Art Appreciation
Born on February 15, 1904, Mary Adshead was best known for her work as a muralist.
At a young age, she was taught watercolor painting by her architect father Stanley Davenport Adshead. When she was 16, she enrolled at the Slade School of Art in 1921.
In the 1930s, she held her first solo exhibition at the Goupil Gallery in France, illustrated children's books with her husband and was elected a member of the New English Art Club, an alternative venue to the Royal Academy.
In the 1940s and 1950s, she designed stamps for the English General Post Office, murals, film sets of Cleopatra, and organized the Society of Mural Painters.
The Puncture (1928)
A Tropical Fantasy: Charles Reilly's Dining Room Mural (1926)
The Cruise (1934)
Source: Wikipedia, artuk.org
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