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Evelyn Abelson, née Levy, (1886 – 7 March 1967) was a British painter.

Biography

Abelson was born in London and was educated at Campden Hill School and at Queen's College, London. She studied art at Heatherley School of Fine Art. From the 1920s until her death in 1967 Abelson was a regular exhibitor of landscape paintings, still-life subjects plus architectural subjects and city street scenes, often of London. She frequently exhibited such oil paintings at the Royal Academy between 1933 and 1963. Abelson was also, beginning in 1925, a regular exhibitor with the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts in Paris. She also exhibited with the New English Art Club and the Royal Society of British Artists. She was a member of the Society of Women Artists from 1936 onwards and showed a total of 88 works at their exhibitions. Abelson lived in London for many years and her depiction of Trafalger Square is held by the British Government Art Collection.

References

1. Grant M. Waters. Dictionary of British Artists Working 1900-1950 Volume II. Eastbourne Fine Art. ISBN 0902010 06 9.
2. ^ Sara Gray (2009). The Dictionary of British Women Artists. The Lutterworth Press. ISBN 97807 18830847.
3. ^ David Buckman (2006). Artists in Britain Since 1945 Vol 1, A to L. Art Dictionaries Ltd. ISBN 0 953260 95 X.
4. Benezit Dictionary of Artists Volume 1 A-Bedeschini. Editions Grund, Paris. 2006. ISBN 2 7000 3070 2.
5. Grant M. Waters (1975). Dictionary of British Artists Working 1900-1950. Eastbourne Fine Art.
6. "Government Art Collection, Evelyn Abelson". Department of Culture, Media & Sport. Archived from the original on 11 September 2018. Retrieved 10 September 2018.

External links

• 1 artwork by or after Evelyn Abelson at the Art UK site

• 1886 births
• 1967 deaths
• 20th-century English painters
• 20th-century English women artists
• Alumni of the Heatherley School of Fine Art
• Painters from London
• English women painters
• People educated at Queen's College, London
• 20th-century British women painters