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January 2026: work in progress - these pages are being updated   A selection of formal portraits by Ruth Hollick most of these were downloaded from the State Library of Victoria web site - and digitally cleaned up Captions for the photographs are being added. Ruth Hollick:    Main Page   |   photographs   |   portraits   Girl leaning against bucket of flowers   The necklace 1930   Portrait c1910   The constant nymphs   Girl holding cat   Miss M Whitehead     Miss Wynn Jones   Mr & Mrs Jones [handstand]   ,Mrs.A.E.M Kirkwood   Aga Lahoska. Performance in Melbourne 1924.   Mrs N. R. Mackintosh (Anne)   R. G. Lucken; illustration for Women's World magazine   Dame Melba for Woman's World   Dame Melba with baby.   Miss Sugden (Unknown what the connectiuon is to the photograph)   Mrs J H Mirams   Miss J Purves-Smith   Miss M Seale     Miss E Naughton   Fashion photograph for Buckley and Nunn in The Home magazine   Fashionphotograph for Myers in The Home magazine   Baby in check overalls   Photograph for Myers in The Home magazine   Miss Mollie   Sergeant John Francies Izard   child of Mrs Marcus (Marjorie) Barlow   Collection University of Melbourne Archives: May Macgeorge at the Macgeorge’s home ‘Fairyhills’ in Ivanhoe. May Ina Hepburn was born in 1882, the granddaughter of pioneering pastoralist Capt. John Stuart Hepburn of Smeaton, Victoria. In January 1911 she married Norman Macgeorge, a painter, art educator and art reviewer. In the same year, the Macgeorges engaged Harold Desbrowe Annear to design them their house at the junction of the Yarra River and Darebin Creek, Ivanhoe, where they lived for the rest of their lives. May died in 1970.   Collection University of Melbourne Archives: Norman Macgeorge at 'Fairyhills' ('Ballangeich'), 25 Riverside Road, Ivanhoe Norman Macgeorge standing against a wall of his home ‘Fairyhills’ in Ivanhoe. Norman was born in Adelaide on 8 July 1872, the son of a prosperous draper. He studied art at the Adelaide School of Design and the National Gallery School in Melbourne and then taught drawing at Wesley College, 1902-1906, the Melbourne Teachers’ College and Melbourne Church of England Grammar, 1902-32. He married May Ina Hepburn on 25 Jan 1911, the granddaughter of pioneering pastoralist, Capt. John Hepburn. In the same year, the Macgeorges engaged Harold Desbrowe Annear to design them a house at the junction of the Yarra River and Darebin Creek, Ivanhoe, Melbourne, where they lived for the rest of their lives. Macgeorge painted lyrical landscapes but was also interested in the modern art movements of Europe. He was active in art education and gave regular lectures at the National Gallery and to university extension classes, wrote art reviews for the Melbourne Herald, exhibited his works and, in 1938, helped establish the Contemporary Art Society. He published two works, The Borovansky Ballet in Australia and New Zealand (1946) and The arts in Australia (1948). He died on 2 Sept 1952. Inscription: "1912" is written in ink beneath the photograph   Collection University of Melbourne Archives: Una Fraser at 21.       watch this space for more...       For a selection of other photographs- click here Return to the Ruth Hollick main page