Edith Rimmington
Edith Rimmington (2 April 1902 – 1986), was an English artist, poet and photographer associated with the Surrealist movement.
Biography
She was born in Leicester and studied at the Brighton School of Art. Whilst in Sussex she met and married the artist Leslie Robert Baxter. She moved from Manchester to London in 1937. [1] She was then introduced to the British Surrealist Group in 1939 by Gordon Onslow Ford and was one of the few female members, along with Eileen Agar and her close friend Emmy Bridgwater. Bridgwater and Rimmington had been inspired by the International Surrealist Exhibition which had introduced surrealism into England in 1936.[2][3]
Works
There is only one painting by Edith Rimmington in the public domain, The Decoy which is on display in the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art in Edinburgh.
References
- ^ "Edith Rimmington", Artists In Britain Since 1945 - Chapter R, Goldmark Gallery, p. 70.
- ^ Gaze, Delia (1997), "Agar, Eileen", Dictionary of Women Artists: Artists, J-Z, Taylor & Francis, p. 170, ISBN 1-884964-21-4.
- ^ Libmann, Brigitte (2003), "British Women Surrealists-Deviants from Deviance", in Oldfield (ed.), This Working-Day World: Women's Lives And Culture(s) In Britain, 1914-1945, CRC Press, pp. 163–164.