Bondi Beach, New South Wales, 1928, watercolour by Phyllis Shillito

P3/293

fonds

1928

Graphic Materials, Watercolours

9676396

1 watercolour - on paper - 52 x 41 cm

Phyllis Sykes Shillito (1895-1980) was a trained artist and art teacher. She moved to Brisbane in 1923 with her parents before taking up a teaching position at Sydney Technical College (later East Sydney Technical College). She was an Archibald and Wynne finalist several times, and collaborated on book illustration with Dorothy Wall, author of Blinky Bill. Shillito also produced numerous bookplates, among them one for Captain Francis de Groot in which she depicted the opening of the Sydney Harbour Bridge. Shillito exhibited her work in several exhibition and in April 1930 she showed 'a small but very creditable collection of water colours', with a few etchings and drawings, at the Beaux Arts gallery, Melbourne. One of the items listed was titled ‘Bondi’.

References:
Christopher J. Kent. 'Shillito, Phyllis Sykes (1895–1980)'. Australian Dictionary of Biography. Accessed 22 February. https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/shillito-phyllis-sykes-11683/text20879
"Miss Shillito’s water colors at The Beaux Arts", The Age, April 24, 1930, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article202266094

Previously held in the collection of Fred and Elinor Wrobel, The Wrobel Collection: The Sea and the Shore.

A view of the Bondi Beach showing the Bondi Pavilion with Hotel Bondi behind and the North Bondi Surf Club with shark bell tower to the right of the image

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

Title devised by cataloguer

Signed and dated 'Phyl Shillito 28' lower right