Alison Rehfisch

Alison Baily Rehfisch (23 January 1900 – 12 March 1975) was an Australian painter born in Sydney.

Early life Alison Rehfisch was born as Alison Baily Green on 23 January 1900 in Woollahra, Sydney, and grew up in Mosman. Her mother, who was a proficient sculptor, painter and musician, encouraged her interest in painting and drawing. As a student at Redlands School, Cremorne from 1913–15, she was influenced by the painter Albert Collins.

Upon leaving school, she studied at the Julian Ashton Art School before marrying in 1919 and as Alison Rehfisch studied around 1925 under Antonio Dattilo Rubbo at the Royal Art Society. It was here she met George Duncan and they began sharing studio space.

Career She began exhibiting at the Blaxland Gallery in 1929 and it was around this time that she and her husband split up and she moved into a studio apartment with Dorrit Black, Rah Fizelle, Thea Proctor and Adelaide Perry. She left for London in 1933, where she studied, worked and travelled, including a 3-month stay in Spain. After hearing of her husband's death in 1938, she returned to Sydney and in 1942 married George Duncan. the Cruthers Collection of Women's Art at the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery at the University of Western Australia, in the Art Gallery of New South Wales, and the National Portrait Gallery of Australia.

Exhibitions She held exhibitions at Blaxland Gallery in 1933 and Macquarie Galleries in 1933, 1939, 1946, 1949 and 1958

A joint retrospective of George's and Alison's work was held at Macquarie Galleries in 1976.

Awards 1929: Royal Art Society Prize for Still Life