The South African Artist – July 2019

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ANSWERS TO THE QUICK ART QUIZ (PAGE 5)

Maud Sumner was born in 1902 in Johannesburg, South Africa. After

completing her schooling at Roedean in Johannesburg she studied

literature at Oxford University from 1922 to 1925. Sumner later

studied painting at the Westminster School of Art.

Attracted to the French art scene, Sumner moved to Paris in 1926,

where she studied for four years at the Academie de la Grande

Chaumière. She was part of the art movement called the Ateliers

d’Art Sacré, she loved the new style of painting taught by the masters

George Desvallieres and his co-founder Maurice Denis, where

everyday scenes were permeated with religious undertones.

Although she had been separated from the South African art world

she was invited by Walter Battiss to exhibit with the New Group in

1938. She was awarded the Medal of Honour by the Suid-Afrikaanse
      Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns in November 1971, accompanied
      by a sensationally successful “semi-retrospective” exhibition at the
      South African Association of Arts Gallery in Pretoria.

During her stay in Paris in 1978, she was diagnosed with Guillain–

Barré syndrome, Sumner died in early January 1985 at her home in

Melrose, Johannesburg.

MAUD FRANCES EYSTON SUMNER

SOUTH AFRICAN ARTIST 1902-1985

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A blossoming tree and house in a wooded

landscape; 58,5 x 48 cm; oil on canvas

Meditation, Zanzibar (1939)

99 x 93 cm; oil on canvas

Nature Morte

50 x 60 cm; oil on canvas

French Landscape

43 x 59 cm; charcoal and wash

Church

46,5 x 61,5 cm; watercolours

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A view of a park pathway and a swing

45,5 x 60 cm; charcoal and watercolour over pencil

Paysage, Écossais;

80 x 115 cm; oil on canvas

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Street scene in front of a church
33,5 x 35,5 cm; pen, ink & watercolour

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Flowers on a table infront of a window

60,5 x 45 cm; oil on canvas

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