[Watercolor design for the cover of Virginia Woolf's The common reader] ca. 1925 / [Vanessa Bell]

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[Watercolor design for the cover of Virginia Woolf's The common reader] ca. 1925 / [Vanessa Bell]

Watercolor (preliminary) design by Bell for the cover of Woolf's The common reader published in 1925 by The Hogarth Press.

1 art original : watercolor on paper ; 21 x 14 cm.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7970306

Smith College, Neilson Library

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Bell, Vanessa, 1879-1961

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Vanessa Bell was born in 1879, daughter of Sir Leslie Stephen and sister of Virginia Woolf. She studied art under Sir Arthur Cope and at the Royal Academy Schools under John Singer Sargent. In 1907 she married Clive Bell and worked mainly in London, Sussex and France. Vanessa Bell exhibited first at the New Gallery in 1905, and at the New English Art Club, the Allied Artists Association and at numerous London galleries. She became a member of the London Group in 1919 and her work was exhibited a...

Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941

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Virginia Woolf (b. January 25, 1882, London, England–d. March 28, 1941, Ouse, River, Englnad) was a noted novelist and is now viewed as a pioneer of feminist literature. She was a member of the Bloomsbury Group, comprised of English artists, philosophers, and writers in the early twentieth century. She was also a co-founder and operator (along with husband Leonard Woolf) of Hogarth Press. Though she received little formal education, her father, a writer and editor with strong ...