Elsie Few

Elsie Few studied at Slade School of Fine Art. The recorded working language is English. Employment is recorded with Kingston University. Work by Elsie Few is recorded in the collections of Auckland Art Gallery, Tate, Royal West of England Academy and Arts Council Collection, Southbank Centre.

• Name — Elsie Few • Birth Name — Elsie Evelyn Few • Born — 4 February 1909 • Birthplace — Kingston, Jamaica • Died — 17 December 1980 • Field — Painting • Training — * Slade School of Art • Bartlett School of Architecture

Few was born in Kingston, Jamaica. She moved to London to study at the Slade School of Art and the Bartlett School of Architecture from 1929 and 1931, before travelling and studying throughout Europe. Few met and worked with artists from the Euston Road School. In 1937 she married Claude Rogers, one of the founding members of the School and together they, along with Victor Pasmore held a joint exhibition at the Burnett Webster Gallery in Kingston, Jamaica, in 1936. Shortly afterwards, Few had her first solo exhibition at the same gallery. Few was elected a member of the London Group in 1943 and from 1945 until 1948 worked for Chatto & Windus as an art editor. In 1948, works by Few were included in the Euston Road School and others exhibition held at the Wakefield City Art Gallery, but not in the subsequent touring version of the exhibition created by the Arts Council. From 1946 until 1969 she headed the art department at the Gipsy Hill College. Few had a number of notable exhibitions during her career, including at the Whitechapel Art Gallery in 1973 and at the Annexe Gallery in Wimbledon during 1979.