Catherine Dean (also known as Catherine Houthuesen) (16 October 1905 – 24 January 1983) was a British landscape and still-life artist, and at St Gabriel's Training College at the

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, she was an instructor and head of the Art Department.

Early life and education

Catherine Dean was born in Liverpool on 16 October 1905. Due to poor health, she attended a small private school from 1912 to 1920. Dean obtained a scholarship to Liverpool School of Art in 1921. She was awarded a traveling scholarship and a scholarship to attend the

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(RCA) in 1926. She met Albert Houthuesen, a fellow art student, in 1927. The following year she received a diploma in ARCA. In 1929 she took one year postgraduate training at RCA in painting.

Career

She taught art in Manchester at Withington School for Girls beginning in 1929. She was a part-time lecturer at LCC training college and taught classes for teachers at

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and Camberwell Schools of Art between 1931 and 1937. In 1931, she married

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. '' Sheep's Skull and Ferns'' (1935) is in

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's collection. She taught art at

's St Gabriel's Training College and became a lecturer in 1939, Senior Lecturer in 1945, and was made Principal Lecturer in 1956. She was known for her sensitivity and ability to bring out student's best qualities. During

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, the college evacuated to

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and later near

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. In 1945, she returned to London, but had no home. She became warden of the Elephant and Castle student's hostel. She lived with friends near

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in 1950 and purchased a house in

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in 1952. A third-year course with Catherine Houthuesen was offered to students to advance beyond the standard two-year art program. Her husband found works of art which became the 61-item St Gabriel's College Collection that spanned four centuries. In 1967, Catherine Houthuesen retired.

Later years

Houthuesen took care of her seriously-ill husband from her retirement until his death in 1979. She then coordinated the Memorial Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings by Albert Houthuesen (1903–79) held in 1981 at the South London Art Gallery. In 1982, a solo exhibition of her work was held in London at the Mercury Gallery. She died on 24 January 1983 and a memorial exhibition was held the following year at the Mercury Gallery.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Dean, Catherine 1905 births 1983 deaths 20th-century English women artists Alumni of Liverpool College of Art Alumni of the Royal College of Art Artists from Liverpool

Early life and education

Career

Later years

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