Ethel Kirkpatrick | |
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| Born | Ethel Alice Kirkpatrick 30 November 1869 Clerkenwell, London, England |
| Died | 28 December 1966 (aged 97) Middlesex, England |
| Alma mater | Royal Academy School, Central School of Arts and Crafts, Académie Julien |
| Style | marine and landscape painter |
Ethel Alice Kirkpatrick (30 November 1869 – 28 December 1966) was a British painter, printmaker and jeweller.[1][2] She was a marine and landscape painter, mainly working in oil and watercolour but also producing woodcuts.[3][4]
Early life and training
[edit]Ethel Alice Kirkpatrick, was the second daughter of Mary Ann Rosa Kirkpatrick (née Marriott) and Thomas Sutton Kirkpatrick. She was born on 30 November 1869 in Clerkenwell, London.[5] Her older sister was Ida Marion Kirkpatrick (1866– 1950), who introduced her to art.
Their father was a professional soldier from a landed family at Coolmine, Dublin, Ireland.[5] After leaving a position in the Indian Army, he worked in the British prison service, later as governor of Exeter, Newgate and then Wormwood Scrubs prisons.[4]
Kirkpatrick studied at the Royal Academy School[6] and at the Central School of Arts and Crafts, where she learned enamelling and woodcutting techniques.[3][4][7] She continued studying at the Académie Julien in Paris.[5]
Working life
[edit]Both Ethel and her older sister Ida travelled to artist’s colonies in St Ives, Cornwall and Walberswick, Suffolk. They both appear in biographical lists of Suffolk artists and Cornwall artists.[8][9] After their father died in 1895 or 1896,[10] a large art studio was built for the sisters behind their family house at Grove Hill, Harrow-on-the Hill, London, which they named "The Gables."[10][11]
Kirkpatrick produced paintings and woodcut work in colour. She was a member of the Society of Graver Painters and of the Colour Woodcut Society.[3] Colour woodcuts by her are in the collections of the National Gallery of Canada[12] and the Victoria and Albert Museum.[13] Both the Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery and the British Museum also hold examples of Kirkpatrick's prints in their collections.[4]
Kirkpatrick was considered influential by many of the British colour woodcut artists working after her in the 1910s and 1920s.[10]
Exhibitions
[edit]From 1891, Kirkpatrick began exhibiting at several London galleries, such as the Alpine Club Gallery.[5] She showed at the Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibitions twelve times between 1895-1941 and exhibited with the Royal Society of British Artists.[3] In 1901, she also exhibited at the Third Exhibition of the International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers in London.[1]
Examples of her and her sister Ida's work were included in ‘Print and Prejudice: Women Printmakers, 1700-1930’, an exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, 2022-23.[1]
Selected works
[edit]Death
[edit]Kirkpatrick died on 28 December 1966 in Middlesex, England. Her sister Ida had died sixteen years previously.[5]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Miss Ethel Kirkpatrick - Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951". University of Glasgow. Archived from the original on 21 June 2019. Retrieved 19 May 2019.
- ^ "The Studio". 1906.
- ^ a b c d Waters, Grant M. (1975). Dictionary of British Artists Working 1900–1950. Eastbourne Fine Art.
- ^ a b c d Garton, Robin (1992). British Printmakers 1855-1955 A Century of Printmaking from the Etching Revival to St Ives. Garton & Co / Scolar Press. ISBN 0-85967-968-3.
- ^ a b c d e "Ethel Kirkpatrick Biography". Annex Galleries Fine Prints. Retrieved 9 April 2025.
- ^ Art, Chazen Museum of (2006). Color Woodcut International: Japan, Britain, and America in the Early Twentieth Century. Chazen Museum of Art. p. 37. ISBN 978-0-932900-64-7.
- ^ Harvey-Lee (Firm), Elizabeth (1995). Mistresses of the Graphic Arts: Famous & Forgotten Women Printmakers C.1550-c.1950 : a New Stock Catalogue, Autumn 1995. Elizabeth Harvey-Lee. p. 88. ISBN 978-0-9525544-1-7.
- ^ "KIRKPATRICK, Ethel Alice". Suffolk Artists. Retrieved 21 December 2022.
- ^ "Ethel KIRKPATRICK". Cornwall Artists Index. Retrieved 21 December 2022.
- ^ a b c d "Rooks Nesting by Ethel Kirkpatrick". Campbell Fine Art. Retrieved 9 April 2025.
- ^ "The Harbour Print circa 1917 (made)". Victoria and Albert Museum. 1917.
- ^ "Ethel Kirkpatrick". National Gallery of Canada. Archived from the original on 16 January 2018. Retrieved 19 May 2019.
- ^ "Print | Kirkpatrick, Ethel | V&A Search the Collections". 19 May 2019.
- ^ a b c d e Wood, Christopher; Newall, Christopher; Richardson, Margaret (1995). Victorian Painters: The text. Antique Collectors' Club. p. 296. ISBN 978-1-85149-171-1.
