Unsung Heroines | Twentieth Century British Art by Phoebe Willetts-Dickinson: “A Corner of the Artist's Studio with paintbox on a Windsor chair, late 30's”

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Artist Phoebe Willetts-Dickinson: A Corner of the Artists Studio with paintbox on a Windsor chair, late 30s

Artist Phoebe Willetts-Dickinson (1917-1978): A Corner of the Artists Studio with paintbox on a Windsor chair, late 30s

Phoebe Willetts-Dickinson (1917-1978):
A Corner of the Artist's Studio with paintbox on a Windsor chair, late 30's
Framed (ref: 7808)
Oil on canvas

19.5 x 16 in. (49.5 x 40.6 cm)

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Provenance: The Artist's family

Literature: Llewellyn, Sacha, and Paul Liss. Portrait of an Artist. Liss Llewellyn, 2021, p.69.

The ad hoc use of a Windsor Chair to support a paint box, with a lectern alongside which logically might have been used for transcribing drawings onto the canvas on the easel above, suggests a makeshift studio arranged in the student lodgings. Willets attended the Royal Academy Schools between 1934 and 1940.