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