Rowan, Marian Ellis (1848 - 1922)

Rowan maintained that she received no formal art training. She received encouragement from her family and husband, Frederick Charles Rowan, whom she married in 1873, to develop her own style in painting wildflowers.
Her work was exhibited in both Australia and overseas for which she won a variety of art prizes.

Related Cultural Artefacts

• Ellis Rowan Building (1966 - )

Books

• Press Opinions of Mrs F C Rowan's Water-color Flower Drawings, Stenlake & Simpson, Printers, [London], [1905], 19 pp. [ Details... ]
• Collins, Kate, Ellis Rowan 1848-1922: A Biographical Sketch, Oz Publishing, Milton, Qld, 1988, 52 pp. [ Details... ]
• McKay, Judith, Ellis Rowan, A Flower-Hunter in Queensland, Queensland Museum, South Brisbane, 91 pp. [ Details... ]
• Rowan, Ellis, A Flower-Hunter in Queensland & New Zealand, Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1898, 272 pp. [ Details... ]
• Rowan, Ellis, 1848-1922, Bill Baillie, Whitecombe and Tombs, Melbourne, 1908. [ Details... ]
• Rowan, Ellis, 1848-1922, Flower Paintings of Ellis Rowan: from the collection of the National Library of Australia, National Library of Australia, Canberra, 1987, 20 pp. [ Details... ]
• Rowan, Marian Ellis (Ryan), 1847-1922, Catalogue of Water Colour Drawings of Wild Flowers etc., [Melbourne, n.d.], [4] pp. [ Details... ]

Journal Articles

• Whitaker, Dinah, 'Botanical and Wildlife Artist, Intrepid Explorer and Writer', Australian Garden History, vol. 7, no. 6, 1966, pp. 7-9. [ Details... ]

Online Resources

• 'Rowan, Marian Ellis (1848 - 1922), Biographical Entry', in Bright Sparcs, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, 2002, http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/biogs/P002817b.htm. [ Details... ]
• Harvey, Rod, 'Ellis Rowan (1848-1922)', Australian National Botancial Gardens, http://www.anbg.gov.au/biography/rowan.biography.html. [ Details... ]

See also

• Australian Dictionary of Biography Online, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au. [ Details... ]
• Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, 'Where are the Women in Australian science?', 22 August 2003, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/wisa/wisa.html. [ Details... ]
• Dixon, Royal, The Human Side of Trees: Wonders of the World, Fitch, Franklin Everett, Frederick A Stokes Co., New York, c1917, 199 pp. [ Details... ]
• Lounsberry, Alice, A Guide to the Wild Flowers, Frederick A Stokes, New York, 1899, 347 pp. [ Details... ]
• Lounsberry, Alice, Southern Wild Flowers and Trees: Together with Shrubs, Vines and various forms of growth through the Mountains, the Middle District and the Low Country of the South, Frederick A Stokes, New York, 1901, 570 pp. [ Details... ]
• Lounsberry, Alice, A Guide to the Trees, Frederick A Stokes Co., New York, c1900, 313 pp. [ Details... ]
• Radi, Heather (ed.), 200 Australian Women: A Redress Anthology, Women's Redress Press, Sydney, 1988, 258 pp. (Also available at http://www.200australianwomen.com/) [ Details... ]