The Beach at Ventnor

Location

Country: UK
City: England
Place: Wiston House, Foreign Office, Wilton Park

Born in West Hartlepool in 1923, Margaret Green studied at the Hartlepool School of Art before going to the Royal College of Art (1944–47) where she met her future husband Lionel Bulmer. Green taught at Walthamstow College of Art, taking up the role of Keeper of the Royal Academy Schools in the 1960s. Green was a regular exhibitor at the Royal Academy, but was never made a member, though she did become a member of the New English Art Club. She also showed regularly with the London Group, the Leicester Galleries and the New Grafton, where she had a solo show in 1972. Her work slipped briefly from public view, but her reputation was revived by a major joint retrospective which was held at Messum's Cork Street gallery in 2002.

Places

England, Ventnor, Isle of Wight, English Channel

Subjects

rowing boat, bathing, rest/sleep, swimming, topography, seascape/coastal scene, beach, boy, woman, flagpole, pier, hut, deckchair

Materials & Techniques

paper (as artists material), watercolour (as artists materials), watercolour (as object name)

Artist

Margaret Green (1925 - 2003)

Title

The Beach at Ventnor

Date

Medium

Watercolour on paper

Acquisition

Purchased from Leicester Galleries, September 1953

Provenance

Consigned by the artist to Leicester Galleries, London; from whom purchased by the Ministry of Works in August 1953

GAC number

2272