Name Alice Ellen | Died February 14, 1955 | |
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Alice Marian Ellen Bale (11 November 1875 – 14 February 1955) was an Australian artist.
Bale was born in Melbourne, the daughter of naturalist William Mountier Bale. She studied art under Frederick McCubbin and L Bernard Hall at the National Gallery School 1895–1904. She came to prominence as an artist in Melbourne in the 1920s and 1930s, developing a reputation as one of Australia's pre-eminent flower and still life painters.
She was the founding secretary of the Twenty Melbourne Painters Society, a position that she held until her death.
She exhibited with the Melbourne Society of Women Painters 1917–1955.
AME Bale Travelling Scholarship and Art Prize
Bale established the biennial A.M.E. Bale Travelling Scholarship and Art Prize through her will to support Australian artists in perpetuity. The prize "is intended to encourage, support and advance classical training of emerging artists (in their early to mid-career) at any stage of life, who are pursuing the study and practice of traditional art and who desire to study the works of old masters".
Three prizes are awarded:
Award winners: 2016; 2014; 2012; 2011