Valerie A.M. Russell Val Russell Archive. [Archive] (Unpublished)
Summary
Valerie Alice Mabel Russell (nee Williams) was born in Ayr in 1925. In 1946 Val and her husband Eric moved to Atherton on the Atherton Tableland, North Queensland, where she lived until her death on 9 September 2009. Val was a well-known local artist who sketched and painted throughout North Queensland. Her voluminous body of work included 39 sketchbooks with 639 sketches for 743 paintings. During 1975 to 1980 she produced a large number of landscapes - 37 in 1975 alone - predominantly in oils which was her favoured painting medium. Val's careful recordkeeping and the annotations she recorded in her sketchbooks make this archive an important history of the Atherton Tableland and surrounds.
Val Russell's daughter, Ellen Danaher, wrote a biography of her mother's life, "Sketchbooks: an artist's life on the Tableland", published in 2013.
Listing of this archive's contents
Sketchbooks of Val Russell by Place Name
Sketchbooks of Val Russell by Number
Additional Information
Special Collection items may be used on the Library premises by visiting the appropriate Reading Rooms during opening hours. Digital copies of selected items from this Archive will be made available through the repository as copyright or other restrictions allow.
References
Related publications held in the North Queensland Collection at James Cook University Library:
Danaher, E. (2013). Sketchbooks: An artist's life on the Tableland. Kirwan, Australia: Ellen Danaher.
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