May Gilbert
May Gilbert (1901 - 1977) was a New Zealand printmaker and artist, working in watercolours, oils and acrylics.[1][2]
Biography
Gilbert attended Elam School of Fine Arts from 1920, and returned in the mid-1930s to study there again. She also studied at private art school Le Foyer. She was a member of the Auckland Society of Arts and exhibited a set of linocuts there in 1932, and also exhibited with the New Zealand Society of Arts, the Nelson Suter Art Society, the Canterbury Society of Arts and was a member of the Rutland Group in Auckland.
Gilbert was an art teacher in the 1930s and 1940s, teaching at St. Cuthbert's College and Diocesan School for Girls.
References
- ^ Vangioni, Peter (2023). Ink on Paper: Aotearoa New Zealand Printmakers of the Modern Era. Christchurch, New Zealand: Christchurch Art Gallery. p. 58. ISBN 9781877375774.
- ^ "May Gilbert". Australian and New Zealand Art Sales Digest.
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