Polly Hurry
Polly Hurry, was an Australian painter. She was a founding member of the Australian Tonalist movement and part of the Twenty Melbourne Painters Society.Biography
Mary 'Polly' Hurry was born in 1883 in Kyneton, Victoria, daughter of Henry Hurry and Mary Herring. She was the middle child of two siblings, Maurice and George. She was a part of the group, Twenty Melbourne Painters Society, that was formed by students and followers of Australian Tonalist Max Meldrum. Hurry was also a member of the Melbourne Society of Women Painters and Sculptors. In 1921 Hurry was a finalist for the Archibald Prize. The same year she traveled with her husband, John Farmer, to China, Japan, and South Korea. Hurry died in 1963.Legacy
In 1978 a street in the Canberra suburb of Chisholm was named Hurry Place in her honour.
In 2009 Hurry was included in the retrospective exhibition Misty moderns: Australian Tonalists 1915–1950.
