Edna Ginesi
(15 February 1902 - 2000) |
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Landscapes, still lifes, flowers Art Work
| Name: |
Edna Ginesi |
| Gender: |
Female |
| Place of Birth: |
Leeds, England |
| Nationality: |
British |
| Birth: |
15 February 1902 |
| Death: |
2000 |
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Quick Facts
| Known For: |
Landscapes, still lifes, flowers |
| Medium: |
Oil painting |
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| Style: |
Contemporary |
| Fine Art Profession(s): |
Painting
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Biography
Edna Ginesi was a painter of landscapes, still-lifes and flowers, and a stage designer. She trained at Leeds College of Art, where she met Barbara Hepworth, Henry Moore and Raymond Coxon, whom she was later to marry, and at the Royal College of Art from 1920-4. The award of a travel scholarship in 1924 allowed her to study in Europe. In her landscape paintings from this period, the emphatic brushstrokes which construct forms suggest that she had admired Cezanne's work on her travels, while in later work, such as Everglades (Tate 1964), her technique is more fluid and allusive.
From 1929 onwards Ginesi showed with the London Group, becoming a member in 1933. Her painting Thames-side (1962) was included in the exhibition celebrating fifty years of the London Group at the Tate Gallery in 1964. At her first individual exhibition, at Zwemmer's Gallery, London, in 1932, Ginesi showed a London scene, a view of Hammersmith Bridge, and among the works there were also landscapes in Yorkshire and the Lake District- At this time Ginesi was also designing decor for the Camargo Ballet. The turbulent events of the 1930s and 1940s interrupted her work. She went to Spain during the Civil War. and served as an ambulance driver during the Blitz. |
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