Description
Original Pen & Ink drawing, 'French Village House', Muriel Archer (1911-2011)
Mounted ready for framing on soft white card and backing card with cellophane protective wrapping
Overall size of the mount measures approx. 10" x 12" (which means it will fit standard size picture frame). The visible picture opening is 7.75" x 5.75" Approx.
A really nice atmospheric drawing. Ready for you to frame.
About the Artist:
Born on June 25 1911 - she died just before her 100th birthday. She studied at Hornsey School of Art and it was while she was there she was offered the chance to occupy a studio in St Ives. It was the start of a lifelong relationship with the town. In the mid-1930s she married Ernest Friskney Archer, known as "Frisk", and lived with him at first in Chelsea where she had her own studio, and then Enfield, to 'The Laurels', which became the subject matter of many of her paintings.
She was a member of the Enfield Art Circle and eventually its president, and also began to teach life drawing. She was to bring some of her students to St Ives where they enjoyed the facilities offered by the St Ives School of Painting and where she knew Leonard Fuller, the school's founder, and his wife Marjorie Mostyn. After her husband died in 1972 "the pull of St Ives became too much" and she decided to move there permanently.