Design for Chair Seat

1922

Not on view

Vanessa Bell was the older sister of Virginia Woolf. Her reputation as a painter began to ascend after the first London Artists Association exhibition in 1926. The early watercolor shows her closeness to the Bloomsbury Group, who produced both fine art and decorative arts. Worn down by the demands of running a huge household, she devoted less and less time to painting

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Title: Design for Chair Seat
Artist: Vanessa Stephen Bell (British, London 1879–1961 Charleston, Firle, Sussex)
Date: 1922
Medium: Watercolor and charcoal on paper
Dimensions: 15 × 16 in. (38.1 × 40.6 cm)
Classification: Drawings
Credit Line: Gift of Bannon and Barnabas McHenry, 2018
Object Number: 2018.886.1
Curatorial Department: Modern and Contemporary Art

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