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Zellman was born into a musical family, both his father and his elder brother were noted musicians. He grew up in Carlton and attended King's College in Fitzroy.{{citation needed|date=January 2016}} Victor mastered the viola and violin and performed in chamber orchestras as a young man.^[2] He trained at the National Gallery of Victoria Art School in Melbourne.^[3]{{better source|date=January 2016}} After finishing his training, Zelman exhibited with other groups of traditional artists in the general exhibitions organised by the various artists' societies in Melbourne including The Victorian Artists’ Society, The Melbourne Artists’ Society, The Fine Art Society, The Painters and Etchers’ Society, and The New Gallery and submitted work in various municipal art competitions and exhibitions.^[4]

In 1907 Zellman married Clara Borsa. He was 46 when he held his first solo exhibition of paintings in Melbourne. In August 1923 at a small gallery run by Margaret McLean^[5] in the Tunnocks building at 125 Collins Street. It was reviewed in both the Age and Argus newspapers. The unnamed Age reviewer described it as a "loveable little show amidst picturesque surroundings" and implied that Victor was known already and setting out in a new direction with his landscape paintings. Victor was firmly in the camp of the Traditionalists who dominated the Melbourne art scene until the end of the 1930s. This style continued to be taught at the National Gallery Art School in Melbourne firmly entrenched there by the views of the Gallery director James S. McDonald.

Plein aire and impressionist landscapes were the popular choice of the Melbourne art public at this time. It was at the very end of the era started by the Melbourne Heidleberg School in the 1880s and soon to be riven by huge challenges to its dominance by young artists such as George Bell in Melbourne and the founding of the Melbourne Contemporary Group in 1932. European Modernism was almost unknown in Melbourne at this time and throughout his career, Victor showed little interest in its many iterations.

The Age review encouraged him and the public by adding "Mr Zelman has paid us a charming complement -he exhibits only his best work … all carefully studied and entirely satisfactory panels." His reviewer hoped that "If promises are fulfilled he will carve himself a niche among Australian landscape painters." The review concluded, "We will watch with deep interest Mr. Zelman’s future work.^[6]^[7]"

Zelman continued to get encouraging reviews from the Argus and Age newspapers throughout the 1920s.^[8] The society gossip magazine Tabletop also reviewed his work favorably. His natural clientele was the comfortable middle class of Melbourne including so-called titled individuals who sometimes opened his exhibitions with condescending approval, but provided that cache of exclusiveness that was important in attracting sales. At one such opening, Lady Creswell claimed his name was "a household word in Victoria" and had painted in the hills on their property where she sent out a "jug of tea and cakes" to him to refresh him in his labors.^[9]

Throughout the 1920s and 1930s, Zelman travelled extensively throughout Victoria painting small plein aire scenes approximately 30 x 20 cm and studies for larger works up to 70 x 90 cm. He would stay for some time in an area working at a number of canvasses before returning to his studio. Amongst the places named in his paintings are Romsey, Carlsruhe, Croydon, Castlemaine, Glen Waverley, Dromana, Rosebud, Shoreham, Mooroolbark, Diamond Creek, Ashburton, Lilydale, Port of Melbourne and the Goulburn and Murray rivers. When at home he painted and etched many scenes from his local area, Hepburn Springs and Daylesford.

Gallery holdings

Exhibitions

Works sold since 1970

According to the Australian Art Sales Digest, 134 of Zelman's works have been sold between 1969 and 2016.^[13] As of 2016 the highest recorded price for a painting was A$14,500, while works on paper including prints and graphics have fetched up to $220.^[14] The following works have been sold at auction since 1970.

Oil on board

Many of the paintings have similar names. Different sizes of the boards indicated that all listed here are separate paintings.

Watercolors

Prints or etchings

References

1. ^Centre for Australian Art Victor Zelman
2. ^The Bendigo Independent, 25 October 1899, p.3. review of the Zelman Quartett’s concert of chamber music. Alberto [jun] violin, and Victor on viola were joined by Annibale Coy- violin and Claude Harrison - cello. Miss Alice Coy and Kitty Grindlay sang songs by Grieg and Dvorak.
3. ^Melbourne University Archives, National Gallery of Victoria Art School in Melbourne digitised photos. Ref 2007 0060 0019. A large group of students for 1895 shows an 18- year -old Victor amongst the students.
4. ^http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/32483390; -- /32485022; /32483971; / 32483021; /32484750; /32483454.
5. ^Margaret MacLean was also an artist and friend of Jessie Traill, print maker.
6. ^¹{{cite news|newspaper=The Age|title=Art Notes: Victor Zelman's Paintings|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article203624884|date= 8 August 1923|page=11}}
7. ^The Argus, 7 August 1923, p.12.
8. ^The Age [Melbourne], Fri 17 April 1925, p.10; also Tuesday 13 November 1928, p.7. The Argus [Melbourne], Friday 17 April 1925, p.18.
9. ^The Argus [Melbourne], Wed 14 Nov 1928, p.17.
10. ^Exhibition Catalogue, Exhibition of oil paintings held at the Fine Art Society's Galleries, 100 Exhibition Street, open from 17 – 29 April 1925, Melbourne, Victorian Printing Works, 1925. State Library of Victoria, digitized version retrieved 22 January 2016.
11. ^The Age (13 November 1928). "Zelman Landscapes: Light and Colour", p. 7
12. ^¹Centre for Australian Prints and Print Makin. Victor Zelman, Exhibitions
13. ^Australian Art Sales Digest. Victor Zellman. Retrieved 22 January 2016.
14. ^Australian Art Auction Records. Victor Zelman (1877-1960) Australia