A children's book illustrated by Spowers, Cuthbert and the Dogs, was published the year after her death. Spowers apparently destroyed some of her original works late in life. In 2011, Ethel Spowers' Wet Afternoon sold in New York City for £51,650, much higher than any of her previous works had brought at auction. The next year, Spowers' The Gust of Wind more than doubled that mark, selling for £114,050 in April 2012, a record price for any Grosvenor School print up to that date. The Art Gallery NSW holds several of her works, some from an early period of realistic illustrations, others showing the marked influence of her time at the Grosvenor School. The National Gallery of Australia holds 47 of her prints executed in the 1920s and 1930s. Her prints are also held in the National Gallery of Victoria and the Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Victoria. The British Museum and the Victoria and Albert Museum purchased a number of her linocuts. Gallery References 1890 births 1947 deaths Australian women artists Alumni of the Grosvenor School of Modern Art People educated at Melbourne Girls Grammar Australian printmakers Color engravers People from South Yarra, Victoria People from Toorak, Victoria Artists from Melbourne National Gallery of Victoria Art School alumni 20th-century engravers