£1,950
Mary Adshead:
Gladstone & Venus, 1931
Framed (ref: 7759)
Inscribed with title, dated; inscribed to reverse
Gladstone following Venus of Chrystal PalacePen and ink, pencil, gouache, watercolour and pen and ink on paper
Tags: Mary Adshead gouache ink pen and ink pencil watercolour allegory life drawing men women
Provenance: Sylvester Bone
Literature: Clough, Mathew/ Compton, Ann, Earthly delights Mary Adshead 1904-1995, University of Liverpool Art Gallery, 2005, p 32
The 1930's marked a particularly productive and successful decade for Adshead. In 1930 she held a solo show at the Goupil Gallery, and was elected a member of the New English Art Club that year.
In 1931 Adshead began a series of drawings and watercolours of the Crystal Palace, London. She exhibited regularly at the Royal Academy and with the Women's International Art Club from the mid-1930s.She and Bone produced murals for Cunard's liner Queen Mary in 1935-6
