Oil Painting by Kate Nicholson
Oil Painting by Kate Nicholson
"Study in Lilac and Grey" by Kate Nicholson (English, 1929 - 2019).
Signed on the back.
Circa 1955.
Height: 84 cm / 33 inches
Width: 59 cm / 23.25 inches
Depth: 5 cm / 2 inches
£5,850
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Painter, especially of still lifes and flower pieces; teacher. Was born at Bankshead, Brampton, Cumberland, the only daughter of the artists Ben and Winifred Nicholson.
She attended Bath Academy of Art, 1949–54, after which she taught for two years at Totnes High School. She had visited Cornwall and in 1956 settled in St Ives.
Solo shows included Waddington Galleries, Marjorie Parr Gallery and LYC Museum and Art Gallery, Brampton, 1981. Arts Council holds her work.
Text source: 'Artists in Britain Since 1945' by David Buckman (Art Dictionaries Ltd, part of Sansom & Company).
