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BARBARA BLACKMORE FOWLER – FEMALE PORTRAIT

$226.00

Title: “Female Portrait”
Artist: Barbara Blackmore Fowler
Material: Watercolour & Pen
Picture Size: 42cm X 29cm
Year: 1992
Conditions: Very Good

Indian Ink 420x 290mm, never been framed. Clearly signed Barbara Blakemore Fowler and dated 1992 bottom right.
Colour 100%, never seen the light of day. Very top line of the hat has been changed by artist with a white watercolour and a different ink. Very hard to see.
New Zealand artist, Barbara Elizabeth Blakemore Fowler (1921-2004), studied at Canterbury School of Fine Arts, New Zealand over the span of nine years, attending night classes. Her tutors included Bill Sutton, Rudi Gopas, Russell Clark.
Clearly influenced by other great New Zealand female artists including Frances Hodgkins, Doris Lusk and Rita Angus.
Very Collectable.

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Author’s biography

Barbara Elizabeth Blakemore Fowler (1921-2004), studied at Canterbury School of Fine Arts, New Zealand over the span of nine years, attending night classes – while raising a family.  Her tutors included Bill Sutton, Rudi Gopas, Russell Clark and Ivy Fife.

At the same time she worked at the DSIR in geophysics and the US cosmic radiation program.  Barbara was a member of the Canterbury Society of Arts for forty years.