Church, Katharine (‘Kitty’): Summer Flowers – SOLD

£1,350.00

A beautiful oil on canvas by this under-appreciated artist, a confident and substantial work with lovely fresh colours, a second image shows the painting framed.

More images can be provided on request.


Artist: Katharine Church, (British, 1910-1999), signed and dated ’58


Title and date: Summer Flowers, 1958


Size: 70 x 60 cms.


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Description

Artist description:

Katharine Church was a wonderful artist in oils and watercolour, and the quality of her work is only now being appreciated. She was born in Highgate, London and studied at Brighton School of Art from 1928-30; the Royal Academy Schools from 1930-33 and the Slade School from 1933-34. A friend of John Piper and Ivon Hitchens, she was influenced by both artists, especially in the fluid landscapes she was so fond of painting – and this connection may have overshadowed the value of her work. Connected with the Bloomsbury, Dorset and ‘Cranborne Chase’ groups, her first solo exhibition was at the Wertheim Gallery in 1933, and she showed at the Lefevre Gallery in the 1930s and ‘40s. She moved to Dorset in 1938, to a small farm at Tarrant Hinton – a painting of this home is included in the collection – then in 1964 to Sutton House near Wimborne, hidden in a deep wood with an idyllic cottage garden. She contributed to the ‘Figures in their Setting’ exhibition at the Tate Gallery in 1953 and exhibited throughout her life including with the London Group, the New English Art Club, the Women’s International Art Club, at the RA and the Royal Society of Portrait Painters. Examples of her work are held by the National Museum of Wales and the Government Art Collection.