Eve Kirk | |
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| Born | 22 July 1900 London, England |
| Died | 1969 (aged 68–69) Siena, Italy |
| Education | Slade School of Fine Art |
| Known for | Painting |
Eve Kirk (22 July 1900 - 1969) was a British landscape and decorative painter.
Eve Kirk | |
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| Born | 22 July 1900 London, England |
| Died | 1969 (aged 68–69) Siena, Italy |
| Education | Slade School of Fine Art |
| Known for | Painting |
Eve Kirk (22 July 1900 - 1969) was a British landscape and decorative painter.
Kirk was born in London on 22 July 1900. [1] She studied at the Slade School of Fine Art from 1919 to 1922, [2] and later travelled to France, Italy and Greece. [1] Her first solo exhibition was at the Paterson Gallery in 1930. [3] Augustus John - who later painted her portrait - wrote an introduction to the exhibition catalogue [4] in which he said:
Kirk later exhibited at Arthur Tooth & Sons, in 1932 and 1935, [7] [8] and alongside Paul Nash in 1939 [6] and at the Lefevre Gallery in 1949. [1] [3] [9]
During the Second World War, Kirk worked for civil defence in London, but continued to paint and held an exhibition in 1943 at the Leicester Galleries. [10] Her painting Bomb Damage in the City was shown as part of the exhibition of National War Pictures at the Royal Academy of Arts in 1945. [6] She was commissioned to decorate the Roman Catholic Church of God The Holy Ghost, Penygloddfa in Newtown, Powys, in the mid-1940s. [1] [11] [12] In the mid-1950s she emigrated to Italy and ceased to paint. [3] She died in Siena in 1969. [1]
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