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Alice Tennant
SOUTH AFRICAN (1890 - 1976)
FOREST STREAM
signed
mixed media on paper
sheet size : 34 x 28 cm
More on artist:
Born Alice Aubry; showed early talent for decorative craftwork in metal and leather; worked as a nurse in an evacuation hospital in Paris during WW1, drew and painted at night. Set up studio with her sister as interior decorator; illustrated periodicals; exhibited on Paris Salons; married Maj Douglas Tennant, 1922; came to SA; settled in a picturesque Cape-Dutch homestead at Jonkershoek, near Stellenbosh; exhibited at Asbeys Gal. Continued to work at crafts and book illustration; specialized in watercolour flower studies and informal drawings of children; traveled in SA and Swaziland, thereafter showing more landscapes and animal studies; for some time had a studio in Martin Melck House, CT.
(source: Esme Berman: Art & Artist of South Africa)
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