What is Frances Hodgkins?

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Frances Mary Hodgkins (28 April 1869 - 13 May 1947) was a New Zealand abstract painter who lived in England for much of her life..

Life

Hodgkins was born in Dunedin, New Zealand in 1869, the daughter of W.M. Hodgkins a lawyer, amateur painter and principal figure in the city's art circles. She first exhibited in 1890, although she felt overshadowed by her sister, Isobel.

After early success as a watercolourist she went on to become one of the leading artists of British Modernism.In 1893 she became a student under Girolamo Nerli. In 1895-96 she attended Dunedin school of art.

In the early 1900s she travelled and worked in many countries including England, France, Holland and Morocco, returning to Wellington (NZ) in 1903. In 1904 Hodgkins became engaged to an Englishman, T. Boughton Wilby, after the briefest of courtships, and planned to go overseas to marry him, but the engagement was broken off at the last moment for unknown reasons. Dissatisfied with teaching, she returned to London in 1906. Her first solo show was in London in 1907. In 1911-12 she taught at Colarossi's academy in Paris.

Around 1901 she began a friendship with artist Dorothy Kate Richmond (1860-1935), whom she described as "the dearest woman with the most beautiful face and expression. I am a lucky beggar to have her as a travelling companion." [1]

The two probably met at the studio of painter Girolamo Nerli, an itinerant Italian painter who taught Hodgkins and inspired her first successes. In 1903 she opened her own studio in Wellington, and in 1904 hosted a joint exhibition with Richmond. Among Hodgkins' pupils at her studio were artists Edith Kate Bendall, lesbian lover of Katherine Mansfield. Richmond was a great influence on the art of Hodgkins, although eventually their relationship faded to the point of nonexistence. She would become involved with other women of the time, but none that maintained the lifelong influence of Richmond.

In 1929 she joined the seven and five society and worked alongside younger artists like Barbara Hepworth, Ben Nicholson and Henry Moore. She continued to paint into her seventies, despite suffering from rheumatism and bronchitis.

Hodgkins is most admired for the freely painted works of her later life. She died in Dorchester, Dorset, in 1947.

References

The Expatriate a biography by E. H. McCormick (1954, New Zealand University Press, Wellington)

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No official anthem specific to England — the anthem of the United Kingdom is "God Save the Queen".
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William Mathew Hodgkins (1833 - 1898) was a 19th century New Zealand painter.

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Barbara Hepworth DBE (January 10, 1903 – May 20, 1975, christened Jocelyn Barbara Hepworth) was a major British sculptor and artist of the twentieth century. She is considered as great a sculptor as her contemporary and friend Henry Moore.
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Benjamin Lauder Nicholson OM, (10 April 1894 – 6 February 1982), known as Ben Nicholson, was an English abstract painter

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Sir Henry Spencer Moore OM CH FBA, (30 July 1898 – 31 August 1986) was a British artist and sculptor. The son of a mining engineer, born in the Yorkshire town of Castleford, Moore became well known for his larger-scale abstract cast bronze and carved marble sculptures.
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