Composition

Location

Country: UK
City: London
Place: Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, Whitehall

Sandra Blow was born in London and studied at St Martin’s School of Art in London from 1941 to 1946, and at the Royal Academy Painting School in 1947. The following year she studied in Rome and travelled with Alberto Burri. From 1949-50 she travelled in France and Spain. In 1951 she first exhibited at Gimpel Fils gallery in London who continued to exhibited her work throughout the 1950s and 1960s. From 1960 to 1975 Blow was a Visiting Tutor at Royal College of Art and became an Associate of the Royal Academy in 1971 and an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Art in 1983. In 1994 she had a retrospective exhibition at the Royal Academy followed by a retrospective at the Tate in 2001. She died aged 80 in 2006.

Places

Subjects

abstract

Materials & Techniques

canvas, oil, oil painting

Artist

Sandra Blow (1925 - 2006)

Title

Composition

Date

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

height: 137.00 cm, width: 122.00 cm

Acquisition

Purchased from the New Art Centre, June 1964

Inscription

none visible

GAC number

6510