Helen Elizabeth Ogilvie - Artist Info

About Helen Elizabeth Ogilvie

  • Biography

    Helen Elizabeth Ogilvie was born in 1902. She was an Australian painter and gallery director. From 1949-55 Helen Ogilvie was director of the Peter Bray Gallery in Melbourne. Aiming to show the most exciting contemporary work, she organised exhibitions of such artists as Margo Lewers , Helen Maudsley, John Brack, Sidney Nolan, Arthur Boyd and Charles Blackman. While managing the gallery, she found time to capture the slowly disappearing country homes that she so admired from childhood.

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