Eve Kirk
British painter
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Eve Kirk (22 July 1900 – 1969) was a British landscape and decorative painter.
Eve Kirk | |
|---|---|
| Born | 22 July 1900 London, England |
| Died | 1969 (aged 68–69) Siena, Italy |
| Education | Slade School of Fine Art |
| Known for | Painting |
Life and career
Kirk was born in London on 22 July 1900.[1] She studied at the Slade School of Fine Art from 1919 to 1922,[2] and later travelled to France, Italy and Greece.[1] Her first solo exhibition was at the Paterson Gallery in 1930.[3] Augustus John - who later painted her portrait - wrote an introduction to the exhibition catalogue[4] in which he said:
- "With a curious swiftness and certainty she has captured a method, a technique which seems to provide a perfect means for the interpretation of the subjects of her choice, the streets, the quays and the market-places of Provence, Italy or London."[5][6]
Kirk later exhibited at Arthur Tooth & Sons, in 1932 and 1935,[7][8] and alongside Paul Nash in 1939[6] and at the Lefevre Gallery in 1949.[1][3][9]
During the Second World War, Kirk worked for civil defence in London, but continued to paint and held an exhibition in 1943 at the Leicester Galleries.[10] Her painting Bomb Damage in the City was shown as part of the exhibition of National War Pictures at the Royal Academy of Arts in 1945.[6] She was commissioned to decorate the Roman Catholic Church of God The Holy Ghost, Penygloddfa in Newtown, Powys, in the mid-1940s.[1][11][12] In the mid-1950s she emigrated to Italy and ceased to paint.[3] She died in Siena in 1969.[1]