Colquhoun, Ithell (1906–1988)
Colquhoun, Ithell (1906–1988)
English painter and poet. Born Oct 9, 1906, in Shillong, Assam, India; died April 11, 1988, in Cornwall, England; educated at Cheltenham College; studied art at Slade School and in Paris. Work in permanent collections: Tate Gallery, V&A Bradford, Cheltenham and Southampton Galleries, Glasgow and London universities.
Joined English Surrealist group (1939), but left the following year when pressured to abandon her work on occultism; her experiments in automatism resulted in decalcomania, sfumage, frottage; wrote The Crying Wind (1955), The Living Stones (1957), the Surrealist occult novel Goose of Hermogenes (1961), Grimoire of the Entangled Thicket (1973), Sword of Wisdom (1975), and travel books on Cornwall and Ireland.
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