Helen Saunders
Helen Saunders | |
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Born | 4 April 1885 Bedford Park, Ealing, London, England |
Died | 1 January 1963 Holborn, London, England | (aged 77)
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Known for | Painting |
Helen Saunders (4 April 1885 – 1 January 1963) was an English painter associated with the Vorticist movement.
Biography
Helen Saunders (pronounced Saːnders) was born in Bedford Park, Ealing, London.
Saunders exhibited in the Twentieth Century Art exhibition at the
Saunders exhibited with the
In 1996 Richard Cork wrote:
- "Since Saunders' early work earned her a respected place in experimental circles, the gathering obscurity of her later years seems cruel. She endured the neglect with uncomplaining stoicism, for her innate warmth prevented her from succumbing to bitterness."
In 2022, her painting Atlantic City known from a photograph in BLAST, was found beneath the painting Praxitella by Wyndham Lewis.[7]
Notable works
- Abstract Multicoloured Design, c.1915. Gouache, watercolour and graphite on paper. Tate.[1]
- Monochrome Abstract Composition, c.1915. Ink, watercolour and graphite on paper. Tate.[2]
Exhibition History
- Drawings Gallery Display - Helen Saunders, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 14/10/2022-29/01/2023[8]
- Women in Abstraction, Centre-Pompidou, Paris, 05/05/2021-23/08/2021[9]
- Blast to Freeze, Les Abattoirs, Toulouse, France, 24/02/2003-11/05/2003[10]
- Modern Art in Britain 1910-1914, Barbican Art Gallery, London, 20/02/1997-26/05/1997[11]
- Helen Saunders (1885-1963), Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 09/01/1996-03/03/1996; Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield, 16/03/1996-20/04/1996
- Vorticism and its allies, Hayward Gallery, London, 27/03/1974-02/06/1974[12]
See also
References
- ^ Peppin, Brigid. 'Helen Saunders, 1885–1963', Ashmolean Museum Oxford, 1996
- ^ Pepin, Brigid (1996). Helen Saunders 1885–1963. Dagenham: Lipscomb Printers. p. 6.
- ^ ISBN 9780500021828.
- ^ "Helen Saunders: forging her own path | Art UK". artuk.org. Retrieved 19 January 2023.
- ISBN 978-178023-374-1.
- ^ Nasher Museum Archived 7 March 2013 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved 17 September 2010
- ^ "'Fit of pique': lost vorticist masterpiece found under portrait by contemporary". the Guardian. 21 August 2022. Retrieved 21 August 2022.
- ^ "Vorticist composition, blue and green | The Courtauld Gallery Collection Online". gallerycollections.courtauld.ac.uk. Retrieved 4 March 2024.
- ^ "Women in Abstraction". Centre Pompidou. 19 July 2021. Retrieved 4 March 2024.
- ISBN 978-3-7757-1248-4.
- ^ "Modern Art in Britain 1910-1914 | Barbican". www.barbican.org.uk. 20 February 1997. Retrieved 4 March 2024.
- ISBN 978-0-7287-0034-5.
External links
- 21 artworks by or after Helen Saunders at the Art UK site
- Richard Cork, "Vorticists (act. 1914–1919)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 2 July 2007
- Helen Saunders, Works in Tate Gallery collection
- Helen Saunders, Works at the Courtauld Institute