Exhibition
Suzanne Cooper: Rediscovery of a Forgotten Artist
1 Apr 2019 – 6 Apr 2019
Event times
Mon-Fri 11.00-18.00 Sat 12.00-16.00.
Cost of entry
Free
Address
- 61 Westminster Bridge Road, (Entrance King Edward Walk)
- London
- SE1 7HT
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- Lambeth North
This exhibition will be the first time Suzanne Cooper’s beguiling pictures have been seen in London for seventy years.
About
In 1935, when she was a 19 year-old student, Suzanne Cooper was already showing in West End galleries and being singled out by critics as an ‘outstanding’ young artist.
In the next four years she produced over thirty oil paintings and a dozen wood-engravings, all of them distinguished by the striking originality of her vision. Her career was interrupted by World War II, and then by marriage and motherhood. She laid aside her artistic ambitions and stowed her canvasses under the spare-room bed. The art-world forgot her. She died in 1992.
In 2018 her work was rediscovered, with a solo show at the Fry Art Gallery greeted by reviewers as ‘revelatory’. Her strange, charming, gently surreal paintings have been likened to Christopher Wood’s, and her beautifully-executed engravings to Eric Ravilious’s.
