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Margaret Green
The Washing Line
1925-2003
Oil on board, monogrammed verso
Image size: 12 1/2 x 15 1/3 inches (31.9 x 38.7 cm)
Contemporary-style handmade frame
This humble scene depicts a young girl peering over a fence to amuse a young child, sat upright in a pram. A male figure watches on in the background, supervising the two children. Washing lines cut across the sky above the figures’ heads, whilst a row of 1930s-era semi-detached houses provides a backdrop to the scene. Clearly, this painting depicts a snapshot of post-war life as experienced by the artist.
The colours are vivid and bright, creating a light and airy scene. As with the other works of Margaret Green, there is a strong sense of nostalgia present, created by the warm tones of her palette.
Margaret Green
Margaret Green was born in Hartlepool in 1925, and showed an early affinity for art which was only accentuated after she met artist Patrick Heron on a family holiday. She was encouraged by her family to pursue art, and after graduating from Hartlepool Art School, she won a scholarship to study at the Royal College of Art at its wartime home in the Lake District.
Green was a highly successful student at the Royal College of Art, where she was taught by Ruskin Spear and Carel Wright. During her studies, Green won plenty of awards and prizes for her art. One such prize was a travelling scholarship around France and Ireland, an undertaking that she completed with fellow artist Lionel Bulmer, whom she had met at the Royal College and who would later become her husband. The two moved to Chelsea after the war, painting images of everyday postwar life in London. Both artists took up supplementary jobs as teachers in art schools, with Green working between an art school in Walthamstow and the Royal Academy schools.
Green and Bulmer took regular trips to Sussex to paint the countryside there. Becoming increasingly enamored with rural scenery, Green and Bulmer moved to a medieval hall house in the Suffolk countryside, renovating the house into an artist’s paradise where they produced many paintings, often working in the same small room together. They travelled to Walberswick and Southwold to paint beach scenes, and often exhibited these at the New English Art Club. As well as exhibiting with the NEAC, Green showed her works with the Royal Academy, the London Group, William Ware Gallery, Fulham Gallery, the South London Gallery, and Leicester Gallery. Eventually, Green had a solo exhibition at the New Grafton Gallery in 1972.
Green’s bond with Bulmer was so strong that their artistic styles began to become indistinguishable. To mitigate this, Bulmer decided to experiment with pointilism, and Margaret began to use cooler tones within her works and her paintings became gradually smaller in size.
The two lived a happy life in their artist’s paradise, making their own wine and farming their own garden, until Bulmer passed away in 1992. Green was so overtaken with grief that she never produced another painting. A retrospective of both artists was held in 2002 at Messum Fine Art and recounted the journey of both of the artists from London to Suffolk.
Green passed away in 2003. Her work is held in public galleries in Leeds, Coventry, Nottingham, the Tate Britain, and Hartlepool.
- Creator:Margaret Green (1925 - 2003, British)
- Dimensions:Height: 15.33 in (38.94 cm)Width: 12.5 in (31.75 cm)
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- Gallery Location:London, GB
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU52416980722
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