Eleanor Joan Ellis (1904–1989) was a British artist known for her paintings and wood engravings.

Biography

Ellis was born in

Putney Putney () is an affluent district in southwest London, England, in the London Borough of Wandsworth, southwest of Charing Cross. The area is identified in the London Plan as one of 35 major centres in Greater London. History Putney is an ...

in London and attended school in

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before, from 1923 to 1925, studying at Brook Green, the art school set up and run by

Leon Underwood George Claude Leon Underwood (25 December 1890 – 9 October 1975) was a British artist, although primarily known as a sculptor, printmaker and painter, he was also an influential teacher and promotor of African art. His travels in Mexico a ...

. Throughout her career, Ellis created wood engravings and painted in both oils and watercolour. She exhibited regularly with the English Wood Engraving Society, with the

New English Art Club The New English Art Club (NEAC) is a society for contemporary artists that was founded in London, England, in 1886 as an alternative venue to the Royal Academy. The NEAC holds an annual exhibition of paintings and drawings at the Mall Galleries ...

, the

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and, in 1927, with the

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. She also had solo exhibitions at both the

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and the Gieves Art Gallery. During the 1930s Ellis spent some time in St Ives and was elected a member of the St Ives Society of Artists. Several of her woodcut designs were reproduced in '' The Studio'' magazine.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Ellis, Eleanor Joan 1904 births 1989 deaths 20th-century English painters 20th-century English women artists Artists from the London Borough of Wandsworth English women painters People from Putney 20th-century British women painters