Elsie Vera Cole
Elsie Vera Cole (27 July 1885 - 2 January 1967) was an English painter, engraver and art teacher.[1]
Biography
Cole was born in Braintree in Essex to the congregational minister William Cole and his wife Ellen née Holmes.[1] Cole went to school in Gravesend in Kent and studied at the Norwich School of Art from 1908 to 1910.[2] She went on to study at the Chelmsford School of Art, completing her studies in 1919.[2] Cole then returned to the Norwich School of Art to take a teaching position at and continued to teach there until 1941.[3] Living in Norwich she produced A Sketch book of Norwich which was published in 1920.[4] Cole travelled and painted widely in Britain and Europe.[3] She exhibited with the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours, the Society of Women Artists, the Royal West of England Academy in Bristol and with the Norwich Art Circle.[2] From 1933 she was also a regular exhibitor with the Ipswich Art Club.[1] Cole died at Diss in Norfolk in 1967.[1]
References
- ^ a b c d "COLE, Elsie Vera". Suffolk Painters. Retrieved 21 August 2018.
- ^ a b c David Buckman (2006). Artists in Britain Since 1945 Vol 1, A to L. Art Dictionaries Ltd. ISBN 0 953260 95 X.
- ^ a b Grant M. Waters (1975). Dictionary of British Artists Working 1900-1950. Eastbourne Fine Art.
- ^ Frances Spalding (1990). 20th Century Painters and Sculptors. Antique Collectors' Club. ISBN 1 85149 106 6.