Eve Kirk

Eve Kirk (22 July 1900 - 1969) was a British landscape and decorative painter.

Eve Kirk
Born(1900-07-22)22 July 1900
London
Died1969 (aged 68–69)
Siena, Italy
NationalityBritish
EducationSlade School of Fine Art
Known forPainting
Tower Bridge by Eve Kirk, painted during World War II

Life & Career

Kirk was born in London on 22 July 1900.[1] She studied at the Slade School of Fine Art from 1919 to 1922,[2] and later travelled to France, Italy and Greece.[1] Her first solo exhibition was at the Paterson Gallery in 1930.[3] Augustus John - who later painted her portrait - wrote an introduction to the exhibition catalogue[4] in which he said:

"With a curious swiftness and certainty she has captured a method, a technique which seems to provide a perfect means for the interpretation of the subjects of her choice, the streets, the quays and the market-places of Provence, Italy or London."[5][6]

Kirk later exhibited at Arthur Tooth & Sons, in 1932 and 1935,[7][8] and alongside Paul Nash in 1939[6] and at the Lefevre Gallery in 1949.[1][3][9]

During the Second World War, Kirk worked for civil defence in London, but continued to paint and held an exhibition in 1943 at the Leicester Galleries.[10] Her painting Bomb Damage in the City was shown as part of the exhibition of National War Pictures at the Royal Academy of Arts in 1945.[6] She was commissioned to decorate the Roman Catholic Church of God The Holy Ghost, Penygloddfa in Newtown, Powys, in the mid-1940s.[1][11][12] In the mid-1950s she emigrated to Italy and ceased to paint.[3] She died in Siena in 1969.[1]

References
  1. "Eve Kirk". The Times. 10 December 1969. p. 13. Retrieved 8 July 2013.
  2. Morris, Edward (2001). Public Art Collections in North-West England: A History and Guide. Liverpool University Press. p. 155. ISBN 0853235279.
  3. "Eve Kirk". Tate. Retrieved 8 July 2013.
  4. Fincham, David (22 March 1930). "Art". The Spectator. 144 (5308): 473–474. ISSN 0038-6952.
  5. "The Studio". The Journal. 99: 369. 1930.
  6. "Eve Kirk". ArtFortune.com. Retrieved 8 July 2013.
  7. "Miss Eve Kirk". The Times. 6 May 1932. p. 12. Retrieved 8 July 2013.
  8. "Art Exhibitions". The Times. 17 July 1935. p. 12. Retrieved 8 July 2013.
  9. Frances Spalding (1990). 20th Century Painters and Sculptors. Antique Collectors' Club. ISBN 1 85149 106 6.
  10. Alicia Foster (2004). Tate Women Artists. Tate Publishing. ISBN 1-85437-311-0.
  11. Haslam, Richard (1992). The Buildings Of Wales: Powys. Penguin. p. 174.
  12. David Buckman (2006). Artists in Britain Since 1945 Vol 1, A to L. Art Dictionaries Ltd. ISBN 0 953260 95 X.
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