Elizabeth Sorrell
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dolls, landscapes, flowers and natural forms Art Work
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Elizabeth Sorrell |
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1916 |
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1991 |
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dolls, landscapes, flowers and natural forms |
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Painting
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Biography
Elizabeth Tanner studied at Eastbourne College of Art in the 1930s, and in the design department of the Royal College of Art, where she trained in mural painting under Professor Ernest Tristram, an expert in medieval art, and won a travel scholarship. Following her graduation she taught in art colleges and worked as a designer of fabrics and wallpapers. She exhibited at the Royal Academy from the late 1940s, the New English Art Club, and with the Royal Society of Painters in Watercolors, becoming a member in 1966.
During the Second World War she spent some time in the Lake District. Her watercolor Troops in Ambteside (1941) is in the collection of the Wordsworth Trust Museum, Grasmere. It shows in vivid detail a bird's-eye view of a line of troops snaking through the small town, accompanied by a truck full of waving nurses. The Tate Collection's watercolor Ferns in the Conservatory was made in the year the war ended.
Marriage to the historical illustrator Alan Sorrell in 1947 rekindled her interest in medieval art, and the decorative intricacy of her figurative drawings and watercolors reflected her knowledge of this field. She often drew and painted dolls, landscapes, flowers and natural forms. Her spiky, tangled Basket of Seed Pods is in the collection of the Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston. The Sorrells held a joint retrospective at Chelmsford Art Gallery in 1975. |
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