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Lucy Wertheim
Lucy Carrington Wertheim (''née'' Pearson; 4 April 1883, in Seedley, Pendleton,_Greater_Manchester, Pendleton, Lancashire – 1971, in Brighton) was an English gallery owner who founded the Twenties Group of "English artists in their twenties" in 1930 and was Christopher Wood (English painter), Christopher Wood's main patron before his death. Lucy Carrington Pearson married Mari Paul Johan Wertheim (1878–1952) in 1906. He was born in the Netherlands and became a British citizen in 1915. She, with her husband, ran galleries in London, Brighton and Derbyshire and was known for encouraging many young artists and sculptors. In the 1920s she bought many works by Henry Moore and encouraged Cedric Morris. In 1930 she opened her first gallery at 3-5 Burlington Gardens, Mayfair, London. It has been suggested that it was the artist Frances Hodgkins who finally persuaded or perhaps goaded Mrs Wertheim to move from enthusiastic supporter of 'modern art' to a fully fledged gallery owner ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seedley
Seedley is an inner city suburb of Salford, Greater Manchester, England. Governance Weaste & Seedley (ward), The electoral ward of Weaste & Seedley is represented in Parliament of the United Kingdom, Westminster by Rebecca Long-Bailey Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), MP for Salford (UK Parliament constituency), Salford. The ward is represented on Salford City Council by three Labour Party (UK), Labour councillors: Ronnie Wilson, Paul Wilson, and Stephen Hesling. Amenities Buile Hill Park is a large park in Seedley. History Seedley was previously part of the County Borough of Salford in the Administrative counties of England, administrative county of Lancashire. Housing and Regeneration The area is mostly made up of Terraced house, terraced housing, dating from the late 19th century and early 20th century. Seedley experienced long-term population decline in the 1990s with high levels of crime and poverty and empty in the area. Owners were unable to sell their hou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Stockley
Henry "Busdriver" Stockley (1892 – 1982) was an English primitive artist. Once called "the greatest inspired painter since William Blake", Henry Stockley was arguably the most important primitive artists active in the period 1930 to 1960. Alan Clutton-Brock, art critic of ''The Times'', was particularly impressed by his handling of figures and his ability "to give its proper atmosphere to a landscape and keep a number of curious and unexpected colours in harmony with each other".Alan Clutton, ''The Times'', 4 October 1932. Stockley's work suffered years of neglect partially reversed with the publication of a number of articles on his life and artistic production and with a major exhibition devoted to his life and art at the London Transport Museum (July 1996 to March 1997). The location is significant. Although trained as a meat inspector, for many years Henry Stockley was a bus driver. Early life Henry Stockley was born in 1892 at 10 Willow Terrace, Eynsford, Kent, the thi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1971 Deaths
* The year 1971 had three partial solar eclipses (Solar eclipse of February 25, 1971, February 25, Solar eclipse of July 22, 1971, July 22 and Solar eclipse of August 20, 1971, August 20) and two total lunar eclipses (February 1971 lunar eclipse, February 10, and August 1971 lunar eclipse, August 6). The world population increased by 2.1% this year, the highest increase in history. Events January * January 2 – 1971 Ibrox disaster: During a crush, 66 people are killed and over 200 injured in Glasgow, Scotland. * January 5 – The first ever One Day International cricket match is played between Australia and England at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. * January 8 – Tupamaros kidnap Geoffrey Jackson, British ambassador to Uruguay, in Montevideo, keeping him captive until September. * January 9 – Uruguayan president Jorge Pacheco Areco demands emergency powers for 90 days due to kidnappings, and receives them the next day. * January 12 – The landmark United States televis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1883 Births
Events January * January 4 – ''Life (magazine), Life'' magazine is founded in Los Angeles, California, United States. * January 10 – A Newhall House Hotel Fire, fire at the Newhall Hotel in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States, kills 73 people. * January 16 – The Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act, establishing the United States civil service, is passed. * January 19 – The first electric lighting system employing overhead wires begins service in Roselle, New Jersey, United States, installed by Thomas Edison. February * February 15 – Tokyo Electrical Lightning Grid, predecessor of Tokyo Electrical Power (TEPCO), one of the largest electrical grids in Asia and the world, is founded in Japan. * February 16 – The ''Ladies' Home Journal'' is published for the first time, in the United States. * February 23 – Alabama becomes the first U.S. state to enact an Competition law, antitrust law. * February 28 – The first vaudeville th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Henry Pearson
William Henry Pearson (1849–1923) was an English bryologist, known as an outstanding expert on British liverworts (hepatics). After secondary education, William Henry Pearson was employed by a Manchester company of yarn agents. After some years, he went into business for himself in the yarn trade. When he was in his late thirties and early forties, he lived in Eccles, Greater Manchester. There he became a friend of Benjamin Carrington and studied botany in some of the classes taught by Carrington. Richard Spruce encouraged Pearson to specialise in bryology. With Benjamin Carrington he issued an exsiccata series under the title ''Hepaticae Britannicae exsiccatae'' (1878–1890). Pearson studied not only the British hepatics, but also those of Australia, New Zealand, and Canada. He published articles in the ''Journal of Botany'', ''The Naturalist'', and ''The Rucksack Club Journal''. He was a member of several natural history societies (including the Rucksack Club) and the Manch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kathleen Walne
Kathleen Walne (3 October 1915 – 30 June 2011) was a British artist notable for her colourful style of watercolour painting. Biography Walne was born in Ipswich, the fourth of seven children to Ruby and Herbert Walne. After a childhood marred by illness and long absences from school, Walne entered the Ipswich Art School on a £1 a week scholarship in 1930. Originally assigned to the design school she soon joined the painting class where she met her future husband, Frank Ward. In 1933 Ward moved to London to study at the Royal College of Art. He also promoted Walne's works by taking examples to show West End galleries and dealers. After numerous refusals and rejections, Lucy Wertheim, the owner of the Wertheim Gallery, agreed to act on Walne's behalf. This was the start of a lifelong friendship between the two. Wertheim gave Walne a solo show in 1935 and for a time she worked at the gallery as a general help. Also in 1935, works by Walne were included in a show of contempor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Gommon
David Gommon (12 December 1913 – 20 January 1987) was a British painter born in Battersea, South London. Early life and education David Gommon was born on 12 December 1913 in Battersea in South London. His father was a Londoner, a journeyman carpenter. At the age of 16 he was enrolled in Battersea Polytechnic and the Clapham School of Art. He was able to visit art galleries of the Netherlands to study the paintings of the great masters. He met art collector, Lucy Carrington Wertheim and, when he was 18-19, she became his patron paying £2 a week for his work. Career It was through Lucy Wertheim that he held his first one-man show at her gallery in Burlington Gardens, and attracted positive critical attention. During this time he met many other patrons of the arts, and he painted the young dancer's Margot Fonteyn and Robert Helpmann at Saddlers Wells. He was part of the 20s group supported by Lucy Wertheim that included Christopher Wood, Barbara Hepworth, Roger ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth Rivers
Elizabeth Joyce Rivers (5 August 1903 – 20 July 1964) was an English painter, engraver, illustrator and author, based in Ireland for most of her life. Life Born in Sawbridgeworth, Hertfordshire in England on 5 August 1903, she was a member of the family of Thomas Rivers (nurseryman). Rivers was educated at Goldsmiths' College, London where she worked under Edmund J. Sullivan. In 1926 she won a scholarship to the Royal Academy Schools, where she continued her training under Walter Sickert, winning several prizes. In 1929 she entered for the Prix de Rome at the British School at Rome, and was exhibited at the Imperial Institute, in London, in 1930. She moved to Paris in 1931 to continue her art education at the École de fresques (of the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris) with André Lhote and Gino Severini. By 1932 she was considered part of the 'Twenties Group´ and had exhibition work shown in the Wertheim Gallery in London. In 1935 she made her first v ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alfred Wallis
Alfred Wallis (18 August 1855 – 29 August 1942) was a British artist and fisherman, known for his port landscapes and shipping scenes painted in a naïve style. Having no artistic training, he began painting at the age of 70, using household paint on scraps of cardboard. He achieved little commercial success, although his work was championed by progressive artists such as Ben Nicholson and Christopher Wood. Life and work Alfred's parents, Charles and Jane Wallis, were from Penzance in Cornwall, and moved to Devonport, Plymouth, in 1850, to find work. Alfred and his brother Charles were born in Devonport. Later, when Jane Wallis died, the family returned to Penzance. Upon leaving school, Alfred was apprenticed to a basketmaker before becoming a mariner in the merchant service by the early 1870s. He sailed on schooners across the North Atlantic between Penzance and Newfoundland. Wallis married Susan Ward in St Mary's Church, Penzance, in 1876, when he was 20 and his wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Feliks Topolski
Feliks Topolski Royal Academician, RA (14 August 1907 – 24 August 1989) was a Polish expressionist painter and draughtsman working primarily in the United Kingdom. Biography Feliks Topolski was born on 14 August 1907 in Warsaw, Poland. He studied in the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, and trained as an artillery officer. Later he studied and worked in Italy and France, and eventually he moved to Britain in 1935 after being commissioned to record King George V's silver jubilee. He opened a studio near London Waterloo railway station, Waterloo station, which later became an exhibition and then a café-bar featuring his art. He married twice, first to Marian Everall and then Caryl J. Stanley. In 1939 the George Bernard Shaw plays ''In Good King Charles's Golden Days'' and ''Geneva'' were published with illustrations by Topolski, bringing his work to a wider audience in the UK. During the Second World War, Topolski became an official war artist and painted scenes of the Battle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Melville
John William Melville (25 August 1902 – 8 December 1986) was a self-taught British Surrealism, Surrealist painter. He is described by Michel Remy in his book ''Surrealism in Britain'' as one of the "harbingers of surrealism" in Great Britain. He was, along with his art critic brother Robert Melville (art critic), Robert Melville and the artist Conroy Maddox, a key member of the Birmingham Surrealists from the 1930s to the 1950s. His choice of subjects as a painter was wide; he painted figures, portraits, still-life and landscapes. He painted in oil and watercolor. He was self-taught. He was attracted to Surrealism in 1930 and as a member of the Birmingham Group, joined the Surrealist Group in 1938. He was a contributor to the London Bulletin in 1939, and to Arson in 1942. John had his debut exhibition in London at the Wertheim Gallery in 1932. He continued to exhibit in other venues in London and throughout the UK. His work is represented in a number of private and public c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Basil Rakoczi
Basil Ivan Rákóczi (31 May 1908 – 21 March 1979) was an English artist born in London. He was a leading member of the Irish art group, the White Stag, along with Kenneth Hall. Biography Rákóczi was born on 31 May 1908 in Chelsea to Charlotte May Dobby and Ivan Rákóczi. His memories of his father relied mostly on fond reminiscences from his mother. Throughout his life he was proud of both his Irish heritage from his mother's side and his Hungarian heritage from his father's. He also held high regard for gypsy practices as his parents had been married in accordance to gypsy rites. Later in his life, he also rediscovered his Celtic roots. Autobiography Basil Rakoczi also wrote an autobiography that details his life in an imaginative but frank and honest way. There are currently no planned publications of this autobiography though an official biography is rumoured to being worked upon. Style His style varies greatly as he believed to explore psychological aspects of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
