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'This charming memoir...provides that gentle feeling which commands real affection and interest...Highly enjoyable.' Royal Academy Magazine 'A fine addition to comprehensive art libraries.' Choice
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Mary Potter (1900-1981) is now recognized as one of the foremost British women painters of her time. The elusive colours, the fugitive shapes and textures in her pictures convey the ephemeral quality of the air and light of the spare coastal landscape around Aldeburgh. From the Beckenham School of Art and the Slade (which she left in 1921 having collected seven prizes), through her early involvement with the New English Art Club and the Seven and Five, this book traces her Continental wanderings and marriage to Stephen Potter in the 1920s, life in Chiswick in the 1930s, the war years and the burgeoning of her career after the move to Suffolk. Mary Potter did not align herself with any group or movement: she worked independently and unremittingly throughout her long life, attracting many loyal admirers of her work. Julian Potter's text carefully weaves together the story of her life and career, drawing on his own memories, talks with many of his mother's surviving friends, and the unpublished diaries of his father, Stephen Potter.
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With little space for a large subject: I'll start by saying that three of my favorite 20th century paintings appear in this book, together with many other fine works. Plate 10, "Golden Kipper" is an astonishingly graceful evocation of a humble but beautiful treasure from the sea. Plate 12, "Country Studio" has a charming balance of soft color and space. Plate 13, "Rising Moon" is a rich harmony of muted warm tones that bathe wall trees sky and misty moon: calm Romanticism at its best. The book's text is a splendidly well written rounded account of Mary Potter's life, family, times, and the artistic environments which shaped her remarkable genius. A great book for lovers of art and students of 20th century English life.
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Insightful Art History and Sensitive Biography
16 May 2004
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With little space for a large subject: I'll start by saying that three of my favorite 20th century paintings appear in this book, together with many other fine works. Plate 10, "Golden Kipper" is an astonishingly graceful evocation of a humble but beautiful treasure from the sea. Plate 12, "Country Studio" has a charming balance of soft color and space. Plate 13, "Rising Moon" is a rich harmony of muted warm tones that bathe wall trees sky and misty moon: calm Romanticism at its best. The book's text is a splendidly well written rounded account of Mary Potter's life, family, times, and the artistic environments which shaped her remarkable genius. A great book for lovers of art and students of 20th century English life.
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