Margaret Traherne

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Margaret Traherne
Born
Hazel Wilkes

(1919-11-23)23 November 1919
Westcliff-on-Sea, England
Died30 June 2006(2006-06-30) (aged 86)
Brighton, England
Known forStained glass windows
A stained glass window designed by Traherne in 1978 for Chailey Church. It is located in the North Chancel. Chailey stained glass 2.jpg
A stained glass window designed by Traherne in 1978 for Chailey Church. It is located in the North Chancel.
Stained glass window design by Margaret Traherne. Nottingham, St Peter's church, Stained glass window (20413557633).jpg
Stained glass window design by Margaret Traherne.

Margaret Traherne (23 November 1919 — 30 June 2006) [1] was an Essex-born artist active in the twentieth century. [2] She was regarded as a leading artist of her generation. [3] Noted for her stained glass designs, she also worked in sculpture as well as embroidered textiles and mixed media, examples of which are held in the Victoria and Albert Museum. [4] [5]

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Early life

Born in Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex, Traherne moved with her family to Long Island, New York in 1925, aged six. [1] She later attended Southend High School after returning from eight years spent in New York. [6]

Education

Traherne attended Croydon School of Art from 1936, where she studied under Ruskin Spear. It was here that she met her future husband, David Thomas, and the pair married in 1943. [3] Traherne joined the Kingston School of Art during the Second World War, before joining the Design School at the Royal College of Art in 1945. [1] In 1953-54 she spent a year of experimentation at the Central School of Arts and Crafts in the stained glass department run John Baker and Tom Fairs. [1] [3]

Stained glass windows

Margaret Traherne's designs for stained glass appear across England, including the examples below,

Works in public collections

A range of works by Margaret Traherne are held in public British collections, including the following,

TitleYearMediumGallery no.GalleryLocation
Cope 1950swool with appliquéd embroidery, padded, silk threadCIRC.302-1961 Victoria and Albert Museum London
Fret 1956jacquard-woven fabricCIRC.680-1956 Victoria and Albert Museum London
Fret 1956jacquard-woven fabricCIRC.680A-1956 Victoria and Albert Museum London
Fret 1956jacquard-woven fabricCIRC.680B-1956 Victoria and Albert Museum London
Light Box1974glass & acrylic plasticAH01527/75 Abbot Hall Art Gallery Cumbria, England
Light Box1974glass & acrylic plasticAH01528/75 Abbot Hall Art Gallery Cumbria, England
Light Box-glass & perspexL.F461.1976.0.0 New Walk Museum & Art Gallery Leicestershire, England
Poppy head on a blue ground 1980watercolourP.15-1981 Victoria and Albert Museum London
Standing Stones c.1959moulded concrete008 Loughborough University Leicestershire, England
Yellow Nude Collage 1974gouache & cut paper collageP.16-1981 Victoria and Albert Museum London

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