{{Short description|Australian artist (1875–1968}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2019}} {{Use Australian English|date=September 2019}} {{Infobox artist | name = Dora Serle | image = | imagesize = | caption = | birth_name = Dora Beatrice Hake | birth_date = {{birth date|1875|9|2|df=y}} | birth_place = Melbourne, Victoria, Australia | death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|1968|9|10|1875|9|2}} | death_place = Melbourne, Victoria, Australia | education = | field = Painting | training = | movement = | works = | patrons = | awards = | spouse = {{marriage|Percival Serle|1910|1951}} | partner = }}
'''Dora Beatrice Serle''' (1875–1968), was an Australian painter. She was the president of the Melbourne Society of Women Painters and Sculptors from 1933 to 1934.
== Biography == Serle was born on 2 September 1875 in Melbourne, Australia.<ref name="ngv">{{cite web|title=Dora Serle|url=https://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/explore/collection/artist/517/|website=National Gallery of Victoria|access-date=1 April 2018}}</ref>
She studied at the National Gallery school where she was taught by Phillips Fox, Jane Sutherland, and Walter Withers.<ref name="AustralianDictionary">{{cite Australian Dictionary of Biography |last1=Serle|first1=Geoffrey|title=Serle, Dora Beatrice (1875–1968)|id2=serle-dora-beatrice-8555|access-date=1 April 2018}}</ref> She attended the Gallery School with her sister Elsie Barlow.<ref name="AustralianArtGallery">{{cite web|title=Elsie Frederica Barlow|url=https://www.australian-art-gallery.com/australian-artists/Elsie-Frederica-Barlow-A375.htm|website=Australian Art Gallery|access-date=31 March 2018}}</ref>
In 1902 Serle travelled to Paris, France, where she was exposed to the Impressionists, which influenced her subsequent work.<ref name="AustralianDictionary" />
In 1910 she married the scholar Percival Serle (1871–1951).<ref name="AustralianDictionary" /> In 1922 she gave birth to their third child, Geoffrey Serle, an historian and Rhodes Scholar.
Serle was a member of the Victorian Artists Society, the Melbourne Society of Women Painters and Sculptors and the Lyceum Club.<ref name="AustralianDictionary" />
She died on 10 September 1968 at Hawthorn, Melbourne.<ref name="Trove">{{cite web|title=Serle, Dora (1875–1968)|url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/people/615691?c=people|website=Trove|publisher=National Library of Australia|access-date=1 April 2018}}</ref>
Hacke Place in the Canberra suburb of Conder is named in her honour and that of her younger sister Elsie Barlow, a founder of Castlemaine Art Museum, the misspelling of their maiden name being gazetted in 1988.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article237708927|title=National Memorial Ordinance 1928 Determination of Nomenclature Australian Capital Territory National Memorials Ordinance 1928 Determination of Nomenclature|date=1988-08-31|work=Commonwealth of Australia Gazette. Periodic (National : 1977–2011)|access-date=2020-01-08|pages=1}}</ref>
== Exhibitions == Dora exhibited with the Victorian Artists Society, but faced the prevalent prejudice against those of her gender; of her contribution to its October 1950 Spring exhibition, critic Alan Warren offered a passing mention: "Women painters, such as Violet Mclnnes, Dora Serle, Marjorie Woolcock, Dorothy Stephen, Roma Ward, Lesley Sinclair and Mary Macqueen have produced some competent pictures in their respective spheres." * 1943, from 1 December; Inclusion in a group show of ninety-one paintings and etchings with Arnold Shore, Max Meldrum, John Rowell, Jas. Quinn, John Farmer, Mary Hurry, Allan Jordan, Margaret Pestell, Dora Wilson, Isabel Tweddle, Aileen Dent, Murray Griffin, Geo. Colville, and Victor Cog. Hawthorn Library.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2 December 1943 |title=Art exhibition at Hawthorn |pages=4 |work=The Age}}</ref>
== Legacy == Serle's paintings are in the collections of the National Gallery of Australia and the National Gallery of Victoria.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://artsearch.nga.gov.au/detail.cfm?irn=44172|title=Summertime, Croydon|last=Dora|first=SERLE|website=artsearch.nga.gov.au|access-date=2018-04-01}}</ref><ref name="Trove" />
== References == {{reflist}}
== External links == *[https://www.mutualart.com/Artist/Dora-Serle/6AD41F14BA5EC596/Artworks images of Dora Serle's paintings] on MutualArt *[http://search.slv.vic.gov.au/permalink/f/1cl35st/SLV_VOYAGER1088545 Dora Serle] [Australian art and artists file], ''State Library Victoria''
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