Wyre Dock
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Research by Veronica McDonnell & Marjorie Gregson
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Acc No 275
Artist Kathleen Alicia Annette White Artist dates 1922-1987 Medium oil on canvas Size unknown Date painted unknown Donor Lytham St Annes Art Society Date donated 25 May 2017 |
Kathleen White
ARTIST
Kathleen Alicia Annette White was born in Preston in 1922 to Charles, a draper manager, and Louise, nee Newton. She was a pupil at the prestigious Park School, Preston and studied at the Lancaster School of Art. Her brother, Geoffrey Noel Platts White, qualified as a solicitor. 
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In 1939 she was living at Park View, Arnside Road, Preston and this sketch, 'Park View, Broughton Village', depicts her home. 
This photograph of members of the Lytham St Annes Art Society was taken on the 18 August, 1951 at the opening of the 31st Annual Exhibition of the Lytham St Annes Art Society.
Kathleen, who was later to become Secretary of the Lytham St Annes Art Society, is the small figure in the foreground.Also in the photo are Patricia Arnold, artist - check out her paintings in the Collection, Alderman Dawson and his wife,T A Clarke, who donated The Windmill, Lytham by H Partington,Mr Howe, President, and the then famous conductor of the St Annes Pier Orchestra, Lionel Johns. |
Suffolk Farm, Peter Scott Gallery
She exhibited in numerous Northern galleries and in London, including one with Tony Bates at Preston’s Gallery, Bolton in 1964. A lino print, 'A Scene at Wrea Green', was hung in The Royal Society of Painters, Etchers and Engravers gallery in London and a scraper board depicting a scene at Ribby, near Wrea Green, was exhibited in The Lancashire Scene at Salford Art Gallery. Her pictures were purchased by Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal, Bradford Education Committee and by private collectors in England and the USA. The French magazine, 'Revu Moderne', reviewed her work, making particular mention of her Still Life with Coffee Pot, which had been shown in a Manchester Academy exhibition. An oil painting of a street scene on the Fylde coast entitled Sunday Morning was exhibited in the Manchester City Art Gallery. In 1966, when visiting the Belgrade Theatre restaurant in Coventry, she obtained permission to exhibit and sell 25 of her oil paintings. The Coventry Standard wrote that she “works in bold form stressing the design quality of landscapes and even portraits by accentuating outlines". 
Her brother, Geoffrey, owned the picture Wyre Dock and this was later presented to the Collection by the Lytham St Annes Art Society. Kathleen, who lived for a time in Albany Road, died in a nursing home in Stratford in 1987.
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