On Loan

Kathleen Guthrie (1905 - 1981)

Verticals, circa 1970

SKU: 11399

Signed and titled in pencil, “Verticals”  Kathleen Guthrie.

Silkscreen print (35.3 x 48.5cm)

Sheet size (56 x 76 cm.) 

Number 15/15

Size:
Height – 353cm
Width – 485cm

DESCRIPTION

Provenance:
The Artist’s Estate
Presentation:
folio

Literature:  A Poet’s Eye, The Paintings of Kathleen Guthrie, Jonathan Eastaway, Cartmel Press, 1999, p. 43

Issued in an edition of 15

In the 1970’s  Guthrie embarked on a series of bold abstract paintings and silk screen prints which she referred to as her “Camelot” series.  Although the prints were usually preceded by oils or collage with gouache the Camelot series evolved mostly around the possibilities offered by silkscreen printing where layers of pure colour could be laid over one and another without bleeding or distortion.   Guthrie was introduced to the technique of silk screen printing as early as 1954, by Linnet Guthrie, the daughter of her first husband Robin – by the early 1970’s she had mastered the art and become one of the most accomplished practitioners of any generation.  Her early prints, like her paintings of the period, where semi abstract stylised decorative conversation pieces, such as The Pram (1954) or Two under one hat (1954).  At the beginning of the 1960’s,  after her husband  Cecil Stephenson suffered a stroke and was no longer able to paint, Guthrie launched into pure abstract painting.  From the textured, soft edged and muted palette of the 1960’s she progressed towards a hard geometric style which was increasingly inspired by her husband’s work.  She used the medium of silk screen printing both to reproduce some of the iconic abstracts of Stephenson from the 1930’s (From a painting in Egg Tempera by Cecil Stephenson, 1936) through to abstract reproducing compositions with daring colour combinations of her own design, such as seen in the Camelot series.  The silk screen prints are almost always most successful than the large oil paintings which preceded them.

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THE ARTIST

Kathleen Guthrie
Kathleen
Guthrie
1905 - 1981

Kathleen Guthrie (1905-1981) studied at the Slade School under Henry Tonks, (1922-24) and at the Royal College of Art (1925). At the Slade she met Robin Guthrie (1902-1971) whom she married in 1927. In 1930 Robin Guthrie and Rodney Burn (1899-1984), a fellow student from the Slade, were invited, on the recommendation of Tonks, to go to America and become co-directors of the Boston School of Fine Art. This two year appointment allowed Kathleen to see the New England countryside, especially around Wilmington, Vermont, where they spent the summer vacations. In 1932 she had a solo show of figure paintings and landscapes at Boston’s Stace Home Gallery.

From the 1930’s onwards Kathleen exhibited widely, especially at The New English Art Club and The Royal Academy. Her work from this period, which consisted mostly of still-lifes, landscapes and genre scenes, was painted in a whimsical figurative style.

In 1941, following the breakdown of her marriage to Robin Guthrie, Kathleen married Cecil Stephenson, a member of the group of constructivist artists led by Ben Nicholson. From this point on her work moved increasingly towards abstraction. In the 1960’s she embarked on her Camelot Series, bold, hard-edged compositions of contrasting forms arranged as pure fields of colour. These formed the main body of work exhibited in 1963 at the New End Gallery and her retrospective at the Drian Galleries in 1966.

In the mid 1960’s Kathleen was introduced to silk screen printing and become one the most accomplished practitioners of her generation. The main body of these works were inspired by paintings from her Camelot series and Stephenson’s iconic images including Egg Tempera 1936 and Egg Tempera 1937.

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EXHIBITION LIST

Individual exhibitions:
1932 Grace Horne Gallery, Boston, USA 1947 Little Gallery, Piccadilly, London 1951 Kalman Gallery, Manchester
1963 New End Gallery, Hampstead, London 1966 Drian Gallery, London 1968 The Art Gallery, Brighton
1968/69 Trentham Gallery, Emsworth, Hampshire 1970 Forge Gallery, Cookham, Middlesex
1972 Erica Bourne Gallery, Golders Green, London 1974 Camden Arts Centre, Finchley, London 1977 Coach House Gallery, Guernsey 1977 Centaur Gallery, Highgate, London

Group exhibitions(WIAC, Free Painters, Hampstead Artists Council, London Group, etc.), at: King Street Gallery, Cambridge
AIA Gallery, London
New Vision Centre, London
FBA Gallery, Suffolk Street, London (WIAC & FP)
Gallery Greuze, Paris, France
Pittsburgh, USA
Galleria Numero, Florence (WIAC)

Mixed exhibitions, at:
London Galleries: Goupil Gallery, Royal Academy, National Gallery (war pictures official purchase), London Group, Redfern Gallery, Leicester Galleries, Gimpel Fils, Whitechapel Art Gallery (Guggenheim Award Exhibition), Drian Gallery
Others: Galerie HervŽ , Paris; Leicestershire County Hall

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