Madge Oliver (18 September 1875 – 11 September 1924) was a British artist who painted interiors and landscapes and lived and worked in France for many years.

Biography

Oliver was born in

Knaresborough Knaresborough ( ) is a market and spa town and civil parish in the Borough of Harrogate, in North Yorkshire, England, on the River Nidd. It is east of Harrogate. History Knaresborough is mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086 as ''Chenares ...

Yorkshire Yorkshire ( ; abbreviated Yorks), formally known as the County of York, is a historic county in northern England and by far the largest in the United Kingdom. Because of its large area in comparison with other English counties, functions have ...

and studied at the

Slade School of Art The UCL Slade School of Fine Art (informally The Slade) is the art school of University College London (UCL) and is based in London, England. It has been ranked as the UK's top art and design educational institution. The school is organised as ...

in London from 1894 to 1897. Oliver won a Slade scholarship in 1896 with the other winner that year being

Augustus John Augustus Edwin John (4 January 1878 – 31 October 1961) was a Welsh painter, draughtsman, and etcher. For a time he was considered the most important artist at work in Britain: Virginia Woolf remarked that by 1908 the era of John Singer Sarge ...

. Oliver moved to France in 1910 and settled in

Cassis Cassis (; Occitan: ''Cassís'') is a commune situated east of Marseille in the department of Bouches-du-Rhône in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region, whose coastline is known in English as the French Riviera, in Southern France. In 201 ...

near Marseilles. She was decorated for her service during World War One. Oliver mainly painted interiors but also figures and landscapes, mainly of France. She had a solo exhibition in Paris at the Druet Gallery in 1924. Oliver died on Corsica and a memorial exhibition, with a catalogue introduction written by

Ethel Walker Dame Ethel Walker (9 June 1861 – 2 March 1951) was a Scottish painter of portraits, flower-pieces, sea-pieces and decorative compositions. From 1936, Walker was a member of The London Group. Her work displays the influence of Impressionism, Puv ...

, for her was held at the Leger Galleries in London during June and July 1935. The

Tate Tate is an institution that houses, in a network of four art galleries, the United Kingdom's national collection of British art, and international modern and contemporary art. It is not a government institution, but its main sponsor is the U ...

acquired two paintings by Oliver, both showing views from her studio in Cassis, from the 1935 exhibition.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Oliver, Madge 1875 births 1924 deaths 20th-century English women artists 20th-century English painters Alumni of the Slade School of Fine Art Artists from Yorkshire English women painters People from Knaresborough