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Ethel Gabain @ Fine Art Society

1 February 2017 - 28 February 2017

Ethel Gabain (1883-1950) learned lithography as a student at Central School of Arts and Crafts in London and it remained her principal medium in a long career. Also a painter and etcher, her work has recently attracted renewed interest for her achievements as an Official War Artist in the Second World War.  Young women recur as her subjects and her vision shows an abiding interest in the feminine and the domestic. The women sometimes inhabit spaces that are vast and suffocating. In others, her figures appear bold, sometimes impertinent, and convey the impression of subjects feeling themselves to be free.  As an Official War Artist during the Second World War she was given the task of depicting British women workers. Her lithographs celebrate robust and determined women working together. Gabain was able to emphasise both their feminity and their bravery, grasping their personal emotion in the collective action.

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Start:
1 February 2017
End:
28 February 2017
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The Fine Art Society
148 New Bond Street
London, W1S 2JT United Kingdom
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