Swinburne Technical College, Royal College of Art in London under Ernest Cole and Henry Moore
Known for
Sculpture
Notable work
Fairies' Tree, Head of a Virgin, Abraham, statue in Adelaide Pioneer Women's Garden
Movement
Modernist
Awards
Crouch Prize (1952), MBE
Ola Cohn (born Carola Cohn; 25 April 1892 – 23 December 1964) was an Australian artist, author and philanthropist best known for her work in sculpture in a modernist style, and famous for her Fairies Tree in the Fitzroy Gardens, Melbourne.[1][2][3]
^Deborah Edwards, Dictionary of Australian Artists online, Ola Cohn, Accessed 29 June 2009
OlaCohn (born Carola Cohn; 25 April 1892 – 23 December 1964) was an Australian artist, author and philanthropist best known for her work in sculpture...
Melbourne. In 1932 W. Leslie Bowles met with Dutton, Wallace Anderson, OlaCohn, George Allen and Charles Oliver, proposing to form a Sculptors' Society...
R. Sidney Cocks (1866–1939): artist Margaret Coen (1909–1993): artist OlaCohn (1892–1964): sculptor Colin Colahan (1897–1987): painter and sculptor,...
1963), US Mirit Cohen (1945–1990), Israel/US Nessa Cohen (1885–1976), US OlaCohn (1892–1964), Australia Claire Colinet (1892–1964), Belgium Elisabeth Collins...
Isobel Tweddle and Rupert Bunny, Sybil Craig, Guelda Pyke, Elma Roach, OlaCohn and Madge Freeman, and George Bell). Bryans created a free circle and was...
bought, shipped to Australia, and donated by the Grimwade family. Artist OlaCohn completes carving the Fairies Tree and donates it to the children of Melbourne...
shown. She was joined at this show by fellow artists Esther Paterson and OlaCohn. Woolcock would have success as a temporary art teacher at a girls' school...
exhibited with the association of Modernist sculptors formed in 1935 by OlaCohn, who named themselves The Plastic Group, and he also showed with Group...
Mirit Cohen (1945–1990), Israel Nessa Cohen (1885–1976), United States OlaCohn (1892–1964), Australia Marie-Anne Collot (1748–1821), France Marta Colvin...
members; a fairytale frieze by Jessie Traill and Ann Montgomery, plaques by OlaCohn, and the Australian blackwood table and bed were designed by Derham. She...
(1897–1989), painter, print maker Kay Cohen (born 1952), fashion designer OlaCohn (1892–1964), sculptor Bindi Cole (born 1975), photographer, video artist...
engravings for Australian banknotes released in 1953. In 1933 Bowles was, with OlaCohn, Wallace Anderson and Orlando Dutton, a founder of the short-lived Sculptors'...
was a member of the Victorian Sculptors' Society and with Anita Aarons, OlaCohn, Vincas Jomantas, Inge King, Julius Kane, Clifford Last, Clement Meadmore...
company A. Gordon Allard and Co. They included; Louis Abrahams Percival Ball OlaCohn Tennyson Cole Charles Conder E. Phillips Fox George Lambert John Longstaff...
Series. Paintings, Prints 1957: Exhibition of Sculpture. Anita Aarons, OlaCohn, Clifford Last, Lenton Parr, Clement Meadmore, Andor Mészáros, Tina Wentcher...
Baskerville, Eva Benson, Esther Belliss, Lorraine Boreham, Theresa Chauncy, OlaCohn, Theodora Cowan, Fairlie Cunningham, Marea Gassard, Ann Dobson, May Butler...
(10–15 December 1956) opened by architect Peter McIntyre; Anita Aarons, OlaCohn, Vincas Jolantas, Inge King, Julius Kane, Clifford Last, Clement Meadmore...
and John Longstaff. Modernists include Margaret Preston, Clifford Last, OlaCohn, Roland Wakelin, Joy Hester, Russell Drysdale, Judy Cassab, Fred Williams...
Isobel Tweddle and Rupert Bunny, Sybil Craig, Guelda Pyke, Elma Roach, OlaCohn and Madge Freeman and George Bell). The liberal, conservative modernists...
Council did accept the many works of art, including sculptures by her friend OlaCohn. She was a member of the Society of Friends, worshipping at the Friends...
Longstaff, Girolamo Nerli, Louis Abrahams, Rose Walker, George Lambert, and OlaCohn. Frequent visitors to the studio were Janet Cumbrae Stewart, Norah Gurdon...
in drawing was conspicuous and was praised by fellow students such as OlaCohn. Her illustration work supported her husband when he returned from the...
art to raise money for the war effort. MSWPS has met at heritage-listed OlaCohn House 41-43 Gipps Street, East Melbourne since the sculptor's death in...
Melbourne, State of Victoria. For services to the community. OlaCohn Green (Miss OlaCohn), of East Melbourne, State of Victoria. For services to Art...
Sculptors, with whom she served on the committee with Esther Paterson, OlaCohn, Jessie Mackintosh, Sybil Craig, Lina Bryans, and Violet McInnes. As well...
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