Exhibition – Ben Uri Gallery 2023
‘Sheer Verve’ The Women’s International Art Club 1898-1978
A WIAC exhibition at the Ben Uri Gallery, September 13th to December 15th 2023, presented a snapshot of the WIAC’s radical artistic output over seven decades. Encompassing paintings, drawings, sculpture, prints and lithographs depicts landscapes, interiors, still life, figures and abstracts in all their “astonishing variety”, as reviewed in 1960 by Barbara Wright in Art News & Review.
Artists include: Eileen Agar, Gillian Ayres, Wilhelmina Barns-Graham, Vanessa Bell, Prunella Clough , Ithell Colquhoun, Helen Frankenthaler, Elisabeth Frink, Barbara Hepworth, Gwen John, Marlow Moss, Winifred Nicholson, Paula Rego, Anne Estelle Rice, Ethel Sands and Stella Steyn.
Ben Uri artists: Janina Baranowska, Sandra Blow, Ruth Collet, Sonia Delaunay, Amy Drucker, Zena Flax, Lily Delissa Joseph, Elsa Fraenkel, Dora Gordine, Clara Klinghoffer, Laura Knight, Halina Korn, Margaret Marks, Anna Mayerson, Else Meidner, Erna Nonnenmacher, Lena Pillico, Orovida (née Pissarro), Adèle Reifenberg, Lotti Reizenstein, Ottilie Tolansky and Katerina Wilczynski.
See link below for a series of online talks linked to the Sheer Verve exhibition
https://benuri.org/exhibitions/82-sheer-verve-the-women-s-international-art-club-18981978/events/
See link below for a 3D virtual presentation of the exhibition: