The Artists

May Vale

MAY VALE
GIRL READING, c. 1890

MAY VALE
Australia 1862-1945

GIRL READING, c. 1890
oil on canvas, 25.6 x 20.7 cm
Collection: Castlemaine Art Gallery and Historical Museum

May Vale, has captured in this intimate work, her younger sister, Faith, who was born in Fitzroy in 1879. Faith would have been around eleven years of age when she posed for this painting.

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Left: Arthur Streeton - Above Us The Great Grave Sky, 1890
Collection: National Gallery of Australia, Canberra.