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Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Sitting portraits, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

Artist Feature | Caroline Barker This International Women's Day, we share the work of ​Brisbane artist, Caroline Barker (1894–1988) known primarily for her portraits and still life. ​The work pictured here, 'Untitled (life class model)' was painted in the mid 1920s, after Caroline returned from Europe. ​ ​She shared a studio with Vida Lahey before establishing her own studio which "…was host to visitors from all parts of the globe. Brisbane was a very cosmopolitan city in those war years. The studio became affectionately known as Grand Central Station. It was frequently used for rehearsal of the performing arts. Life classes were held once a week. The studio was crowded with servicemen and women from England, Canada and America. It was a shilling each. Some artists had easels, many sat on the floor, and the war was forgotten for just a short time…" Archie Collins. ​ Caroline also taught art at several Brisbane girl's schools, including Somerville House where her students included Margaret Olley and Margaret Cilento. ​ Celebrate #IWD2020 and visit our current exhibition New Woman, recognising the lives of Brisbane women artists over the past 100 years. Closes March 15. ​ ​Image: Caroline Barker, Untitled (life class model), c1925, oil on canvas, photo: Carl Warner, gift of the artist, 1982, City of Brisbane Collection, Museum of Brisbane ​#EachforEqual Source: www.facebook.com/MuseumofBrisbane/posts/artist-feature-ca...

nice shot

Looking at the objects in the case on the left they look like fancy bottles for perfume or scent? I tried to see if there was any hint in the reflection in the glass of the Easons display but the angle may have been wrong. Nice photo and obviously good advertising at the time. Varians had a factory in Capel Street if memory serves me right though it is gone since the early 70's.

I worked in the North of Ireland for around seven years in the 1970s, and I remember Eason's in Donegall Street very well. They were a very 'establishment' bookshop, but even so, they could also acquire books which were deeply frowned on, if not banned, by the authorities. One such book, which I still have, was Patriot Graves - Resistance in Ireland by P. Michael O'Sullivan - an American book of images and narrative which sympathetically documented the activities of the IRA. In those days, it became a collector's item - I don't know whether it still is.

They even sell "fancy goods".

Peter Denton We don't seem to have a copy of Patriot Graves in the Library! :(