SKU: 11132
Phyllis Ginger
(1907 - 2005)
Design for a Wedgwood Plate, circa 1944
£1,600
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Phyllis Ginger (1907 - 2005)
Size:
Height – 30cm
Width – 30cm
Ginger joined John Nash, S R Badmin, John Piper, in the Pilgrim Trust scheme Recording Britain. She also made designs for Wedgwood plates, though they never went into production 17 preparatory sketches for Wedgwood plate series, including general schemes and individual details; are in the collection of the Imperial War Museum, (IWM ART 17309)
We are grateful to Eleanor Henley for assistance
Painter, illustrator and etcher, born in New Malden, Surrey. She attended Richmond School of Art, 1932-35 where she studied under Stanley Badmin and the Central School of Arts & Crafts from 1937-39, where her main teacher was John Farleigh. Ginger was elected a member of the Senefelder Club in 1939 and joined the important AIA group of artists. Her ambition was to become a full-time illustrator, but during the war years she was retained by the Pilgrim Trust and her resulting work can be seen in the Recording Britain series.
