Ada May Plante: Difference between revisions

{{Infobox artist

| birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1875|10|4}}

| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1950|7|3|1875|5|4}}

| nationality = New Zealand

| known_for = [[Painting]]

| movement = [[Post-impressionism]]

'''Ada May Plante''' (4 October 1875 – 3 July 1950) was a [[New Zealand]]-born [[Post-Impressionism|post-impressionist]] artist who was one of the founding exhibitors in the [[Post-Impressionist Melbourne Contemporary Group]]. She was a member of the [[Melbourne Society of Women Painters and Sculptors]].<ref name=":0" />

Ada May Plante was born on 4 October 1875 in [[Temuka]], New Zealand. Her parents had immigrated from [[England]] and her father, Thomas Crowther Plante, worked as a merchant. Her mother was Isabella Plante, née Guthrie. The family moved to [[Australia]] in 1888, settling in [[East Melbourne]] where Plante was enrolled at the [[Presbyterian Ladies' College, Melbourne|Presbyterian Ladies' College]] in 1891. She received formal training at the [[National Gallery of Victoria Art School|National Gallery School]] from [[Lindsay Bernard Hall]] and [[Frederick McCubbin]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|url=http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/plante-ada-may-8062|title=Australian Dictionary of Biography|last=Phipps|first=Jennifer|publisher=National Centre of Biography, Australian National University|location=Canberra}}</ref>

In 1902 she moved to [[Paris]] to study at [[Académie Julian]], sharing a studio with Australian artist [[ChristinaCristina Asquith Baker]]. She exhibited her work from the academy after her return to Australia at the [[Victorian Artists Society]]. In 1907 she exhibited in the [[Australian Exhibition of Women's Work|First Australian Exhibition of Women's Work]] which earned her prizes for portrait and figure painting.<ref>{{Citation |last=Phipps |first=Jennifer |title=Ada May Plante (1875–1950) |work=Australian Dictionary of Biography |url=https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/plante-ada-may-8062 |access-date=2024-02-20 |place=Canberra |publisher=National Centre of Biography, Australian National University |language=en}}</ref>

In 1932 she exhibited her work in the first exhibition of the Melbourne Contemporary Art Group.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.artrecord.com/index.cfm/artist/319-plante-ada-may/|title=Plante, Ada May – Artists – Australian Art Auction Records|website=www.artrecord.com|language=en|accessdate=1 September 2017}}</ref> She exhibited with the Contemporary Art Society in 1941 and 1943, and had her only solo exhibition at George's Gallery in 1945.

Throughout her life she lived in houses that she shared with other artists, allowing her to come into contact with many artists and be exposed to different ideas.{{citation needed|date=December 2019}} While the beginning of her career saw her painting in an impressionist style similar to [[James Abbott McNeill Whistler]],{{citation needed|date=December 2019}} she was later able to master the post-impressionist style through encouragement from artists such as [[William Frater]] and [[Lina Bryans]] with whom she lived in an artists' colony in "The Pink Hotel" at [[City of Darebin|Darebin]].<ref>Bryans, Lina (1986). The Pink Hotel. -Interview with artist Lina Bryans by Valerie Albiston-. In This Australia. 5 (4), 32-37.</ref>. She earned critical acclaim from Basil Burdett (1897–1942)<ref>{{Citation|last=Haese|first=Richard|title=Burdett, Basil (1897–1942)|url=http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/burdett-basil-5425|work=Australian Dictionary of Biography|publisher=National Centre of Biography, Australian National University|access-date=2019-12-19}}</ref> for her post -impressionist work.

Following her death in Melbourne on 3 July 1950, a memorial exhibition was held at the Stanley Coe Gallery<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.printsandprintmaking.gov.au/exhibitions/8181/|title=[Ada Plante memorial exhibition.] at Stanley Coe Gallery Australian Prints + Printmaking|website=www.printsandprintmaking.gov.au|access-date=2019-12-19}}</ref> in that city.<ref>{{cite news | url=http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/22913233 | title=Deaths | date=4 July 1950 | work=The Argus | accessdate=5 September 2017 | page=16}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.bridgetmcdonnellgallery.com.au/plante-ada-may/|title=Plante, Ada May – Bridget McDonnell Gallery|website=www.bridgetmcdonnellgallery.com.au|accessdate=1 September 2017|archive-date=5 September 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170905184630/http://www.bridgetmcdonnellgallery.com.au/plante-ada-may/|url-status=dead}}</ref>

[[Category:20th-century New Zealand women artists]]