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Elizabeth Vassilieff
Australian artist, writer and peace activist
Elizabeth Orme Vassilieff, néeSutton (27 September 1915 – 2007) was an Australian artist, writer and peace activist. She initially published under her first married name, Elizabeth Hamill, and later also wrote as Elizabeth Vassilieff-Wolf.[1]
Life
[edit]Elizabeth Sutton was born 27 September 1915 in Melbourne, the daughter of A. Leslie Sutton, a Methodist businessman.[2] While still a teenager, in 1934, she married William Hamill, an engineering student, but divorced him in the early 1940s. On 20 March 1947 Hamill married the Russian-born artist Danila Vassilieff, from whom she had bought Stonygrad, the house he had built of stone and logs, and whom she had met only on 5 February.[3] She taught modern art for the Council of Adult Education in 1948-49, and taught modern literature for the University Extension Board. Through the 1940s and 1950s she wrote on art and politics for the literary journal Meanjin, editing its poetry broadsheet and becoming associate editor in 1951.[1] Her critique of Melbourne University Magazine led the poet Vincent Buckley, whose poem 'In Time of Martydom' Vassilieff had used as an example, to complain that she was turning t
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Danila Vassilieff (1897-1958)
The wedding 1954
signed 'Vassilieff' lower right
oil on canvas
91.5 x 61.0cm (36 x 24in).
Footnotes
PROVENANCE
The collection of the artist
A G Morant, bequest of the artist, 1958
Museum of Modern Art and Design, Melbourne, 1959-1980
A G Morant, returned, 1980
Sue Gouch, 1984
Fine Australian Paintings, Sotheby's, Melbourne, 19 April 1994, lot 183 (illus.)
The Reg Grundy AC OBE and Joy Chambers-Grundy Collection, acquired in 1994
EXHIBITED
Memorial exhibition of the Paintings and sculpture of Danila Vassilieff, Museum of Modern Art and Design, Melbourne, 9 June 1959
Vassilieff: A Retrospective exhibition of Paintings, Sculptures and Watercolours, touring exhibition, Heide Park and Art Gallery, Melbourne, 11 August – 22 September, 1985; National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, cat. no. 40
LITERATURE
Felicity St John Moore, Vassilieff and His Art, Oxford, University Press, Melbourne, 1982, pp.110-1, 113 (illus.), 158
Felicity St John Moore, Vassilieff: a retrospective exhibition of Paintings, Sculptures and Watercolours, exh. cat., Heide Park and Art Gallery, Melbourne, 1985, p. 27
Zoja Bojić, Imaginary homelands: the art of Danila Vassilieff, Andrejević End
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Danila Ivanovich VASSILIEF (b.1897; d.1958)
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