Nancy Nicholson
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Born | Annie Mary Pryde Nicholson 1899 Woodstock, Oxfordshire, England[1] |
Died | 1977 (aged 77–78) |
Known for | Fabric design |
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Children | 4 |
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Annie "Nancy" Mary Pryde Nicholson (1899–1977) was an English painter and fabric designer.
Early life
Born Annie Mary Pryde Nicholson, she was the only daughter of the artists
Robert Graves
Nancy married the poet
A lifelong feminist, Nancy used to cycle to Oxfordshire villages and set up a stall to explain to women how to use
Publishing and textile design
After a period in the early 1930s living with Geoffrey Taylor[6] on a houseboat moored in Hammersmith, Nancy set up the Poulk Press,[7] in which she collaborated for a time with him. They lived near Sutton Veny, Wiltshire, in a timber house designed by Nancy and built with family labour.[8] Her relationship with Taylor lasted five years.[9] She worked at this period with her brother Ben and his wife Barbara Hepworth on textiles.
Undeterred by the failure of the Boars Hill shop, in the 1940s she ran a business in Motcomb Street, London. Her designs influenced her sister-in-law EQ Nicholson.[10] Her work was exhibited at the Victoria and Albert Museum in 1976.
Notes
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- ^ "Search Results for England & Wales Deaths 1837–2007". www.findmypast.co.uk.
- ^ "The Lightbox Blog – Latest Entries". Archived from the original on 9 May 2011. Retrieved 22 May 2011.
- ^ Deborah Barker, In Extremis: The Life of Laura Riding (1993), p. 95.
- ^ "booksfactory.com is available to buy | GoDaddy Auctions". www.godaddy.com.
- ^ "Ricorso: Digital materials for the study and appreciation of Anglo-Irish Literature". www.ricorso.net.
- ^ Lesley Jackson, 20th Century Pattern Design: Textile & Wallpaper Pioneers (2002), p. 70.
- ^ Terence Brown, Ireland's Literature: Selected Essays (1988), p. 144.
- ^ Barker, p. 213.
- ^ The Nicholsons: A Story of Four People and their Designs, p. 56.