Gwen John

The facts that she writes about art students, and that she attended the memorial service for art professor Henry Tonks on 15 January 1937, suggest that she may—like the somewhat younger Berta Ruck , Gwen John

GG 's love of books also expresses itself acquisitively. She says she is not really a collector, but admits: Some people read Cosmopolitan, but I read Christie's catalogues. She names as the most...

The Players performed dramas about generational gaps, marriage, career, prostitution, and representations of women. These included Laurence Housman 's Pains and Penalties, A Defence of Queen Caroline, Jess Dorynne 's The Surprise of His...

This short novel, with a large cast centred on a district in South London, vibrates with the tension between satire and sympathy. The title is ironic: the protagonist, Lyris Crane, is a painter too...

Since there were few Black women artists in the Tate collections, MS decided to focus on women artists in general. The exhibition included paintings by Gwen John and Vanessa Bell .

MF 's next novel, Keeping the World Away, blended a fictionalising of the historical record (the life of the artist and writer Gwen John ) with sketching a group of women: later owners of a John picture.

This book's epigraph comes from Gough Whitlam , Prime Minister of Australia, speaking about the creation of a healthy artistic climate. Greer's sketch of her efforts at rediscovery—rummaging through dusty art-gallery cellars for the...