Grace Digby Explained

Grace Digby
Birth Date:1895
Birth Place:Scarborough in North Yorkshire
Death Date:1964
Nationality:British
Occupation:Artist, jewellery designer

Grace Digby (1895–1964) was a British artist, notable as a landscape painter and jewellery designer.

Biography

Digby was born at Scarborough in North Yorkshire and studied in Brussels.[1] She was educated at the Brussels Academie and Conservatoire and also studied painting at the atelier of Blanc Garin.[2] During her career she made jewellery, painted landscapes in both oils and watercolours and designed posters.[2] Digby was also a talented violinist, and won medals in competitions in Brussels and Tournai.[2]

Digby exhibited at the Royal Academy in London, at the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool, with the Royal Cambrian Academy and also in Europe, the United States and in Australia.[1] Between 1948 and 1964 she was a regular exhibitor with the Society of Women Artists and was a full member of the Society from 1961.[2]

Digby lived in Birmingham during her adult life and exhibited with both the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists and the Birmingham Art Circle and also had a solo exhibition in the city during 1925.[2] The Imperial War Museum has her oil painting, After the Shelling, Louvain 1914 in its collection.[3]

Notes and References

  1. Book: David Buckman. Art Dictionaries Ltd. 2006. Artists in Britain Since 1945 Vol 1, A to L . 0-953260-95-X.
  2. Book: Sara Gray. Dark River. 2019. British Women Artists. A Biographical Dictionary of 1000 Women Artists in the British Decorative Arts . 978-1-911121-63-3.
  3. Web site: After the Shelling, Louvain. Imperial War Museum . 26 January 2022.