Bartlett, Violet "Artah"   (1869 - 1955)

Painter of wildflowers and native birds arrived from England between 1888 and the early 1900s. She signed her work 'Artah'. Her work was illustrated in the Westralian Gift Book in 1916. She was a friend of the painter and anthropologist Olive Pink and possibly her friend Muriel Southern.

Circa 1920-1930 she lived in Sydney in Rangers Road and designed cards and calendars for Sands Greeting cards.

Exhibitions: Wildflowers in Art, AGWA 1991.
Collections: Olive Pink collection, University of Tasmania.

Source: pers.com. Dorothy Erickson (10/4/2013):
Gooding, Janda. Wildflowers in Art: Perth. Perth: AGWA, 1991.
Murdoch, Walter et al. Westralian Gift Book. Perth: V.K. Jones & Co., 1916.
Spartalis, Arthur. A Survey of Western Australian Art from 1696. Perth: Arthur Spartalis Fine Art, 2008, p. 72.
Portrait Photo: Extracted from: .