Sine MacKinnon (11 February 1901 – 1996) was an

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landscape artist.

Early life

Selina Mairi Sine MacKinnon was born in

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to Ranuld Edmund Eliot MacKinnon of Binfield, Surrey and Clementina Alicia née D'Arcy. Her father was a clerk in the law courts in London. She was educated in the

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in London between 1918 and 1924. Her mentor was

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. Her portrait was painted by a fellow student

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in 1922.

Work

MacKinnon exhibited twice in Paris in the 1920s and then in the

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in London in 1928. It was about this time she met her future husband Rupert Granville Fordham. She exhibited 29 paintings at the

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in London in 1929. Mackinnon had a daughter, Jan Fordham, born in August 1935. The

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Gallery purchased her painting, ''Farm Buildings in Provence'' (1934) in 1940. By 1949 she had works in the

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, two works in the Tate Gallery and paintings in the

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, Paris,

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, Brighton and Manchester City Galleries. She had exhibited in the

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, the London Group, the Royal Academy, the Salon d'Automne, the Lefevre Gallery, the Redfern Gallery and Arthur Tooth & Sons Gallery. Her work was critiqued by

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. When her husband was ill, MacKinnon reduced her painting. He died in 1974. After that she began to show in exhibitions again. She was a member of the French women artists group « ». Mackinnon died in Paris in 1996.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:MacKinnon, Sine 1901 births 1996 deaths 20th-century Irish painters 20th-century Irish women artists Alumni of the Slade School of Fine Art Irish women painters Artists from County Down People from Newcastle, County Down Irish landscape painters 20th-century women painters