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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
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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.
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