Ada Swanwick

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Betty Swanwick
Born
Ada Elizabeth Edith Swanwick

22 May 1915
Central School of Arts and Crafts
Occupation(s)Artist and educator

Ada Elizabeth Edith Swanwick

Goldsmiths College and is known for her work for London Transport and an album cover for Genesis.[2]

Life

Ada Elizabeth Edith Swanwick was born in Forest Hill in

Scilly Isles.[4]

Swanwick enrolled at

Central School of Arts and Crafts. She was a student of Edward Bawden
. This academic activity continued until 1936.

Swanwick started to create work for London Transport in 1936 and she continued to create posters for them until 1954.[3][5]

In 1945 she published the first of her novels The Cross Purposes in 1945.[2] She published, Hoodwinked which featured pencil illustrations.[4] She appears as 'Bertha Swan' in a short story, "The Party", written by her fellow Goldsmiths student Denton Welch (in his posthumous collection A Last Sheaf (1951)).

In 1951 the Regatta and the Rocket restaurants at the

Evelina Children's Hospital in 1960.[2]

A painting by Swanwick titled The Dream was used on the cover of the 1973 Genesis album Selling England by the Pound.[7] The original painting did not include a lawn mower; the band had Swanwick add it later as an allusion to the track "I Know What I Like", because Swanwick told them she did not have enough time to paint a new picture for the cover.[7] Her drawings could take 200 hours to create and she had strong views. She was appalled to find that her students did not have to attend life drawing classes.[2]

Swanwick died in 1989. Her life and the intriguing paintings that she made after 1965 are included in the book by her friend Paddy Rossmore.[8]

Works include

  • The Cross Purposes (1945)
  • Hoodwinked (1957)
  • Beauty and the Burglar (1958)

References

  1. ^ "Royal Academy of Arts Collections - Person". www.racollection.org.uk. Retrieved 5 March 2017.
  2. ^ a b c d e Ada Sanwick, ODNB, Retrieved 6 October 2016
  3. ^ a b Betty Swanwick, London Transport Museum, Retrieved 5 October 2016
  4. ^ a b Art and artists, Royal Academy Collection, Retrieved 5 October 2016
  5. ISBN 978-1-871829-28-0
    .
  6. ^ Pleasure Dome, The Guardian, Retrieved 6 October 2016
  7. ^ a b Bowler & Dray 1992, p. 81.
  8. ISBN 978-1-905738-03-8
    .

Bibliography

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