Catherine Dawson Giles

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Catherine Dawson Giles
Born(1878-07-31)July 31, 1878
Lewisham, London, England
Died1955 (aged 7677)
Alma mater
  • Goldsmiths, University of London
  • Royal Academy Schools
StyleWatercolour
Movement Modernism

Catherine Dawson Giles (1878-1955) was a British modernist watercolour painter.

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Biography

Catherine Dawson Giles was born on July 31, 1878, in Lewisham in south-east London. [1] She attended Goldsmiths, University of London in New Cross in 1900 and later the Royal Academy Schools. [2] She studied with the American painter Max Bohm in Etaples, France, as part of the Etaples art colony. In 1904 she met the English painter and illustrator Jessica Dismorr, a fellow student at Etaples, with whom she became lifelong friends. [3] Dismorr, a member of the Vorticist movement, shared her home in the 1930s and painted her portrait. [4] [5]

During World War I Giles served as a Voluntary Aid Detachment nurse. [3] She traveled throughout Europe and Northern Africa during the 1920s and 30’s on painting trips and also painted many scenes of Etaples. [2] Giles exhibited with the New English Art Club in the 1920s and had a one-woman show of watercolours and gouaches at the Claridge Galleries. A Roman Catholic, Giles joined the Guild of Catholic Artists in 1929 and participated in their exhibitions alongside Glyn Philpot and Eric Gill in the 1930s. [3] [2]

The art of Dismorr and Giles was shown in a joint exhibition at the Fine Art Society, London, in 2000. [2] [5] Notable works by Giles include Village roofs, South of France a pencil and watercolour from 1930. [6]

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References

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1 artwork by or after Catherine Dawson Giles at the Art UK site