Clare Atwood
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Portraiture, Landscapes, Still-lifes Art Work
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Clare Atwood |
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Female |
| Place of Birth: |
England |
| Nationality: |
British |
| Birth: |
1866 |
| Death: |
1962 |
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Quick Facts
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Portraiture, Landscapes, Still-lifes |
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Oil on canvas |
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| Fine Art Profession(s): |
Painter
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Biography
Atwood trained at the Westminster School of Art and the Slade, showing her work at the Society of Women Artists, the Royal Academy, and internationally. Atwood exhibited most frequently at the New English Art Club, and became a member in 1912. Her Interior of the Coach- Wheelwrights Shop at 41 Marshall Street, Soho, exhibited at the NEAC in 1897, is now in the Museum of London. Her solo exhibition at the Carfax Gallery in 1911 included the London scenes Billingsgate Market and Costers, Covent Garden, and paintings of theatrical life such as Rehearsal Drury lane: The Rose-colored Box.
Her choice of subject matter and technique suggests that Atwood should be at home in the company of the Camden Town Group, and Sickert, who may have taught her at Westminster School of Art. But as women were forbidden membership, painters such as Atwood remain relatively unknown in comparison with their Camden Town contemporaries. The different position of women also shaped her war work. Atwood was commissioned by the Women's Work Sub-Committee to paint service women for the Imperial War Museum She completed three works, and donated a further painting to the Ellen Terry. Christmas Day in the London Bridge YMCA Canteen (1920), in which Ellen Terry hands out food in a dining hall crowded with Belgian refugees.
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