The Marsh II

Location

Country: UK
City: London
Place: Government Art Collection

Born in Beckenham, Kent, Mary Potter studied at the local art school. She studied at the Slade School of Art (1918–20) and exhibited with the 7 and 5 Society. Having painted portraits, after 1924, she focused on still life and landscapes. Living in Chiswick in the 1930s, she raised her family and had solo exhibitions. She briefly left London during the War. In 1951, Potter moved to Aldeburgh, Suffolk, and met musicians, Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears. A retrospective was held in London (Whitechapel, 1964) followed by other solo and group shows. Potter’s 80th birthday was celebrated with a Tate exhibition (1980) and a Serpentine Gallery exhibition (1981). She won a John Moores Liverpool Exhibition prize shortly before her death in 1981.

Places

Subjects

landscape C20th, grass, moon, marsh, marshland

Materials & Techniques

canvas, oil, oil painting

Artist

Mary Potter (1900 - 1981)

Title

The Marsh II

Date

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

height: 41.00 cm, width: 51.00 cm

Acquisition

Purchased from Leicester Galleries, May 1958

Inscription

verso (top stretcher bar) :The Marsh II

Provenance

Collection of ‘J. de Vere Hunt’; from whom purchased by the Leicester Galleries, London; from whom purchased by the Ministry of Works in May 1958

GAC number

4618