Stephen Bone:
Mary Adshead Sketching
Unframed (ref: 6601)

Signed

Oil on panel

Tags: Stephen Bone oil artists at work women 1.PORTRAIT OF AN ARTIST WOMEN women portraits Mercer Mary Adshead (1904-1995) & Stephen Bone (1904-1958)

Provenance: The Artist's Estate

Literature: Llewellyn, Sacha, and Paul Liss. Portrait of an Artist. Liss Llewellyn, 2021, p.234.

Bone's rapidly painted 'en plein air' sketches were the subject of  popular one-man shows at Leferve, Redfern, The Leceister Galleries and The Fine Art Society. His remarkable productivity (he aimed to paint at least one panel a day) was only curtailed  by the fact that he died prematurely -  at the age of 54.   He painted his wife Mary at work on several occasions.

Mary Adshead, Self Portrait, 1931, Sheffield Art Gallery