Private
Collection
Collection
Marjorie Hayes
(1913 - 2005)
Church Steps in Minehead Somerset, 1937
Private Collection
Marjorie Hayes (1913 - 2005)
Signed, with title on label to reverse
Tempera on board
Size:
Height – 56cm
Width – 81cm
Exhibited:The Mall Galleries (The Federation of British Artists), n.d.
This
painting seems to be very much in the spirit of The Shape of Things to
Come, H.G.Wells’s epic science-fiction chronicle published in 1933,
which predicted the SecondWorldWar . Speculating about the future,Wells
presented a new world order in which air torpedoes and an association of
pilots and technicians (Air and Sea Control) reshaped the world’s
communications and systems of government.
Hayes might also have
been inspired by Baron von Koenig-Warthausen account,Wings Over theWorld
(1930), in which the 23-year-old German Baron described his epic
journey around the world in a Klemm-Daimler D-1433.
Marjorie Hayes studied at the Royal College of Art in the 1930’s.
She excelled in the design of clothes and handicrafts and established
her own commercial design and bespoke clothes business. She also
contriubted regularly to Queen Magazine, illustrated children’s
books. She exhibited at the Society of Women Artists, (over 50
works from 1936-1972), Royal Insitute Galleries and the Royal
Academy. Her father was also a painter Albert Edward Hayes
(1879-1968)
With thanks to artbiogs.co.uk
