Rosa Hope
Tableau on Irene Post Office near Pretoria - 1940
Rosa Somerville Hope (8 June 1902, in
Camberwell School of Art
and her father was recorded as an agent.
Biography
Hope first went to a school in
Mark Rutherford, the novelist, lived in 1852. When she visited South Africa in 1935, her former teacher at the Slade School, Professor John Laviers Wheatley, offered her a teaching post at the Michaelis School of Fine Art at the University of Cape Town. She founded the school's printmaking and engraving department. In 1938 she accepted the post of Senior Lecturer in Fine Art at the University of Natal in Pietermaritzburg, where she remained until 1957. From here she made frequent painting trips to the Drakensberg and Transkei, occasionally accompanied by her friend and fellow painter, Phyllis McCarthy. The Centre for Visual Art at the University of Natal has been entrusted with a donation of her works. Rosa Hope designed the tile tableau of the Great Trek Centenary in the Irene
Post Office in 1939.
In January 1923 she was elected an Associate of the
Redfern Gallery, Old Bond Street and Messrs. P. and D. Colnaghi
at the Grosvenor Galleries. She was a member of the Society of Graphic Art, the Hampstead Society of Artists and the Print Collectors’ Club.
She exhibited with the South African Society of Artists (SASA) until 1942.
Gallery
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Gum trees, Pietermaritzburg area 1944 -
Cowshed at Glenaholm, Pietermaritzburg 1940s -
Orchard at Glenaholm, Pietermaritzburg 1945
References
- ISBN 978-0-9523247-1-3.
- Kokstad Advertiser - 11 May 1972
