Additional information
| Country | British |
|---|---|
| Region | European |
ArtistSandys, Edwina
Artist Years1938-living
Artist NationalityBritish
TitlePear Trio
Year1997
MediumPaper Cut-Out
Dimensions14 X 24 inches
Description
Paper cut-out on heavy crimson paper with a white background, signed and dated with pen & ink.
NotesEdwina Sandys, MBE is an English artist and sculptor. She is the granddaughter of Winston Churchill. Sandys was a debutante, and was presented to Queen Elizabeth II. After attending a genteel girls’ school she went to Paris, then had a job "answering the doorbell" for a dress designer, and a stint as a secretary. She later became a Sunday Telegraph columnist and a novelist. Her career as an artist began in 1970. Sandys' work titled "Breakthrough", at Westminster College, Fulton, Missouri, features eight sections of the Berlin Wall. The college was the site of her grandfather Sir Winston Churchill's famous "Iron Curtain" speech in 1946 and is now the site of the National Churchill Museum. The silhouette cutouts from the Wall segments became the premise of another work, "BreakFree", displayed at the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum in Hyde Park, New York.