Margaret Gere

Fine Art Society, London, 1969;
Thomas Stainton;
Fine Art Society, London, August 1995

Cheltenham, Cheltenham Art Gallery & Museums, Margaret Gere Exhibition, 21 January - 3 March 1984, no.D2.

The sheet appears to be sound. Slight discolouring otherwise in good overall condition. Held under glass in simple gilt frame with brown mount; unexamined out of frame.
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Margaret Gere was born in Leamington Spa, Warwickshire and was the half-sister of the artist Charles March Gere, studying under him from 1897 at Birmingham Municipal School of Art. She studied at the Slade School of Fine Art in London and was a founder member of the Birmingham Group of Artist’s-Craftsmen. Gere joined other members of the Birmingham and Cotswold groups in joint exhibitions, and also held a number of one-man shows in Cheltenham and London. Amongst her wide circle of friends included Max Beerbohm, Alfred Munnings, Stanley Spencer and John Betjeman. She generally favoured working on a small scale, in tempera or watercolour, such as the present example.