Church, Katharine (‘Kitty’): A Life in Colour – SOLD
£30.00
This is the only biography of one of our favourite artists, Katharine Church, and was written by her former agent John Duncalfe and published in 2015. This substantial 288 page hardback book combines text with photographs and 200 colour illustrations to profile the life and work of this Dorset and Bloomsbury painter, widely connected with the romantic artists of the pre and post-war years.
The paintings illustrated are currently in stock.
More images can be provided on request.
Artist: Katharine Church, (British, 1910-1999).
Title and date: John Duncalfe, (2015), Katharine Church: A Life in Colour. The Later Years, Tillington Press
Size: 24 x 30 cms.
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Description
Artist description:
Katharine Church was a wonderful artist in oils and watercolour, and the quality of her work is only now being appreciated. She was born in Highgate, London and studied at Brighton School of Art from 1928-30; the Royal Academy Schools from 1930-33 and the Slade School from 1933-34. A friend of John Piper and Ivon Hitchens, she was influenced by both artists, especially in the fluid landscapes she was so fond of painting – and this connection may have overshadowed the value of her work.
Connected with the Bloomsbury, Dorset and ‘Cranborne Chase’ groups, her first solo exhibition was at the Wertheim Gallery in 1933, and she showed at the Lefevre Gallery in the 1930s and ‘40s. She moved to Dorset in 1938, to a small farm at Tarrant Hinton – a painting of this home is included in the collection – then in 1964 to Sutton House near Wimborne, hidden in a deep wood with an idyllic cottage garden.
She contributed to the ‘Figures in their Setting’ exhibition at the Tate Gallery in 1953 and exhibited throughout her life including with the London Group, the New English Art Club, the Women’s International Art Club, at the RA and the Royal Society of Portrait Painters. Examples of her work are held by the National Museum of Wales and the Government Art Collection.