Eve Kirk

Eve Kirk
Born 22 July 1900[1]
Died 1969
Siena, Italy[1]
Nationality British
Education Slade School of Fine Art
Known for Painting
Tower Bridge by Eve Kirk, painted during World War II

Eve Kirk was a British landscape and decorative painter.

Life & Career

Kirk was born in London on 22 July 1900.[1] She studied at the Slade School of Fine Art from 1919–1922,[1][2] and later travelled to France, Italy and Greece.[1] Her first solo exhibition was at the Paterson Gallery in 1930.[3] Augustus John - who later painted her portrait[4] - wrote an introduction to the exhibition catalogue[5] in which he said:

"With a curious swiftness and certainty she has captured a method, a technique which seems to provide a perfect means for the interpretation of the subjects of her choice, the streets, the quays and the market-places of Provence, Italy or London."[6][7]

She later exhibited at Arthur Tooth & Sons (in 1932[8] and 1935,[3][9] and alongside Paul Nash in 1939[7]) and at the Lefevre Gallery in 1949.[1][3]

During the Second World War, Kirk worked for civil defence in London, but continued to paint and held an exhibition in 1943 at the Leicester Galleries.[10] Her painting Bomb Damage in the City was shown as part of the exhibition of National War Pictures at the Royal Academy of Arts in 1945.[7] She was commissioned to decorate the Roman Catholic Church of God The Holy Ghost, Penygloddfa in Newtown, Powys, in the mid-1940s.[1][11] In the mid-1950s she emigrated to Italy and ceased to paint.[3] She died in Siena in 1969.[1]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 "Eve Kirk". The Times. 10 December 1969. p. 13. Retrieved 8 July 2013.
  2. ↑ Morris, Edward (2001). Public Art Collections in North-West England: A History and Guide. Liverpool University Press. p. 155. ISBN 0853235279.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 "Eve Kirk". Tate. Retrieved 8 July 2013.
  4. ↑ "Eve Kirk (1900–1969)". BBC. Retrieved 8 July 2013.
  5. ↑ Fincham, David (22 March 1930). "Art". The Spectator 144 (5308): 473–474. ISSN 0038-6952.
  6. ↑ The Studio 99: 369. 1930. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 "Eve Kirk". ArtFortune.com. Retrieved 8 July 2013.
  8. ↑ "Miss Eve Kirk". The Times. 6 May 1932. p. 12. Retrieved 8 July 2013.
  9. ↑ "Art Exhibitions". The Times. 17 July 1935. p. 12. Retrieved 8 July 2013.
  10. ↑ Alicia Foster (2004). Tate Women Artists. Tate Publishing. ISBN 1-85437-311-0.
  11. ↑ Haslam, Richard (1992). The Buildings Of Wales: Powys. Penguin. p. 174.

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