Best known for her illustrations of the book, “ Black
Beauty”, a story about the life of a horse and the abuse it
suffered, it is maybe not so well known that the artist
Lucy Kemp – Welch spent her life creating powerful and heartfelt images of horses on a grand scale, which brought her success at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th
centuries but not the fame she deserved.
In this talk Catherine Wallace includes the wide range of settings for these equestrian paintings and Kemp-Welch’s use of various techniques. Whether her subjects were at work
ploughing the fields or hauling timber, being used to launch lifeboats, or pull guns and charge at the enemy on the battlefields, Kemp -Welch painted horses on a scale and in a
way that competed with and surpassed many of her male rivals. Wallace looks at the challenges Kemp – Welch frequently faced as a female artist in an a traditionally male dominated subject area of art and compares their works. This lecture also includes the paintings by some of the students taught by Kemp Welch when she ran the Bushey School of Art from 1906 – 1926 as well as her later paintings depicting the circus and race horses.Cost £14 or £70 for all 6 monthly lectures. visit
https://cathwallace.co.uk/art-history-lectures-2/ to book. or email
Y2F0aGVyaW5ld2FsbGFjZTIgfCBpY2xvdWQgISBjb20= to pay by BACS or send a cheque to Pendarves, Tremough Dlae, Penryn TR10 8JA.
You may also like the following events from Cornish Art History:
- Next month, 11th September, 10:30 am, Hidden Depths - Discovering the Art Collection of Cornwall Museum and Art Gallery, A Study Morning in Truro
- Next month, 16th September, 09:30 am, Lecture:The art Collection of Cornwall Museum and Art Gallery in Penryn, Cornwall
- Next month, 30th September, 09:30 am, Lecture 1. A Romantic Idyll -Turner’s Views of Devon& Cornwall. On Zoom/Youtube in Penryn, Cornwall
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