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ORDBROWN, Joyce

Born: 1894
Died: 1974

Artist


Born 1894 (Port Shepstone, Natal) Died 1974 (East London)

An artist who designed artworks for the Ceramic Studio.

Trained at the Westminster and Lambeth Art Schools, London (1909-11); Johannesburg Art School (1914) and Michaelis School of Art. Taught art in Johannesburg and Stellenbosch. (Grania Ogilvie, The Dictionary of South African painters and sculptors, Everard Read, JHB, 1988)

She illustrated a book of Lewis Bernard Child Heroes of South Africa 1940.

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Post Office: 1938. Balfour, Eastern Cape - Artist tiled panel
Post Office: 1938. Dordrecht, Eastern Cape - Artist tiled panel
Post Office: 1937. Noordhoek, Western Cape - Artist tiled panel
Post Office: 1939. Petrusville, Northern Cape - Artist tiled panel
Post Office: 1937. St James, Western Cape - Artist tiled panel

Books citing ORDBROWN

Hillebrand, Melanie. 1991. The women of Olifantsfontein - South African studio ceramics : Die vroue van Olifantsfontein - Suid-Afrikaanse ateljee-keramiek . Pretoria: South African National Gallery. pp 15