"Dolphin Inn, Plymouth The Dolphin Hotel is a pub on the Barbican in Plymouth, England. The building, which is known as either the Dolphin Inn or Dolphin Hotel, is a Grade II listed building. It notable as the setting of several of the artist Beryl Cook's paintings. The three storey building was constructed in the early 19th century, although it may contain fabric from an earlier structure. It has a slate mansard roof surrounded by a tall parapet with a moulded cornice. The front has white stucco with plaster reliefs of dolphins. The pub is associated with the Tolpuddle Martyrs,"
"William Charles May William Charles May (16 March 1853. - 28 December 1931) was an English sculptor and painter active from about 1870 to 1931. He was regarded as a distinguished portrait sculptor. He studied at the Royal Academy School. His most famous works include his contribution to the Armada Memorial sculpture on Plymouth Hoe, a bust of king George V and painted portraits of Mr. Edmund Yates and Sarah Bernhardt. W. C. May was born in Chain Street, Reading, Berkshire, England in 1853, son of a butcher William May and Mary Ann May (nee Ball). It is said that"
"on the Isle of Wight and in 1993 they moved to Yarmouth, where Green was a member of the Yarmouth Women's Institute. Pamela Green died from leukaemia, aged 81, on the Isle of Wight on 7 May 2010. Pamela Green Phyllis Pamela Green (28 March 1929 – 7 May 2010) was an English glamour model and actress, best known at the end of the 1950s and early 1960s. She modeled for Zoltán Glass and his brother Stephen Glass, Horace Roye, Jean Straker, Bill Brandt, Joan Craven, Bertram Park, George Pickow, and John Everard. Born in Kingston upon Thames, Surrey, England"
"and several members of the Coronation Street cast. Some of her most famous painting were published as limited editions and some brought together with her original text, in illustrated books ""When Steak Was A Shilling A Pound"" and ""In Great Great Grandmother's Day"". Margaret Chapman Margaret Chapman née Duxbury (18 November 1940 – 28 July 2000) was an English illustrator and painter. Born in Darwen, Lancashire, her skill at painting was obvious from an early age and she studied at Liverpool College of Art alongside Stuart Sutcliffe (with whom she competed for 'best painter in class') and John Lennon. Her"
"Grace Pailthorpe Grace W. Pailthorpe (29 July 1883 – 19 July 1971) was a British surrealist painter, surgeon, and psychology researcher. Pailthorpe was born in St Leonards-on-Sea in Sussex in 1883. She was the third child and the only daughter among the ten children born to Edward Pailthorpe and Lavinia Green, who were both members of the Plymouth Brethren, a strict and puritanical religious sect. Pailthorpe enrolled at the Royal College of Music in 1908 but soon decided to study medicine and by 1914 had qualified as a doctor at the Royal Victoria Infirmary in Newcastle upon Tyne with a"
"Henry Scott Tuke, John William Waterhouse, George Frederick Watts and Cornish painter John Opie. Following a 2009 Art Fund bequest, Falmouth acquired a major collection including etchings by Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Edvard Munch, and several works by Prunella Clough, one of the most significant British painters and printmakers of the post-war period. This was followed in 2013 by a major gift of 20 works of art to the gallery from the British artist Robert Priseman. Known as The Robert Priseman Gift works of art by leading British artists of the 21st century such as Mary Webb, Sir Peter Blake, Nicholas"
"– 27 January 1968). She probably suffered from Charcot–Marie–Tooth disease, a genetic polyneuropathy. Wyeth was inspired to create the painting when he saw her crawling across a field while he was watching from a window in the house. He had a summer home in the area and was on friendly terms with Olson, using her and her younger brother as the subjects of paintings from 1940 to 1968. Olson was the inspiration and subject of the painting but she was not the primary model; Wyeth's wife Betsy posed as the torso of the painting. Olson was 55 at the time"
"Frances Lennon Frances Lennon, MBE (12 September 1912 – 24 January 2015) was an award-winning British artist from Greater Manchester, probably best known for being the Official Artist of the 2002 Commonwealth Games. Many comparisons have been made between Lennon's work and that of fellow Stretfordian L. S. Lowry; her paintings have been described as ""Lowry-esque, but with more humour"". Well-known collectors of her work include former Member of Parliament Winston Churchill. Lennon was born on Haddon Street, in the Gorse Hill district of Stretford. She was the second child of Edward and Margaret Mooney, and grew up with her"
"and Frank Bickerton both lived in the city. Artists include Beryl Cook whose paintings depict the culture of Plymouth and Robert Lenkiewicz, whose paintings investigated themes of vagrancy, sexual behaviour and suicide, lived in the city from the 1960s until his death in 2002. Illustrator and creator of children's series Mr Benn and King Rollo, David McKee, was born and brought up in South Devon and trained at Plymouth College of Art. Jazz musician John Surman, born in nearby Tavistock, has close connections to the area, evidenced by his 2012 album Saltash Bells. The avant garde prepared guitarist Keith Rowe"
"Wales, to be with her younger sister. . She had a small studio and continued her work as an artist until her death in 1968. Winnicott left a number of paintings in notable collections including Plymouth City Council and her alma mater. Her work will remain in copyright until 2038, but images of her paintings are available. Alice Buxton Winnicott Alice Buxton Winnicott née Taylor (1891 – 1968) was an English painter and ceramist. Alice Buxton Taylor was born in 1891, in Claverdon, Warwickshire, the second of five accomplished children. Her father was John William Taylor (1851-1910) who was the"
"a serious painter. After George died of cancer in 1974, she was inconsolable and less than a year later, with deteriorating eyesight and suffering depression, committed suicide by swallowing poison. She held exhibitions at Blaxland Gallery in 1933 and Macquarie Galleries in 1933, 1939, 1946, 1949 and 1958 A joint retrospective of George's and Alison's work was held at Macquarie Galleries in 1976. 1929 Royal Art Society Prize for Still Life Alison Rehfisch Alison Baily Rehfisch (23 January 1900 – 12 March 1974) was an Australian painter born in Sydney. Alison Rehfisch was born as Alison Baily Green on 23"
"exhibited at the Sussex Artists, Marlborough Artists, South West Academy of Fine Art. Goldsmith died on 9 June 2017 at the age of 88. Patricia Goldsmith Patricia Goldsmith (27 March 1929 - 9 June 2017) was an English painter, printmaker, illustrator and draughtsman. Born in Hove, Sussex in 1929, Patricia Goldsmith attended Brighton and Hove High School before enrolling at Brighton College of Art in 1947 where she was awarded a National Diploma in Design and an Arts Teacher Diploma. She went on to study art at the Royal Academy Schools, London from 1951-1955. Among the many prestigious institutions that"
"specific term ""Pop Art"" in the piece. Alloway suffered from a neurological disorder and died of cardiac arrest on 2 January 1990, aged 63. Lawrence Alloway Lawrence Reginald Alloway (London, 17 September 1926 – New York City, 2 January 1990) was an English art critic and curator who worked in the United States from 1961. In the 1950s, he was a leading member of the Independent Group in the UK and in the 1960s was an influential writer and curator in the US. He first used the term ""mass popular art"" in the mid-1950s and used the term ""Pop Art"""
"Art Collection. By the end of his career, Moore was the world's most successful living artist at auction. In 1982, four years before his death, Sotheby's in New York sold a 6 ft ""Reclining Figure"" (1945), for $1.2 million to collector Wendell Cherry. Although a first record of $4.1 million was set in 1990, Moore's market slumped during the recession that followed. In 2012, his eight-foot bronze, """" (1951) sold for a record £19.1 million at Christie's, making him the second most expensive 20th-century British artist after Francis Bacon. Henry Moore Henry Spencer Moore (30 July 1898 – 31 August"
"Margaret Lindsay Williams Margaret Lindsay Williams, (18 June 1888 – 4 June 1960) was a Welsh artist who was commissioned to paint portraits of the British royal family, European royalty and American presidents. She was best known as a portrait painter and painted portraits of Queen Alexandra, Queen Mary, Princess Margaret and at least five portraits of the present Queen Elizabeth II. She also painted President Warren Harding, Henry Ford and Field Marshal Slim. Although Williams gained considerable recognition and was famous in her lifetime, her work has been neglected since. Williams was born in Cardiff, the eldest of the"
"Consultant Psychiatrist at the Portman Clinic, with Mednikoff as her assistant. She also ran a School of Art Therapy from 1950 until 1958 when she moved to Sussex. In 1986 Leeds City Art Gallery included Pailthorpe in the major exhibition ""Angels of Anarchy - Surrealism in Britain in the Thirties"" and also in their 1992 exhibition ""Women Artists of the British Surrealist Movement, 1930-1990"". A joint retrospective with Mednikoff, ""Sluice Gates of the Mind"" was held at the same gallery in 1998. Grace Pailthorpe Grace W. Pailthorpe (29 July 1883 – 19 July 1971) was a British surrealist painter, surgeon,"
"founder and chairman of The Sussex Artists Club. Jamie McCartney Jamie McCartney (born 1975) is a professional artist working in many disciplines who lives in Brighton, England. Maintaining that the naked body is still a controversial subject, he is most famous for his ten paneled wall sculpture ""The Great Wall of Vagina"", comprising plaster casts taken from 400 volunteers' genitals. Often using the body as inspiration he works with both traditional and novel materials and processes, he explores the human condition and themes of religion, sexuality and death. The main body of McCartney's work has been three-dimensional, often experimental in"
"Gallery on 1 June 2013, and subsequently toured to Pallant House Gallery in Chichester, West Sussex from 30 November 2013 – 9 February 2014. Film TV Pauline Boty Pauline Boty (6 March 1938 – 1 July 1966) was a founder of the British Pop art movement and the only female painter in the British wing of the movement. Boty's paintings and collages often demonstrated a joy in self-assured femininity and female sexuality, and expressed overt or implicit criticism of the ""man's world"" in which she lived. Her rebellious art, combined with her free-spirited lifestyle, has made Boty a herald of"
"of the Arts Council of England, the British Council, the National Museum of Wales, the Ferens Art Gallery in Hull, Glasgow Art Gallery, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, Southampton City Art Gallery, the British Government Art Collection, the Tate Gallery and The Hepworth in Wakefield. Uglow died of liver cancer at his home in Wandsworth, London, in 2000. The Estate of Uglow is represented by Marlborough Fine Art, London. Uglow was predominantly a painter of the human figure, although he also painted still lifes and landscapes. His method was meticulous, involving a great deal of measuring and"
"in Deià on 7 June 1999. An obituary in ""The Independent"" called Lady June ""a great British eccentric and cosmic prankster"", and said that her ""most achieved performance was herself: she succeeded in turning her existence into living art, bristling with humour."" Source: AllMusic Lady June June Campbell Cramer (3 June 1931 – 7 June 1999), better known as Lady June, was an English painter, poet and musician. She was associated with the Canterbury scene and recorded two albums. She exhibited and performed her works in several countries, often combining her painting, poetry and music into multimedia presentations. AllMusic described"
"Beryl Cook Beryl Cook, OBE (10 September 192628 May 2008) was an English artist best known for her original and instantly recognisable paintings. Often comical, her works pictured people whom she encountered in everyday life, including people enjoying themselves in pubs, girls shopping or out on a hen night, drag queen shows or a family picnicking by the seaside or abroad. She had no formal training and did not take up painting until her thirties. She was a shy and private person, and in her art often depicted the flamboyant and extrovert characters she would like to be. Cook admired"
"Beryl Cook Beryl Cook, OBE (10 September 192628 May 2008) was an English artist best known for her original and instantly recognisable paintings. Often comical, her works pictured people whom she encountered in everyday life, including people enjoying themselves in pubs, girls shopping or out on a hen night, drag queen shows or a family picnicking by the seaside or abroad. She had no formal training and did not take up painting until her thirties. She was a shy and private person, and in her art often depicted the flamboyant and extrovert characters she would like to be. Cook admired"
"more concentrated work on visual art, with paintings from the 1930s and 1940s constituting some of his best-known work. Walter Sickert called Wyndham Lewis: ""the greatest portraitist of this or any other time"". Modernist sculpture was exemplified by English artists Henry Moore (1898-1986), well known for his carved marble and larger-scale abstract cast bronze sculptures, and Barbara Hepworth (1903-1975), who was a leading figure in the colony of artists who resided in St Ives, Cornwall during World War II. Lancastrian L. S. Lowry (1887-1976) became famous for his scenes of life in the industrial districts of North West England in"
"Kelmscott Manor to secure it for her daughters' future. However, she did not return to the house after having purchased it. Jane Morris died on 26 January 1914, while staying at 5 Brock Street in Bath. She is buried in the churchyard of St. George's Church in Kelmscott. Paintings of Jane Morris by Dante Gabriel Rossetti: Photographs of Jane Burden by Rossetti are available at . By William Morris: By Edward Burne-Jones: By Evelyn De Morgan: Jane Morris Jane Morris (née Jane Burden; 19 October 1839 – 26 January 1914) was an embroiderer and English artists' model who embodied the"
"Pennsylvania. Arnold's works are in several museum collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City (""Jean's Legs II""), the Chrysler Museum in Norfolk, Virginia, and the Albright–Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, New York. Arnold died on June 20, 2014, of natural causes, in her New York City studio at the age of 89. Anne Arnold Anne Arnold, (May 2, 1925- June 20, 2014) was a sculptor best known for her whimsical life-size and sometimes larger than life-size sculptures of animals and people rendered in wood, ceramic, or softer materials such as canvas and Dynel, and resins. Arnold"
"Gertrude Partington Albright Gertrude Partington Albright (Sept. 11, 1874- Sept. 7, 1959) was a British-born American artist known for portrait etchings and her Cubism-influenced California landscapes. She taught at the California School of Fine Arts for nearly thirty years. She was born Gertrude Partington in Heysham, a coastal village in England. Her father was John Herbert Evelyn Partington (1843–99), a painter, and her mother was Sarah (Mottershead) Partington. Four of her six siblings also had careers in the arts, notably Blanche, who became a writer; Phyllis, who became an opera singer under the stage name Frances Peralta; John, who became"
"Mabel Pakenham-Walsh Mabel Pakenham-Walsh (2 September 1937 − 19 August 2013) was a British painter, sculptor and designer, and pioneering female artist in post-war European figurative art. She worked in many mediums, but is particularly well known for her colourful wooden relief sculptures. Her work was significantly influenced by primitive and outsider art, and created primarily from recycled materials, earning her recognition as an early eco artist. Mabel Pakenham-Walsh was born in Lancaster, England, the daughter of Robert Pakenham-Walsh, a prominent psychiatrist. Born with congenital hip dysplasia, she suffered lifelong physical disability; and in 1957, while a student at university,"
"died on 12 July 1988 in a nursing home in Enniskerry, County Wicklow. Her work is greatly admired, but has received little by way of critical attention, which may have been to do with her slow rate of output. A number of her works have proved difficult to trace. Vanston was a private person, even refusing to cooperate with the Taylor galleries in the 1980s when they wanted to mount a retrospective of her work. The National Self-Portrait Collection in Limerick holds a work by Vanston. Dairine Vanston Doreen or Dairine Vanston (19 October 1903 – 12 July 1988) was"
"Roy Hodds, well known for landscape and marine studies, died last week after a long illness. Work by the painter who captured many Norfolk scenes on canvas [board], were included in a book on 20th century British marine painters. He exhibited at the Royal Institute of Oil Painters and the Royal Society of Marine Artists in London. Mr Hodds, aged 53, leaves a widow and four children. ‘This man was clearly in my humble submission, the best artist in Norfolk,’ commented Yarmouth gallery proprietor Mr Michael Wide, who has exhibited many Hodds paintings. And warm tributes also came from Mrs"
"Gillian Mann Gillian Mann (11 May 1939 – 29 December 2007), English/Australian artist who won the Blake Prize for Religious Art with the woodcut print on paper titled The Chest in 1990. She was born in Derby, England and moved to Canberra, Australia in 1971 and retired to the small town of Binalong, New South Wales in the 1990s. She was a printmaking lecturer at the Canberra School of Art. She specialised in printmaking techniques and changed to digital art in the late 1990s. Other bodies of work included glass sculptures. She died in 2007 from pancreatic cancer and is"
"London and she died at Redruth in 1964 and is buried in the cemetery at Paul. As an artist, Ruth Simpson largely focused on portrait painting. She developed a distinct style of portraiture, working with colour in a modern style and often using bright coloured backgrounds. She had three works in group shows hosted by the Society of Women Artists. She painted several portraits of women artists who were based in Cornwall, including Ella Naper and Gertrude Harvey. Her three-quarter length ""Portrait of an Officer"" is in the collection of the Imperial War Museum while her portrait of Frank Ver"
"in London aged 59 following a sudden illness and heart surgery. She was survived by her four children. Pamela Manson Pamela Manson (30 September 1928 – 19 March 1988) was a British actress who in her 30-year career on film, television and stage is best known for playing comedy roles. She was also a political activist who was a member of the International Committee for Artists' Freedom for Equity and a committee member of the National Campaign for the Reform of the Obscene Publications Acts. Born as Pamela J. Cowan, and originally from Leeds, before turning to an acting career"
"close with dancers Julie Kent and Gelsey Kirkland, both of whom who thanked her and discussed working with her in their autobiographies. She died from complications of cancer. Georgina Parkinson Georgina Parkinson (20 August 1938 – 18 December 2009) was a British ballerina, ballet mistress and a coach at the American Ballet Theatre. Parkinson was born in Brighton, England. She was a ballet dancer for The Royal Ballet in the 1960s. Her breakthrough performance was in 1964 with ""Les Biches"", and she performed in narrative ballets like ""Swan Lake"" and ""Raymonda"". In 1978, she performed character roles at Ballet Theatre."