Frances Mary Hodgkins
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Art Work
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Frances Mary Hodgkins |
| Gender: |
Female |
| Place of Birth: |
Dunedin, New Zealand |
| Nationality: |
New Zealand |
| Birth: |
1869 |
| Death: |
1947 |
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Quick Facts
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Oil, watercolor, pencil |
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Abstraction, Impressionism |
| Fine Art Profession(s): |
Painter
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Biography
As a child Frances Mary Hodgkins attended Braemar House, a private girls' secondary school, later incorporated into Columba College. She first exhibited in 1890, although she felt overshadowed by her sister, Isobel. In 1893 she became a student of Girolamo Nerli who inspired her first successes. It has been suggested this is where she first met Dorothy Kate Richmond (1860-1935). In 1895-96 she attended the Dunedin School of Art.
In 1901 she left New Zealand for Europe travelling to England but also visiting France, the Netherlands, Italy and Morocco in the company of Richmond whom she described as "the dearest woman with the most beautiful face and expression. I am a lucky beggar to have her as a travelling companion." She returned and established a studio in Wellington where she held a joint exhibition with Richmond in 1904. Among her pupils then was Edith Kate Bendall, lesbian lover of Katherine Mansfield. In the same year Hodgkins became engaged to an Englishman, T. Boughton Wilby, after the briefest of courtships and planned to go overseas to marry him. The engagement was broken off at the last moment for unknown reasons. Dissatisfied with teaching in New Zealand Hodgkins returned to London in 1906.
Her first solo show was in London in 1907. In 1911-12 she taught at Colarossi's academy in Paris. |
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