Mary V. Wheelhouse
Mary V. Wheelhouse (born around 1871 in Leeds ; died 1946 ) was a British painter, illustrator and suffragette.
Life
Mary V. Wheelhouse's life dates are not certain, the year of death is also given as 1947. She probably studied at the Scarborough School of Art around 1895 and then spent three years studying in Paris. Since 1900 she lived in Chelsea and for a while at the same address as the artist Louise Jacobs , with whom she offered children's toys at the 1916 Arts and Crafts exhibition. She illustrated a large number of books and books for young people, mainly by women writers, including Louisa May Alcott , May Baldwin , Charlotte Brontë , George Eliot , Juliana Horatia Ewing and Elizabeth Gaskell , Mary Elizabeth Phillips , Amy Steedman , and EV Lucas and Christoph von Schmid .,
Wheelhouse campaigned for women's suffrage and was a board member of the Artists' Suffrage League, founded in 1907 .
literature
- Lisa Tickner : The spectacle of women: imagery of the Suffrage Campaign 1907-14 . London: Chatto & Windus, 1987 ISBN 0-7011-2952-2 , p. 248
- Elizabeth Cawford: Art and suffrage: a biographical dictionary of suffrage artists . London: Francis Boutle Publishers, 2018 ISBN 9781999903732 (not viewed)
Web links
- Literature by and about Mary V. Wheelhouse in the WorldCat bibliographic database
Individual evidence
- ^ Mary V. Wheelhouse , at artblogs
- ↑ References to individual titles at WorldCat
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wheelhouse, Mary V. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British painter, illustrator and suffragette |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1871 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Leeds |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1946 |