Ursula Fookes
Ursula Mary Fookes (27 June 1906 in St. John's Wood, London – 1991 in Blakeney, Norfolk) was an English painter and printmaker, who worked in colour linocut and painted in oils and watercolours. Fookes studied at the Grosvenor School of Modern Art from 1929 to 1931, under Claude Flight.
Also recorded as Ursula Mary Fookes
Ursula Fookes
- Born
- Ursula Fookes was born on 27 June 1906.
- Died
- Ursula Fookes died in 1991.
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- printmaker · artist
- Education
- Grosvenor School of Modern Art
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She exhibited in the annual British Linocut exhibitions at the Redfern and Ward Galleries in the 1930s, and also showed her work with the Society of Women Artists and the New English Art Club. Also during the 1930s Fookes painted and travelled abroad, often with the artist Pauline Logan, who shared a studio with her in Pimlico. In 1939, Fookes moved to Hampshire where she did war work before travelling to Europe in 1945 to spend a year running a mobile canteen for troops. The Imperial War Museum in London holds the diary she kept during that time. She retired to Wiveton in North Norfolk. In Norfolk she developed a keen interest in bird-watching and her output as an artist greatly diminished but interest in her work revived after her death. Examples of her work are held by the Art Institute of Chicago.
• 2010 "Emerging Images: The Creative Process in Prints", International Print Center New York
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1906
Ursula Fookes was born on 27 June 1906.
1991
Ursula Fookes died.
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- 1.Elizabeth Harvey-Lee. Mistresses of the graphic arts: famous & forgotten women printmakers c.1550-c.1950. 1995. 9780952554417.
- 2.David Buckman. Artists in Britain Since 1945 Vol 1, A to L. Art Dictionaries Ltd. 2006. 0-953260-95-X.
- 3.Private papers of Miss U M Fookes. Imperial War Museum.
- 4.Discover Art & Artists | the Art Institute of Chicago. The Art Institute of Chicago.
- 5.ArtSlant - September 16th - October 17th, IPCNY International Print Center New York, John Armleder, Chuck Close, E.V. Day, Arthur Wesley Dow, Carroll Dunham, Ursula Fookes, Joanne Greenbaum, Richard Hamilton, Barry LeVa, Chris Martin, Joan Miró, Jim Nutt, Cyril Power, Dieter Roth, James Siena, Kiki Smith.
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