Leaves and Tree Trunk
Mary Potter (Beckenham 1900-1981)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1955 - 1960
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
390 x 750 mm
Order this imageCollection
Mottisfont, Hampshire
NT 769757
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Leaves and Tree Trunk, by Mary Potter (Beckenham 1900 - 1983), circa 1955-1960.
Full description
Oil painting on canvas, Leaves and Tree Trunk, by Mary Potter (Beckenham 1900 - 1983), circa 1955-1960. Mary Potter was a landscape and still life painter who won a scholarship to the Slade School of Art in 1919. She exhibited with the London Group from 1929, becoming a member in 1938. This work shows her distinctive palette of pale, delicate colours. She responded strongly to the light of the Suffolk coast. Mary moved to the Red House, Aldeburgh with her husband (the writer Stephen Potter) in 1951. They sold it to Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears, but a studio was built for Mary in the garden and she continued to paint there.
Provenance
Presented by Derek Hill (1916 - 2000) through The National Art Collections Fund (Art Fund), 1996
Credit line
Mottisfont Abbey,The Derek Hill Collection (presented to the National Trust through the National Art-Collections Fund in 1996)
Makers and roles
Mary Potter (Beckenham 1900-1981), artist