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Stella Bowen. Esther Gwendolyn "Stella" Bowen (1893–1947) was an Australian artist and writer. Early career. Bowen was born in North Adelaide, an inner suburb of Adelaide, South Australia, [1] and educated at Tormore House School. As a young girl, Bowen enjoyed drawing and convinced her mother to allow her to study with Margaret Preston.
The expatriate Australian artist Stella Bowen was a woman of enormous integrity and generosity. After Bowens death on 30 October 1947, her friend Keith Hancock wrote to her daughter, Julia Loewe: Stella was the most courageous, vital and harmonious personality that I have known ...
In 2000 the Australian War Memorial travelling exhibition and publication Stella Bowen: Art, love & war toured to regional Australia, bringing the artist’s remarkable work—still largely unknown—to the attention of a wider audience.
Esther Gwendolyn (Stella) Bowen (1893-1947), portrait painter and official war artist, was born on 16 May 1893 at North Adelaide, daughter of Thomas Hopkins Bowen (d.1896), surveyor, and his wife Esther Eliza, née Perry (d.1913). She was known in Adelaide as Estelle and in London as Stella.
Stella Bowen is best known in Australia for the works of art she completed while an official war artist. During the Second World War, Bowen worked in Britain depicting the activities of Bomber Command and the return of Prisoners of War from Germany.
Stella Bowen (1893–1947) was born in Adelaide and studied drawing for a short time under the inspiring guidance of Margaret Preston. In 1914 she moved to England to study at the Westminster School of Art under English painter and printmaker Walter Sickett.
The Second World War brought a surprising, new chapter in Stella's career. In 1944 she was appointed an official war artist by the Australian War Memorial. Her brief was to depict the activities of the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) stationed in England.
