Rose A. Walker

[3] Bendigo Art Gallery displayed her narrative painting, a watercolour, News from the Front, in its Victorian Gold Jubilee exhibition of 1901-1902, and its subsequent purchase from admission fees and art union was debated in a drawn-out selection process of elimination over April–June 1902,[4] in which it remained the only work by a woman and in competition against eight notables including Gustave Doré, Rupert Bunney, Julian Ashton and J. Ford Patterson.

[5] Ultimately the Gallery purchased the large Doré Joseph's Flight Into Egypt.

[6][7] News from the Front was shown as a non-competitive entry in the Australian Exhibition of Women's Work and gifted by the artist to Castlemaine Art Museum in 1940.

[8] Walker exhibited her work around Melbourne at the Victorian Artists Society, and the Athenaeum Gallery.

[2] In 2013 Walker was included in the exhibition Towards Perth: Western Australian Women Artists Before 1950 at the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery in Crawley, Australia.