MADELAINE
PEARSON (born 1910)
“Sahara
Town, Ghat”
Oil
Painting on Canvas. 18” x 24” (457mm x 610mm)
Titled on canvas overlap. Bears remains of Artist’s label IMAGE
Madelaine
Pearson studied at the Slade School of Fine Art in 1927/28 gaining her Fine Art
Diploma in 1930. She re-entered the
Slade in 1934/35 and again in 1936/37 leaving in 1938. She was a Member of the Womens’
International Art Club with whom she exhibited in Glasgow, Bristol and the
Malay States in 1949 and showed at the Leicester Galleries in 1950 as well as a
shared exhibition at the Artists’ International Association with Margaret Boyd
and Alice Lamb. She lived in Highgate,
North London and according to Simon Guthrie in his 1997 “The Life and Art of
Cecil Stephenson” her house was a “kind of salon” for artists and critics
including Kyffin Williams, Lawrence Alloway, Stella
Steyn, Frederick Gore and John Cecil Stephenson. Later she married as Madelaine Arkell.
