ARTIST

Helen Saunders

1885–1963 · United Kingdom

Pioneering Vorticist who signed BLAST's manifesto and became one of Britain's first nonfigurative artists.

ABOUT

Helen Saunders (4 April 1885 – 1 January 1963) was an English painter associated with the Vorticist movement. == Biography == Helen Saunders (pronounced Saːnders) was born in Bedford Park, Ealing, London. When eighteen years' old she enrolled at a newly opened local studio run by Rosa Waugh Hobhouse who recognised her talent and encouraged her to study at the Slade School of Art which Saunders attended three days a week in 1907. She later attended the Central School of Arts…

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NOTABLE WORKS
Usk Valley Newport Museum and Art Gallery
INFLUENCES
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