Female Painters in Refiguring the 50s at Ben Uri gallery

Curator Sarah MacDougall explores the connections between the female painters whose works form part of the current exhibition, Refiguring the 50s - Joan Eardley, Sheila Fell and Eva Frankfurther.

Featured paintings:

Sheila Fell, Portrait of Ann Fell I, c.1955, Oil on canvas, Anna Fell
Image: © Estate of the Artist

Sheila Fell, Portrait of Clifford Rowan, c.1952, Oil on canvas, Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery Trust, Carlisle
Image: © Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery Trust, Carlisle

Sheila Fell, Dorothy Hodgkin (1910-1994), Fellow and Member of Council (1936), Professorial Fellow, Nobel Prize, OM, 1962, Oil on canvas, Somerville College, University of Oxford
Image: © Somerville College, University of Oxford

Joan Eardley, Little Girl with a Squint, Oil on canvas, Dumfriesshire Educational Trust, Gracefield Arts Centre, Dumfries
Image: © Dumfriesshire Educational Trust, Gracefield Arts Centre, Dumfries
© Estate of Joan Eardley. All Rights Reserved, DACS 2014

Eva Frankfurther, Woman with Two Children, Oil on paper, Private Collection
Image: © The Estate of Eva Frankfurther

Eva Frankfurther, Girl with a Teddy Bear, Oil on paper, Private Collection
Image: © The Estate of Eva Frankfurther

Eva Frankfurther, Portrait of a Woman, Oil on paper, Ben Uri, The London Jewish Museum of Art
Image: © The Estate of Eva Frankfurther

Music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34C4N...
Moondog, Prelude and Fugue in A Minor