Field-Eden, Elizabeth
(1902 - ?)
British painter and
printmaker
Recently I was pointed by Tom from Boston to
this watercolor (for sale with a "Buy-Now" button in Ebay at a Cotswold dealer) and "followed" by a hoard of interested but not daring to buy customers. Supposedly it is a study for a
woodblock print. Wouldn't it be nice to know if she really came to carve the blocks for making a print ?
Again Wolfgang, the Wizzard from Frankfurt, solved the puzzle of the castle’s location: it’s Chateauvieux also known as Chateau Duingt on the borders of Lac d'Annecy below the spikes of the Massif du Taillefer. It is much nicer having a print or painting with a name or title.
Trying to find out some
more about the artist I landed in a 2011 posting in Steve Bishop’s former and abandoned Blog and found these two other examples of woodblock prints by this artist.
Although Elizabeth is not treated in my copy of “British wood engraving of the 20th century” by Albert Garret she was in the Encyclopaedia of British Artists 1880-1940: a watercolour
artist and wood engraver who had studied at the Birmingham Central School of
Arts and Crafts and then on to the Slade School of Fine Art in London. Recorded addresses as
Wolverhampton c1925 and then Edgbaston (near Birmingham) by 1928. Some
exhibition record with 16 works shown at the Royal Society of Artists,
Birmingham and 2 works at the New England Art Club.
Thanks to the label on
the back of the painting combined with an entry in an old telephone book she and her husband, a W. A. Field, who most probably was involved in the classics and/or
archeological world, lived in Coleswood Lodge, East Common, Harpenden
(Hertfodshire) some 40 km. North-East of the centre of London. So the painting could actually be from the artists estate.
Obviously Paul Cezanne
(1839-1906) was here too.
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Elizabeth Eden was my grandmither. She died in 1997. Some of her work is kept at Birmingham school of Art.
ReplyDeleteThank you very much. If you would like to share some more (biographical) facts about your grandmother and possibly her art I would be delighted to write an update or additional on that posting.
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Not sure who has put the above entry... she was my Grandmother, also. She was born Elizabeth Field and married Architect WA Eden (not Field, as you have above). She had a family house in Worcestershire, so your connection to a Cotswold dealer is interesting.
ReplyDeleteShe did many watercolours. Not all were turned into colour woodcuts. Many of her wood blocks are held by Birmingham Art Gallery, who exhibited her work in an exhibition entitled "Light on the Landscape".