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Mary Potter Art

British, 1900-1981

Mary Potter, OBE was an English painter whose best-known work uses a restrained palette of subtle colors. After studying at the Slade School of Fine Art, Potter began her career, exhibiting in London by the early 1920s. From the 1950s, her work became increasingly abstract and she gained wider notice. Born Mary Attenborough in Beckenham, she upset her parents by choosing painting from her many talents. While at Slade, she was awarded first prize for portrait painting and a place in the New English Art Club exhibition. She then decided that she was working to a formula and ceremonially burned all her portraits. Mary, later, married writer Stephen Potter and with two children, continued to paint as she wished. It was while living by the Thames in Chiswick from 1927 that she began to dabble with the watery vision which she would explore for the rest of her life. An early member of The London Group, Mary Potter also showed allegiance to the Seven and Five Society. In 1951, the Potter family moved to Aldeburgh, and it was this Suffolk fishing town that was to provide the inspiration for her finest art. After her divorce in 1955, her great friendship with the founders of the Aldeburgh Festival, Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears, led to them swapping houses for six years. This was so that she could paint overlooking the sea from Crag House. During her isolation, she painted to ever greater acclaim by paring down her vision, thinning her paint, blurring outlines and abolishing the horizon line.

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Artist: Mary Potter
House Through Trees, Oil on Canvas Painting by Mary Potter, 1950s circa
By Mary Potter
Located in Kingsclere, GB
House Through Trees, Oil on Canvas Painting by Mary Potter, 1950s circa Additional information: Medium: Oil on canvas 30 x 41 cm 11 3/4 x 16 1/8 in Signed and titled on the canvas o...
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20th Century Mary Potter Art

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Golfers in the Rain I (The Fourteenth Hole), Oil on Canvas Painting, 1956 circa
By Mary Potter
Located in Kingsclere, GB
Golfers in the Rain I (The Fourteenth Hole), Oil on Canvas Painting, 1956 circa Additional information: Medium: Oil on canvas 50.8 x 63.5 cm 20 x 25 in A similar composition, Trees...
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20th Century Mary Potter Art

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A Rough Sea, Aldeburgh, Oil on Canvas Painting by Mary Potter, 1958 circa
By Mary Potter
Located in Kingsclere, GB
A Rough Sea, Aldeburgh, Oil on Canvas Painting by Mary Potter, 1958 circa Additional information: Medium: Oil on canvas 61 x 50.8 cm 24 x 20 in Signed verso This view is of the shi...
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20th Century Mary Potter Art

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Reflections II (Light Through Leaves), Oil on Canvas Painting, 1965-69 circa
By Mary Potter
Located in Kingsclere, GB
Reflections II (Light Through Leaves), Oil on Canvas Painting, 1965-69 circa Additional information: Medium: Oil on canvas 16 1/8 x 20 in 41 x 51 cm Living in the grounds of the Re...
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20th Century Mary Potter Art

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