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Phyllis McLachlan (Aust., 1905-1998).

[Chinese Emperor]

c1920s. Watercolour and ink, signed “Phil McLachlan” in ink upper left, 36 x 30.7cm. Slight stains to margins.

Provenance: artist’s estate.

Phyllis Laishley McLachlan, on leaving school at the age of 16, studied with Thea Proctor, and at the Julian Ashton School. She first showed her watercolours at a Society of Women Painters’ exhibition in Sydney in 1922, and held her first one-woman show in 1924. McLachlan was best known for her cover designs for The Home and Triad magazines. She married Sir John Collins (1899-1989), a distinguished and lauded naval officer and diplomat. In 1938 she designed costumes for the reenactment of the First Fleet’s arrival in Sydney Cove for the Australia Day Sesquicentenary celebrations. Ref: SLNSW.

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Item #CL183-115

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