Ella Fry (née Robinson) (1916–1997) was an artist, musician, and chairperson of the Western Australian Art Gallery, in Perth, Western Australia from 1976 to 1986.
In 1940, she returned to Brisbane, where she worked as an artist and a pianist (recitals with the ABC and concert performances). From 1943 she taught music and art at the Tamworth Church of England Girls' School.
In 1945, she married Melville Leonard Fry. Two years later they moved to Perth where her dual career continued.[1]
In the early 1950s, she and her husband lived in Dalkeith,[2] but they moved to Boya in the hills east of Perth in later years. In August 1951 her work was featured in an exhibition at the Claude Hotchin Galleries in Perth,[3] and she had a one-woman exhibition at the Skinner Galleries, Perth, in 1960.[4]
She was first appointed to the Board of the Art Gallery of Western Australia in 1956 [5] Then she became vice-chairperson in 1970, then chairperson in 1976. In 1982 she was appointed a CBE.
In 1984, her book Gallery Images was published [6]
^Art Gallery of Western Australia; Fry, Ella, 1916–1997; Art Gallery of Western Australia (1984), Gallery images, St. George Books in association with the Art Gallery of Western Australia, ISBN978-0-86778-022-2{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)