INF3-30 Tower Bridge Artist Eve Kirk 1939-1946

Eve Kirk (22 July 1900 - 1969) was a British landscape and decorative painter.

Life and career

Kirk was born in London on 22 July 1900. She studied at the

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from 1919 to 1922, and later travelled to France, Italy and Greece. Her first solo exhibition was at the Paterson Gallery in 1930.

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- who later painted her portrait - wrote an introduction to the exhibition catalogue in which he said: :"With a curious swiftness and certainty she has captured a method, a technique which seems to provide a perfect means for the interpretation of the subjects of her choice, the streets, the quays and the market-places of Provence, Italy or London." Kirk later exhibited at Arthur Tooth & Sons, in 1932 and 1935, and alongside Paul Nash in 1939 and at the

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in 1949. During the Second World War, Kirk worked for civil defence in London, but continued to paint and held an exhibition in 1943 at the Leicester Galleries. Her painting ''Bomb Damage in the City'' was shown as part of the exhibition of National War Pictures at the Royal Academy of Arts in 1945. She was commissioned to decorate the Roman Catholic Church of God The Holy Ghost, Penygloddfa in

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, in the mid-1940s. In the mid-1950s she emigrated to Italy and ceased to paint. She died in Siena in 1969.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Kirk, Eve 1900 births 1969 deaths 20th-century English painters 20th-century English women artists Alumni of the Slade School of Fine Art Artists from London British landscape painters British war artists English women painters World War II artists British emigrants to Italy 20th-century women painters