Elsie Marian Henderson
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Drawings of wild animals, Figurative images Art Work
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Elsie Marian Henderson |
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Female |
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British |
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1880 |
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1967 |
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Drawings of wild animals, Figurative images |
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Sculpture
Draughtsman
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Biography
In 1924 Elsie Henderson had her first solo exhibition at the Leicester Galleries. She exhibited drawings, lithographs and bronze sculptures of wild animals. The titles suggest that Henderson emphasized the savage aspect of nature.
Henderson's mother was an amateur painter and encouraged her daughter's ambitions, sending her to the Slade during the early 1900s, where she developed her fluid, fluent drawing style, and then to Paris. Henderson worked in various Parisian ateliers, among them Colarossi's. In the catalogue for a joint show with her close friend the animal painter Orovida Pissarro (held at the Michael Parkin Gallery. London, in 1985) she is quoted as describing the city as 'feverish - emotional... its color and warmth and freedom develops me like a hothouse plant - it is dangerous!' She also trained with Othon Friesz, and, back in London, with Ernest Jackson, who taught her lithography. It was around 1916 that Henderson began to focus exclusively on animals, drawing at Regent's Park Zoo. Tate owns two of her drawings, Three Studies of Leopards and A Tiger (both 1916). In 1917 she designed a much-admired poster advertising the Zoo for London Underground.
Henderson exhibited with the Women's International Art Club, the Royal Academy, and the Society of Women Artists. In the late 1920s she moved to Guernsey following her marriage to the French consul there, and kept detailed journals of the German occupation of the 1939-45 war, during which her husband died. She returned alone to England, painting into her old age. |
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