Nelle Rodd
Australian cartoonist and illustrator
Nelle Marion Rodd (c. 1887 – 10 October 1915) was an Australian cartoonist and illustrator of books for children.
History
Rodd was the eldest daughter of William John Rodd (13 March 1856 – 23 November 1914) and Lissie Marion Rodd, née Robertson.
She was educated at Neutral Bay Public School, where she was an outstanding student, excelling in drawing, for which she had been taking extra tuition from a Mr Podmore of Mosman.
She later studied at the Sydney Art School, conducted by Julian Ashton and Syd Long, in whose 1908 exhibition she won numerous prizes and was reviewed appreciatively, particularly her depiction of a domestic quarrel.
She was a member of the Society of Women Painters, of which she was a founding member in 1910. She was an active member of the Society of Artists. and the Society of Women Painters.
In a 1912 drawing contest organised by the National Art Gallery for prizes contributed by Sir James Fairfax, Rodd's portrait of two young women came second to a study of old men by A. Dattilo Rubbo.
Her watercolor painting of historic Vaucluse House, on display at the Queen Victoria Markets, was the subject of a short article in by a Sydney Morning Herald critic, rating her as "one of our rising Sydney illustrators".
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