inscribed in pencil, Dawn Cookson, Student posing in Bernard Fleetwood Walker's Pedagogue class drawn by Catherine Moody, Birmingham School of Art, 1943
Oil on Paper
Tags: Catherine Olive Moody
Provenance: The Artist's Studio
COOKSON Dawn Imogen Sallie 1925-2005 was a painter, born in Birmingham trained Birmingham School of Art 1943-48 and later in Italy including a decade at the studios of Pietro Annigoni in Florence. Cookson has shown group exhibitions in Birmingham and Cotswolds and has held several one-person exhibitions. Her paintings are in private collections in many countries. A well-known portrait painter, her commissions have included work in the USA and the UK. She has painted the portraits of Stuart Blanch, Archbishop of York, and various other ecclesiastical and civil dignitaries. In the 1990’s her commissions included HRH Princess Royal, commissioned by the Officers of the Worcestershire & Sherwood Foresters of which she is Colonel-in-Chief. She was elected a member of the RBSA in 1974 and has exhibited for many years at the RP.
