The Women Who Shaped Modern Art in Britain
An illustrated look at the pivotal and often overlooked role women played in the development of modern British art.

This book tells the stories of determined women like Helen Sutherland, Margaret Gardiner, Myfanwy Piper, and many more who helped change the course of British art in the middle of the last century. Whether as artists, friends, supporters, collectors, curators, or gallerists, their contributions played a central role in the emergence of artists such as Barbara Hepworth, Piet Mondrian, Alfred Wallis, Christopher Wood, and Francis Bacon. Hitherto overshadowed by their male counterparts, these women had a vigor and passion that set London on its course to become an art metropolis to rival Paris and New York in the 1940s through the 60s. Fully illustrated with key works of art, this volume shares their stories. In doing so, it peels back the curtain on the inner workings of the mid-twentieth-century British art scene.
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The Women Who Shaped Modern Art in Britain
An illustrated look at the pivotal and often overlooked role women played in the development of modern British art.

This book tells the stories of determined women like Helen Sutherland, Margaret Gardiner, Myfanwy Piper, and many more who helped change the course of British art in the middle of the last century. Whether as artists, friends, supporters, collectors, curators, or gallerists, their contributions played a central role in the emergence of artists such as Barbara Hepworth, Piet Mondrian, Alfred Wallis, Christopher Wood, and Francis Bacon. Hitherto overshadowed by their male counterparts, these women had a vigor and passion that set London on its course to become an art metropolis to rival Paris and New York in the 1940s through the 60s. Fully illustrated with key works of art, this volume shares their stories. In doing so, it peels back the curtain on the inner workings of the mid-twentieth-century British art scene.
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The Women Who Shaped Modern Art in Britain

The Women Who Shaped Modern Art in Britain

by James Scott
The Women Who Shaped Modern Art in Britain

The Women Who Shaped Modern Art in Britain

by James Scott

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An illustrated look at the pivotal and often overlooked role women played in the development of modern British art.

This book tells the stories of determined women like Helen Sutherland, Margaret Gardiner, Myfanwy Piper, and many more who helped change the course of British art in the middle of the last century. Whether as artists, friends, supporters, collectors, curators, or gallerists, their contributions played a central role in the emergence of artists such as Barbara Hepworth, Piet Mondrian, Alfred Wallis, Christopher Wood, and Francis Bacon. Hitherto overshadowed by their male counterparts, these women had a vigor and passion that set London on its course to become an art metropolis to rival Paris and New York in the 1940s through the 60s. Fully illustrated with key works of art, this volume shares their stories. In doing so, it peels back the curtain on the inner workings of the mid-twentieth-century British art scene.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781913491871
Publisher: Unicorn Publishing Group
Publication date: 04/04/2022
Pages: 288
Product dimensions: 6.25(w) x 9.25(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

James Scott is the founder of the Arts Project at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital and a retired consultant orthopedic surgeon.

Table of Contents

Introduction Frances Spalding 7

1 Helen Sutherland Winifred Nicholson 11

2 Lucy Wertheim Nicolete Gray 30

3 Myfanwy Piper | Axis | Abstract and Concrete 51

4 Margaret Gardiner 71

5 Barbara Hepworth | Hampstead 83

6 Discovering Mondrian | Circle 103

7 Approaching War | Peggy Guggenheim 131

8 Other Female Gallerists 143

9 Cockley Moor | Hepworth in Cornwall 157

10 Wartime in Cornwall & London 167

11 Lilian Somerville | Overseas Operations 177

12 War Ends 189

13 Cornwall | Venice Biennales | Helen Lessore 207

14 Poetry & Orkney 233

15 Final Years 247

Afterword James Scott 267

Acknowledgements 270

Endnotes 271

Bibliography 279

Index 281

Picture Credits 287

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