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Elizabeth Hyde Macmurray?Scottish Untitled c.1940 Signed Original Frame Gouache on canvas 60 x 49 cm Guide Price £1,250 56 Elizabeth (née Campbell) was born in 1891 in Banchory, Scotland. She studied English at Aberdeen University and, in 1916, married fellow Scot, the philosopher John Macmurray. In the late 1930s, she studied Fine Art at the School of Contemporary Painting in London, recently founded by the Australian artist Roy de Maistre and the German expressionist painter Martin Bloch, who having been denounced as a ‘degenerate artist’ fled Nazi Germany in 1934. The Macmurrays led a complex open marriage captured by Elizabeth in her 1935 autobiographically-inspired novel Out of the Earth. Although she is included in the art collector Geoff Hassell’s anthology of British and Irish Artists of the 20th Century, her work as an artist is relatively un-documented. She is remembered primarily for her work as a novelist for which she features in The Penguin History of Scottish Literature. Elizabeth died in 1982. The Art of Resistance? Defending Academic Freedom Lot 17