Jean Appleton | |
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| Born | 13 September 1911 Ashfield, New South Wales, Australia |
| Died | 11 June 2003 (aged 91) Bowral, New South Wales, Australia |
| Nationality | Australian |
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| Occupation(s) | Painter, Art teacher, Printmaking |
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| Children | 1 |
Jean Appleton (13 September 1911 – 11 June 2003) was an Australian painter, art teacher and printmaker. She worked with oils, watercolour, charcoal, pastel, pencil and India ink. The second of three children and an only daughter, Appleton did a five-year diploma course in drawing and illustration at the East Sydney Technical College (now the National Art School).
She later moved to England and enrolled at the Westminster School of Art where she produced Australia's two earliest cubist paintings. After the Second World War broke out, Appleton returned to Australia in 1940, to teach art at three public schools to allow for the continuation of her work and assisted in the war effort by studying vocational therapy. Her work received a large amount of recognition from the art industry, and she earned four prizes.