![]() ![]() ![]() Despite all the difficulties and hardships she endured, Bowen remained true to herself and to her passion for art and life. It also allowed her to break all the social conventions previously imposed on her by falling in love with a married man nineteen years her senior and having his daughter. It took her from a provincial Australian city into the literary milieu of England and France, which expanded her horizons beyond anything she could have imagined. This quest led her from England to France, America and eventually back to England. ![]() Having left a comfortable Adelaide middle-class upbringing in 1914 to find artistic training in Europe, Bowen spent the next thirty-three years seeking her own visual form of expression. 2 But it is for her art that she is remembered today, in particular, the war drawings and paintings she created towards the end of her life. Her death is a waste, for she had so much to live for and such a genius for living. After Bowens death on 30 October 1947, her friend Keith Hancock wrote to her daughter, Julia Loewe: Stella was the most courageous, vital and harmonious personality that I have known. The expatriate Australian artist Stella Bowen was a woman of enormous integrity and generosity. ![]() Consider what a great girl you are, only don't cry. Consider what o'clock it is,consider what a long way you've come today. ![]()
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