Collection Item
Elizabeth Riddell with black cat 1946
Artist and filmmaker Dahl Collings and her husband, Geoffrey, were family friends and professional colleagues of poet and journalist Elizabeth Riddell. As a journalist, Riddell won a number of awards, including twice winning a Walkley Award. Riddell also won the Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry in 1992 and the Patrick White Award in 1995.
This portrait of Riddell, with her cat Celestina, was painted on the balcony of the house she and her husband rented at Parsley Bay, Vaucluse. A Port Jackson pilot boat can be seen in the middle distance, on the right.
Collection Item Type:
Oil on board
Call Number:
ML 1138
Published date:
1946
On display:
Exhibition Galleries
Copyright Information:
Copyright status: In copyright - Life of creator plus 70 years
Please acknowledge: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales and Courtesy copyright owner
Display Location:
Exhibition Galleries
Historical Dates
Started
Tuesday, 1 January 1946
Finished
Tuesday, 31 December 1946
Started
Tuesday, 1 January 1946
Finished
Tuesday, 31 December 1946