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Kathleen Guthrie
Born
Kathleen Maltby

1905
Feltham, Middlesex
Died1981
NationalityBritish
Education
Known forPainting

Kathleen Guthrie (née Maltby), (1905–1981) was a British artist who exhibited with the London Group and at the Royal Academy and also had several solo exhibitions.[1] During a long career Guthrie painted in oils and watercolours, produced silkscreens and murals and wrote and illustrated children's books.[2]

Biography

A Bombed Hospital Ward (Art.IWM ART LD944)

Guthrie was born in Feltham in Middlesex and attended the Slade School of Art between 1921 and 1923, before attending the Royal Academy Schools for three years.[1] In 1927 she married the artist Robin Guthrie and moved to America with him in 1931 when he became a director of the Boston School of Fine Art. In 1932, while in Boston, Kathleen Guthrie had the first solo exhibition of her career with works shown at the Grace Horne Gallery in that city. The following year the Guthrie's returned to England and settled in Sussex but divorced in 1937.[3]

During World War II, Guthrie submitted several works to the War Artists' Advisory Committee and the Committee did acquire one of the paintings she produced during the conflict, that of a bombed hospital ward.[4][5]

Guthrie married the abstract artist Cecil Stephenson in 1941 and continued to exhibit on a regular basis. She exhibited with the London Group and at the Royal Academy and held her first solo exhibition in Britain at the Little Gallery in 1947. Her 1951 exhibition at the Crane Kalman gallery in Manchester was well reviewed and considered a great success.[3] Guthrie also wrote and illustrated children's books, most notably with her first published book, The Magic Button which was published in 1958.[3] A subsequent volume, Magic Button to the Moon also contained short poems by Guthrie.[2] After Stephenson's death in 1965, Guthrie reproduced, as silk screens, three of his signature Abstracts designs from 1936, 1937 and 1938. During the 1960s Guthrie produced a further series of abstract silk screens, which she titled Camelot, that featured combinations of fields of pure colour.[6]

References

  1. ^ a b Frances Spalding (1990). 20th Century Painters and Sculptors. Antique Collectors' Club. ISBN 1 85149 106 6.
  2. ^ a b "Kathleen Guthrie (1905–1981)". Price Davies Fine Art. Retrieved 29 March 2016.
  3. ^ a b c "Kathleen Guthrie (1905–1981)". Paisnel Gallery. Retrieved 29 March 2016.
  4. ^ Imperial War Museum. "War artists archive: Kathleen Guthrie". Imperial War Museum. Retrieved 29 March 2016.
  5. ^ Imperial War Museum. "A Bombed Hospital Ward". Imperial War Museum. Retrieved 29 March 2016.
  6. ^ Paul Liss (2014). Liss Fine Art 2014. Liss Fine Art. ISBN 978-0-9567139-7-1.

Further reading

  • A Poet's Eye, The Paintings of Kathleen Guthrie by Jonathen Eastway, Cartmel Press (1999)
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