Kaff Gerrard
(1894 - 1970) |
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pottery, landscapes, portraiture Art Work
| Name: |
Kaff Gerrard |
| Gender: |
Female |
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| Nationality: |
British |
| Birth: |
1894 |
| Death: |
1970 |
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Quick Facts
| Known For: |
pottery, landscapes, portraiture |
| Medium: |
oil painting |
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oil painting |
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| Fine Art Profession(s): |
Sculptor
Painter
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Biography
| During her long, dedicated career as an artist and potter, Kaff Gerrard had only one significant exhibition, a joint show at Colnaghi's in 1931, shared with her sculptor husband, a Slade professor, at which she showed her ceramics. While she was at the Slade during the early 1920s Gerrard was a star pupil, winning a number of awards, including prizes for painting from the cast and for portraiture. Although she had focused on city scenes and still life when she was a student, Gerrard began to paint landscape. Her work was in tune with that of Paul Nash and her Slade contemporary Graham Sutherland, and she was strongly influenced by the revival of interest in Samuel Palmer during the late 1920s. Gerrard painted Sussex and the South Downs. She portrayed the impact of the 1939-45 war, the countryside punctuated by twisted metal and scarred by bomb craters. Gerrards husband was a war artist, but her own work was not acquired by the Imperial War Museum until the 1990s (the museum now owns three of her paintings). Her work became increasingly symbolic of the landscape and the natural forms. |
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