Proposed fitments for day nurseries,

Adshead (Mary)

Proposed fitments for day nurseries,

carried out in plywood and fixed to walls of nursery.

Description: one sheet featuring four brightly coloured images, illustrating a measuring tower, a corner house, an activities clock, and a circulating seasonal picture board, each annotated with explanatory notes in pencil, image 36.5 x 54.4cm, framed and glazed, 55 x 70.5 cm, watercolour, bodycolour and pencil,

Publication Details: c.1937

Notes: Having trained at the Slade School (enrolling in 1921 at the age of 16), Mary Adshead rapidly proved to be an accomplished muralist. Her commissions included designs for a Wapping boy's club, in collaboration with Rex Whistler, Lord Beaverbrook's dining room (not completed due to Beaverbrook's realization that he didn't want to be surrounded by portraits of friends he might fall out with), the Victoria Pier auditorium at Colwyn Bay, Selfridge's fourth-floor restaurant, the British Pavilion at the 1937 Paris International Exhibition and Bank Underground Station. Given the somewhat ephemeral nat...more

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Price: £725

Subject: Art & Architecture

Published Date: c.1937

Stock Number: 69205

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