I Buried My Dolls in the Garden: The Life and Works of Elizabeth Blair Barber

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Barber, Elizabeth Blair, 1909-2001.  |  Women painters — Western Australia — Biography.  |  Painters — Western Australia — Biography.  |  Painting, Modern — 20th century — Western Australia.

Barber, Elizabeth Blair, 1909-2001 Born in Perth in 1909, Elizabeth Barber studied in Perth under Van Raalte, in Melbourne under Lindsay Bernard Hall, and in London. Founder of the Cremorne Art Gallery in Perth, she held her first one-woman show in Perth in 1939. Her work is sometimes signed ‘Betty Bunning’. She has also exhibited in London. She died in 2001.

Elizabeth Blair, youngest daughter of Major-General and Mrs. G. W. Barber, of South Yarra, and Charles Robert, second son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Bunning, of Cottesloe. . . .