Catherine Dawson Giles (1878-1955) was a British modernist watercolour painter.
Catherine Dawson Giles | |
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| Born | July 31, 1878 Lewisham, London, England |
| Died | 1955 (aged 76–77) |
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| Style | Watercolour |
| Movement | Modernism |
Biography edit
Catherine Dawson Giles was born on July 31, 1878, in Lewisham in south-east London.[1] She attended Goldsmiths, University of London in New Cross in 1900 and later the Royal Academy Schools.[2] She studied with the American painter Max Bohm in Etaples, France, as part of the Etaples art colony. In 1904 she met the English painter and illustrator Jessica Dismorr, a fellow student at Etaples, with whom she became lifelong friends.[3] Dismorr, a member of the Vorticist movement, shared her home in the 1930s and painted her portrait.[4][5]
During World War I Giles served as a Voluntary Aid Detachment nurse.[3] She traveled throughout Europe and Northern Africa during the 1920s and 30’s on painting trips and also painted many scenes of Etaples.[2] Giles exhibited with the New English Art Club in the 1920s and had a one-woman show of watercolours and gouaches at the Claridge Galleries. A Roman Catholic, Giles joined the Guild of Catholic Artists in 1929 and participated in their exhibitions alongside Glyn Philpot and Eric Gill in the 1930s.[3][2]
The art of Dismorr and Giles was shown in a joint exhibition at the Fine Art Society, London, in 2000.[2][5] Notable works by Giles include Village roofs, South of France a pencil and watercolour from 1930.[6]
References edit
- ^ "GILES Catherine Dawson 1878-1955". www.artbiogs.co.uk. Retrieved 30 November 2017.
- ^ a b c d "Catherine Dawson Giles, British 1878-1955, Modernist, 4 paintings". Worthpoint. Retrieved 30 November 2017.
- ^ a b c Carolyn Trant (2019). Voyaging Out: British Women Artists from Suffrage to the Sixties. Thames & Hudson. ISBN 9780500021828.
- ^ "Jessica Dismorr - Artists - Art Fortune". www.artfortune.com. Retrieved 30 November 2017.
- ^ a b Alicia Foster (2004). Tate Women Artists. Tate Publishing. ISBN 1-85437-311-0.
- ^ "Twentieth Century Watercolours and Drawings 2011". www.abbottandholder-thelist.co.uk. Retrieved 30 November 2017.
External links edit
1 artwork by or after Catherine Dawson Giles at the Art UK site