Margaret Geddes Collection 1932-1998

Sitwell, Edith Louisa, Dame, 1887-1964

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Edith Sitwell was born on September 7, 1887 in Scarborough, England to Sir George Reresby Sitwell, fourth Baronet, and Lady Ida Emily Augusta Denison. In 1913, one of her earliest poems, “Drowned Suns”, was published in The Daily Mirror. Three years later, Sitwell began editing Wheels, an anthology of new verse that sparked controversy among conservative critics. In the 1920s, Sitwell and her two brothers, Osbert and Sacheverell Sitwell, became known for their avant-garde literary work. Sitwell ...

Society of Women Artists

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It is not certain exactly when and by whom the Society of Women Artists was founded. Earliest minutes, if kept, were lost or destroyed with other records at 195, Piccadilly, London during the Second World War. The Society's papers date from 1929. However, catalogues in the Victoria and Albert Museum Library show the Society of Female Artists held its first exhibition in 1857 at The Gallery, 315 Oxford Street, where 358 works were displayed by 149 female artists. The Society changed its name in 1...

Ilkley Art Club

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Westminster School of Art

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Pissaro, Orovida

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Geddes | Margaret, 1914-1998

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Margaret Geddes was born in 1914. She studied at the Westminster School of Art 1932-1937. She exhibited for the first time with the London group in 1938 and her work was shown at the Royal Academy in 1940. She became a member of the left-wing artists group Artists International Association in 1947. In 1948 she began a friendship with Edith Sitwell which resulted in a number of drawings and paintings of the well-known literary eccentric. She was elected Chairman of the Women's International Art C...

Belfast Royal Academy

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Women's International Art Club

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The Women's International Art Club was founded in Paris in 1900, as the Paris International Art Club. At this time there was very little opportunity for women to exhibit their art work, and as an exhibiting society the Club was instrumental in bringing the work of women sculptors and painters to the notice of the general public. The first exhibition under its new name was held at the Grafton Galleries in London in 1900. The Club had an annual exhibition of paintings and sculptures in London unti...

Artists International Association

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Geddes | Margaret, 1914-1998

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Margaret Geddes was born in 1914. She studied at the Westminster School of Art 1932-1937. She exhibited for the first time with the London group in 1938 and her work was shown at the Royal Academy in 1940. She became a member of the left-wing artists group Artists International Association in 1947. In 1948 she began a friendship with Edith Sitwell which resulted in a number of drawings and paintings of the well-known literary eccentric. She was elected Chairman of the Women's International Art C...