Ursula Tyrwhitt
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portraits, landscapes and a number of flower compositions Art Work
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Ursula Tyrwhitt |
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Female |
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British |
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1872 |
| Death: |
1966 |
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Quick Facts
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portraits, landscapes and a number of flower compositions |
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Watercolor |
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Painting
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Biography
Ursula Tyrwhitt's watercolor Flowers (1912) was given to the Tate Collection by Mary McEvoy, who had trained with her at the Slade. While she was a student, Tyrwhitt became a close friend of Gwen John, and John painted an early portrait of her, now lost. She travelled to Paris to work in the Atelier Colarossi and visit John, and later studied at the British School in Rome and again at the Slade.
In 1974 the Ashmolean Museum, in Tyrwhitt's home city of Oxford, held an exhibition Ursula Tyrwhitt: Oxford Painter and Collector. On show were her portraits, landscapes and a number of flower compositions, mainly in watercolor. There was also one sculpture, a terracotta bust of Gwen John, which Tyrwhitt had taken to Rodin to ask his advice. In addition, there was Tyrwhitt's own collection, works by Gwen and Augustus John, Walter Sickert, Stanley Spencer, Philip Wilson Steer, Margaret Fisher Prout and Ethel Walker, many of which were bequeathed to the Ashmolean
Tyrwhitt exhibited at the New English Art Club, becoming a member in 1913. The fact that women artists were in the minority at its exhibitions is reflected in a letter from Gwen John to her in 1908 (National Library of Wales): 'I hope our pictures will hang together!! I feel so lonely in the New English!' At the Special Retrospective Exhibition of the organization in 1924, the two Tyrwhitt flower pieces on show were lent by their owner, her old tutor at the Slade. Philip Wilson Steer, |
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