwick and Miss Rose Broit.