- BELL, Vanessa
(1879—1961)
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Painter
- Vanessa Bell was a British painter, sister of Virginia Woolf.
She studied at the RA and under Sargent, and lived
with Virginia and her
two
brothers in the house in Gordon Square, London, which became the nucleus
of the Bloomsbury group of writers and painters. In 1907 she married the art
critic Clive Bell, and she worked with Roger Fry in the Omega Workshops
1913-19. Her style reflects the influence of Cezanne, the Fauves, and Picasso's
Blue Period. Later it became more abstract, possibly as a result of her design
work and her fifty-year association with Duncan Grant.
There are works in
London (Tate, V&A, Courtauld Inst.) and Yale (CBA: Self-portrait). Lewes
Mus. is responsible for the Charleston Farm Mus., near Firle, which has a View
of Charleston Farmhouse of c.1950.
- Source: The Penguin Dictionary of Art and Artists (Penguin Reference Books)
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