Jessie Traill, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Jessie Traill

Australian painter

Date of Birth: 29-Jul-1881

Place of Birth: Brighton, Victoria, Australia

Date of Death: 15-May-1967

Profession: painter

Nationality: Australia

Zodiac Sign: Leo


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About Jessie Traill

  • Jessie Constance Alicia Traill (29 July 1881 – 15 May 1967) was an Australian printmaker.
  • Trained by Frederick McCubbin at the National Gallery of Victoria Art School, and by painter and printmaker Frank Brangwyn in London, Traill worked in England and France in the period immediately preceding World War I.
  • During the war she served in hospitals with the Voluntary Aid Detachment. Traill is best known for a series of prints created in the early 1930s depicting the construction of the Sydney Harbour Bridge.
  • Critic and art historian Sasha Grishin describes her as "one of the great Australian artists of the 20th century".

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