Janie Wilkinson Whyte

Janie Wilkinson Whyte (1869–1953) was an Australian impressionist artist and part of the first wave of feminist artists in Melbourne.

Biography Canterbury bell flowers, ca. 1921–1930, State Library Victoria Whyte was a painter, etcher, and wood-carver who studied at the National Gallery School from 1890–1895 and together with Dora Wilson and Jessie Traill took lessons in etching from John Mather. Their etchings were published in The Lone Hand in 1907 as some of the earliest works in this field made by women. figure studies, and landscapes, and was one of the first Melbourne women to paint dockyard scenes. and Ipswich Girls Grammar School.

As part of a first wave of feminist artists in Melbourne, While a copy of her lecture was not archived it is said she discussed the struggle for Australian women artists to get recognition. She showed with the MSWPS in the 1920s.

Whyte died on 7 April 1953 at her home in Canterbury, Victoria, and was cremated. She was survived by a sister and numerous nieces and nephews.