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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 1993-10-20 human McCarthy, G.J. updated 2025-10-29 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P001200b.htm person Pink Olive Muriel AACR2 17 March 1884 6 July 1975 Place of Birth Hobart, Tasmania, Australia Place of Death Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia Anthropologist Botanical artist Olive Pink travelled on the railway between Quorn, South Australia and Alice Springs in June-December 1930, after a drought had broken, stopping to sketch flowers wherever railway workers reported them. She made further sketches around Alice Springs 1957-1960.

Educated in art at Hobart Technical College. Tracer, Public Works Department and later the Railways Commission of New South Wales. Studied anthropology with the Workers' Educational Association and became secretary to the Anthropological Society of New South Wales. Trips in 1926 & 1927 to Ooldea on the Transcontinental Line, SA. Many of her early drawings of desert flora were completed here. Retrenched in 1930 and moved to NT, living first with the Aboriginal people in the Tanami Desert and settling eventually in Alice Springs. In 1955 made application to the Assistant Administrator for reservation of an area of land on the eastern bank of the Todd as a flora reserve. In 1956 the Australian Arid Regions Flora Reserve of 20 hectares was gazetted. After her death it was renamed the Olive Pink Flora Reserve.

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 'Pink, Olive Muriel', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Pink, Olive Muriel Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Book Section: Pink, Olive Muriel (1884-1975), artist, Aboriginal-rights activist, anthropologist and gardener Marcus, Julie Pink, Olive Muriel (1884-1975), artist, Aboriginal-rights activist, anthropologist and gardener Melbourne Melbourne University Press 2002 Australian dictionary of biography, volume 16: 1940 - 1980 Pik-Z John Ritchie and Diane Langmore 4-5 Journal Article: Miss Pink's garden: the creation of an arid zone botanic garden Marcus, Julie Miss Pink's garden: the creation of an arid zone botanic garden 1998 Australian garden history 10 3 11-4 Book: First in their field: women and Australian anthropology Marcus, Julie First in their field: women and Australian anthropology Melbourne Melbourne University Press 1989 Journal Article: Olive Pink - an early student of the art school who donated her artworks to the University of Tasmania Ward, Gillian Olive Pink - an early student of the art school who donated her artworks to the University of Tasmania 2017 Tasmanian Historical Studies 22 91-3 Book: Olive Pink: artist, activist and gardener Ward, Gillian Olive Pink: artist, activist and gardener Richmond, Vic. Hardie Grant Books 2018 Journal Article: Olive Pink as artist - a remarkable Tasmanian Ward, Gillian Olive Pink as artist - a remarkable Tasmanian 2015 Tasmanian Historical Research Association Papers and Proceedings 62 1 19-33 Journal Article: Gallant Desert Flora: Olive Pink's Australian Arid Regions Flora Reserve Beudel, Saskia and Daly, Margo Gallant Desert Flora: Olive Pink's Australian Arid Regions Flora Reserve 2014 Historical Records of Australian Science 25 2 227-52 Book: The Indomitable Miss Pink: a Life in Anthropology Marcus, Julie The Indomitable Miss Pink: a Life in Anthropology Sydney University of New South Wales Press 2001 Olive Muriel Pink - Records University of Tasmania Library, Special/Rare Collection Olive Muriel Pink - Records P.6 1930 - 1960 Sketches, in pencil and crayon, of the flora of the arid regions of South Australia and around Alice Springs c1930 and 1957-60 [64 items, P.6]. 64 sketches Olive Muriel Pink - Records South Australian Museum Archives Olive Muriel Pink - Records A.D. 15 1935 - 1938 Correspondence c1938 between Pink and T.D. Campbell, a member of the Board for Anthropological Research, University of Adelaide; correspondence c1937-9 between Pink and J.B. Cleland, University of Adelaide; correspondence c1935-7 between Pink and J.B. Cleland concerning a controversy over research in Western Australia and Tasmania; also held is a wooden tjuringa [A.D. 15]. Objects