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Margaret Mellis

Margaret Mellis (1914 - 2009) was active/lived in United Kingdom, China.  Margaret Mellis is known for Painting, relief sculpture.

Margaret Mellis (1914-2009)

Born at Wu-Kung-Fu, China on 22 January 1914, to a Presbyterian missionary father, spending her first birthday on the boat returning the family to their native Scotland five months after the outbreak of the first world war.  Switching from piano studies to painting, at the age of 15 Margaret entered Edinburgh College of Art where her teachers included the Scottish colourist Samuel John Peploe (1871-1935) and fellow students were William Gear (1915-1997) and Wilhelmina Barns-Graham (1912-2004).  She went to Paris on a scholarship to train with André Lhote (1871-1935) and when returning there for a Cézanne exhibition in 1936 met Adrian Stokes (1902-1972), an established art theorist and emergent painter with magnetic looks and charm.  They married two years later, and visited Ezra Pound during their Italian honeymoon.  Margaret and Adrian searched for a coastal refuge from the predicted bombing of London and the discovery of their id   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 7006 characters.]  Artist bio

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Margaret Mellis (1914-2009)

Born at Wu-Kung-Fu, China on 22 January 1914, to a Presbyterian missionary father, spending her first birthday on the boat returning the family to their native Scotland five months after the outbreak of the first world war.  Switching from piano studies to painting, at the age of 15 Margaret entered Edinburgh College of Art where her teachers included the Scottish colourist Samuel John Peploe (1871-1935) and fellow students were William Gear (1915-1997) and Wilhelmina Barns-Graham (1912-2004).  She went to Paris on a scholarship to train with André Lhote (1871-1935) and when returning there for a Cézanne exhibition in 1936 met Adrian Stokes (1902-1972), an established art theorist and emergent pa  ...  Displaying 750 of 7006 characters.

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