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New Hall Art Collection
The Women's Art Collection (before 2022, the New Hall Art Collection) is a permanent collection of modern and contemporary art by women artists, at Murray Edwards College, Cambridge (previously New Hall), England. It includes over 600 works by artists of international renown and is now considered to be one of the largest and most significant collections of contemporary art by women in the world. Paintings, prints, and sculpture are displayed throughout Murray Edwards College in Cambridge. The College has no designated gallery and the works are displayed throughout its buildings and grounds. The modernist College buildings were completed in 1965 by Chamberlain, Powell and Bon and are Grade II* listed. Many of the works are on display to visitors and a self-guided tour is available from the Porters' Lodge. The aim of the Women’s Art Collection is "to champion artists who identify as women, to give them visibility and a voice, and promote their work within the ethos of an acade ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barbara Hepworth
Dame Jocelyn Barbara Hepworth (10 January 1903 – 20 May 1975) was an English artist and sculptor. Her work exemplifies Modernism and in particular modern sculpture. Along with artists such as Ben Nicholson and Naum Gabo, Hepworth was a leading figure in the colony of artists who resided in St Ives during the Second World War. Born in Wakefield, Yorkshire, Hepworth studied at Leeds School of Art and the Royal College of Art in the 1920s. She married the sculptor John Skeaping in 1925. In 1931 she fell in love with the painter Ben Nicholson, and in 1933 divorced Skeaping. At this time she was part of a circle of modern artists centred on Hampstead, London, and was one of the founders of the art movement Unit One. At the beginning of the Second World War, Hepworth and Nicholson moved to St. Ives, Cornwall, where she would remain for the rest of her life. Best known as a sculptor, Hepworth also produced drawings – including a series of sketches of operating rooms foll ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of 20th Century Women Artists
This is a partial list of 20th-century women artists, sorted alphabetically by decade of birth. These artists are known for creating artworks that are primarily visual in nature, in traditional media such as painting, sculpture, photography, printmaking, ceramics as well as in more recently developed genres, such as installation art, performance art, conceptual art, digital art and video art. Do not add entries for those without a Wikipedia article. The list covers artists born in 1870 through 1969. For later births see List of 21st-century women artists. Before 1870 *Louise Abbéma (1858–1927), painter, printmaker, sculptor *Helen Allingham (1848–1926), painter, illustrator * Laura Alma-Tadema (1852–1909), painter"Dictionary of Women Artists" Edited by Delia Gaze. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 1997, pp. 161-165. *Ester Almqvist (1869–1934), Swedish painter *Anna Ancher (1859–1935), Danish painter * Sophie Anderson (1823–1903), painter * Marie-Elmina Anger (1844 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Varsity (Cambridge)
''Varsity'' is the oldest of Cambridge University's main student newspapers. It has been published continuously since 1947 and is one of only three fully independent student newspapers in the UK. It moved back to being a weekly publication in Michaelmas 2015, and is published every Friday during term time. ''Varsity'' has received numerous awards, including repeated recognition at the now defunct ''Guardian'' Student Media Awards. History ''Varsity'' is one of Britain's oldest student newspapers. Its first edition was published on 17 January 1931, as ''Varsity: the Cambridge University Illustrated'' (later ''The Varsity Weekly'', and then the ''Cambridge Varsity Post''. However, the first few years saw ''Varsity'' get off to a shaky start. In 1932, a controversy about some of its stories resulted in the editor being challenged to a duel, and the following year the paper went bankrupt (having lost £100). Revival A variety of attempts to revive ''Varsity'' led to the paper ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wendy Taylor
Wendy Ann Taylor (born Stamford, Lincolnshire, 1945) is an English artist and sculptor, specialising in permanent, site-specific commissions. According to her website, she 'was one of the first artists of her generation to “take art out of the galleries and onto the streets”'. Her work typically consists of large sculptures which are displayed to appear carefully balanced. Early life and education Wendy Taylor studied from 1963 to 1967 at the Saint Martin's School of Art in London. She gained renown for her many sculptures in the public realm, especially in London. Career Taylor's abstract sculptures explore themes of equilibrium, materiality and fabrication. She views her artworks as communicative devices. From 1981 to 1999, Taylor was a Member of the Royal Fine Art Commission which now forms part of the Design Council. From 1986 to 1988, she was design consultant for the Commission for New Towns. In 1988, Taylor was the subject of a documentary on ''The South Bank S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julia Sorrell
Julia Sorrell (born 4 August 1955, in Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex) is a British artist known for her portraits and imaginative drawings and paintings using figures and natural forms such as wood, shells, rock and plants using a range of media from pencil, charcoal, pen & ink, pastel, watercolour and oil. She lives in Oxfordshire and exhibits in London at the Mall Galleries as a member of the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours. Early life Sorrell was born in Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex, the daughter of the artist Alan Sorrell (1904–1974) and the watercolourist Elizabeth Sorrell (1916–1991). She grew up in a converted chapel in Daws Heath, southeast Essex, surrounded by trees and woodlands which were to be an inspiration for her later work. Career She studied textiles and embroidery under Constance Howard MBE at Goldsmiths' College (1973–6) who purchased her work to use as examples in talks and publications. She was taught drawing by Betty Swanwick RA (who was to prod ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paula Rego
Paula or PAULA may refer to: Arts and entertainment Fictional characters * Paula, in video game ''EarthBound'' * Paula, in ''The Larry Sanders Show'' * Paula Campbell (''EastEnders''), in 2003 Film and television * ''Paula'' (1915 film), a silent film * ''Paula'' (1952 film), an American drama * ''Paula'' (2011 film), a Canadian animation * ''Paula'' (2016 film), a German film * ''Paula'' (TV series), 2017 Music * ''Paula'' (album), by Robin Thicke, 2014 * "Paula" (Zoé song), 2006 * "Paula", a 1972 song by Monica Verschoor * "Paula", a 1981 song by Tim Weisberg People * Paula (given name), including a list of people with the name * Paula of Rome (347–404), ancient Roman saint *Paula (surname) Other uses * Paula (computer chip), the sound chip of the Commodore Amiga computer * ''Paula'' (novel), memoir by Isabel Allende, 1994 * ''Paula'' (1876 barque), a German ship from which was sent the longest travelled message in a bottle * ''Paula'' (insect), a synonym for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gwen Raverat
Gwendolen Mary "Gwen" Raverat (née Darwin; 26 August 1885 – 11 February 1957), was an English wood engraver who was a founder member of the Society of Wood Engravers. Her memoir ''Period Piece'' was published in 1952. Biography Gwendolen Mary Darwin was born in Cambridge in 1885; she was the daughter of astronomer Sir George Howard Darwin and his wife, Lady Darwin (née Maud du Puy). She was the granddaughter of the naturalist Charles Darwin and a first cousin of poet Frances Cornford (née Darwin). She married the French painter Jacques Raverat in 1911. They were active in the Bloomsbury Group and Rupert Brooke's Neo-Pagan group until they moved to the south of France, where they lived in Vence, near Nice, until his death from multiple sclerosis in 1925. They had two daughters: Elisabeth (1916–2014), who married the Norwegian politician Edvard Hambro, and Sophie Jane (1919–2011), who married the Cambridge scholar M. G. M. Pryor and later Charles Gurney. Raverat is bu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emily Patrick
Emily Patrick (born 4 October 1959) is a British figurative painter. Biography Patrick grew up on a sheep farm in Kent. She studied architecture at the Architectural Association and Cambridge University. She paints in oil and tempera on gesso on wood. Her first solo exhibition at Thomas Agnew & Sons was the first in the gallery's history to sell out within three days. In 1987, she was commissioned to paint Diana, Princess of Wales for the Royal Hampshire Regiment. In 1988 she exhibited as a finalist in the BP Portrait Award at the National Portrait Gallery and in 1989 she won the Carroll Foundation Award of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters for the most promising portrait by an artist under 30. Since 1995 she has exhibited independently every two to three years in London and New York. Collections holding Patrick’s works include The Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment, the Women's Art Collection at Murray Edwards College, Cambridge, Winchester College, and the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cornelia Parker
Cornelia Ann Parker (born 14 July 1956) is an English visual artist, best known for her sculpture Sculpture is the branch of the visual arts that operates in three dimensions. Sculpture is the three-dimensional art work which is physically presented in the dimensions of height, width and depth. It is one of the plastic arts. Durable sc ... and installation art."Cornelia Parker RA" Royal Academy, Retrieved 20 November 2018. Life and career Parker was born in 1956 in Cheshire, England. She studied at the Gloucestershire College of Art and Design (1974–75) and Wolverhampton Polytechnic (1975–78). She received her MFA from Reading University in 1982 and honorary doctorates from the University of Wolverhampton in 2000, the University of Birmingham ( ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zelda Nolte
Zelda Nolte (1929–2003) was a South African- British sculptor and woodblock printmaker. Education Zelda Nolte studied at the Kunstgewerbeschule Zürich under the directorship of Johannes Itten, which became Zürcher Hochschule der Künste, and sculpture, at Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town under Professor Lippy Lipshitz.Three Centuries of South African Art: Fine Art, Architecture, Applied Arts, Hans Fransen (author); p334; "A number of Michaelis-trained pupils of Lippy Lipshitz are primarily modellers. Of these, the highly talented sculptors Merle Freund and Zelda Nolte are now living abroad (as is Richard Wake)." Retrieved 4 August 2016; AD. Donker (Publisher), 1982 Exhibitions and collections Nolte represented South Africa in the 1963 Sao Paulo Bienale. She has work in the collection of the Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape TownSouth African National Gallery, Cape Town, Annual Report of Iziko Museums of Cape Town, Iziko Museums of Cape Tow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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