School of Art

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School of Art
Aberystwyth University
Buarth Mawr
Aberystwyth
Ceredigion
SY23 1NG

Tel: +44 (0)1970 622460

Fax: +44 (0)1970 622461

Email: artschool@aber.ac.uk


Display artist/maker:

Nora Spicer Unwin

Born: 1907, UK, England, Surrey, Surbiton   Died: 1982

Printmaker and illustrator. Daughter of publishers. Studied at the Brook Green School of Art run by Leon Underwood (1890-1975), 1923-25, Kingston School of Art, 1925-27, and the Royal College of Art, 1927-31. From 1933 to 1946 she taught part-time and worked as an illustrator before emigrating to America where she settled in Peterborough, New Hampshire. After travelling to Mexico, Iceland and Europe, 1956, she taught as head of the Art Department at Tenacre Country Day School, 1957-59, and as a part-time tutor of watercolour painting at the Manchester Institute of Arts and Sciences, 1962-63. She was elected a member of the Society of Wood Engravers in 1963. She illustrated over 100 books including work for the authors Elizabeth Yates and Enid Blyton

Objects in the collections associated with this artist/maker

Infant Joy PR715 Prints




 
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