Ruby Winckler artworks

PXD 1598

fonds

approximately 1907-1918

Graphic Materials, Drawings, Paintings

9665411

4 drawings - ink, gouache, watercolour
1 painting - oil

Ruby Winckler (1886-1974) was a Sydney illustrator and painter. She was the daughter of Captain Augustus Robinson Winckler (c.1845-1933) and Jessie Louisa née Green (d1946) and one of the first women who trained at the Julian Ashton School to work as a children’s book illustrator. In the 1900s and 1910s her work also appeared in some of the annual exhibitions of the NSW Society of Artists and the New South Wales Society of Women Painters and was often singled out in reviews.

Reference:
Library correspondence file
Lennon, J.E. 2022. 'Glamour', Advance Australiana: A catalogue from Ancanthe

The vendor purchased these works separately at various auctions over the years.

Box 1
1. [Woman stretching and yawning, approximately 1910-1918]
Ink and gouache on paper, 17 x 14 cm, mounted on cardboard.

2. [The vanity mirror, approximately 1907-1918]
Ink drawing, in mount 51 x 41 cm, visible image 31 x 18 cm
Signed "Ruby Winckler" lower right corner, with rough pencil and ink sketches on verso

3. [Cinderella dresses her Stepsisters for the Ball, approximately 1908-1918]
Watercolour, 40 x 26 cm
Signed "Ruby Winckler" lower right corner

4. The Abbott has Dreams, 1908
Oil painting on canvas pasted down on cardboard, 41 x 29 cm.
Signed "Ruby Winkler 1908" lower right corner, with pencil inscriptions on verso

Box 2
5. [Woman in red], 1908
Gouache and pencil on brown paper, 21 x 13 cm.
Signed "Ruby Winkler 08" lower left

In copyright:
Copyright holder:: Ruby Winckler
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales and Courtesy Ruby Winckler

Most of the works are signed by the artist

Some dates and title based on information supplied in vendor catalogue.