May Grigg
Self portrait ca. 1936
Born
Mabel (May) Grigg

1885 (1885)
Hindmarsh, Australia
Died1969 (aged 83–84)
Adelaide, Australia
NationalityAustralian
Known forPainting

Mabel "May" Grigg (1885–1969),[1] was an Australian painter. She won the Alexander Melrose Prize for portraiture in 1921 and 1922.[2]

Biography

Grigg was born in 1885 in Hindmarsh, South Australia, the third of five daughters of Rachel Grigg, née Worthley, and Thomas Grigg,[2] a noted violinist, conductor and music teacher. May studied at the South Australian School of Design in Adelaide. Her teachers included Harry Gill and Hans Heysen.[2]

Grigg was a council member at the Royal South Australian Society of Arts.[2] Grigg had a career as a teacher. She was senior art mistress at Ballarat Technical Art School[3] and the South Australian School of Arts and Crafts.[4]

Grigg died in 1969[5] in Adelaide.[2]

Her sister Etta Grigg was an accomplished viola player.

References

  1. ↑ "May Grigg b. 1885". Design & Art Australia Online. Retrieved 4 July 2018.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 "May Grigg self portrait". State Library of South Australia. Retrieved 4 July 2018.
  3. ↑ "Artist Leaving". The News. Vol. XV, no. 2, 225. South Australia. 3 September 1930. p. 4. Retrieved 7 February 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
  4. ↑ "S.A. artist leaving for U.K." The News. Vol. 56, no. 8, 580. South Australia. 6 February 1951. p. 14. Retrieved 7 February 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
  5. ↑ "May Grigg". Australian Prints + Printmaking. Retrieved 4 July 2018.
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