Cecil Jospé

Cecil Jospé ( Weiner; August 15, 1928 – May 17, 2004) was an American photographer and watercolorist. A bachelor of arts graduate in art history and the theory and practice and drawing and painting from Harvard University's Radcliffe College, she exhibited her work in photography at The Photographers' Gallery. Jospé was elected a member of the Chelsea Art Club, the Royal Watercolour Society, the New English Art Club and exhibited her art work at the latter two societies.

Biography She was born Cecil Weiner on August 15, 1928, in New Jersey. She was given the name Cecil after her aunt, Cecil Mosbacher (1934): First female judge in Alameda County, California (1951). Jospé graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1951. She lived in New York in the early 1950 and was a representational painter when abstract expressionists emerged within the art world. Jospé's marriage and the birth of her three children stopped her from working as a creative artist until she enrolled on a part-time degree in professional photography at the Polytechnic of Central London (now the University of Westminster).

Eventually, she ceased to work in photography and returned to her first interest of painting; she focused mainly on watercolours. and the New English Art Club two years later.

Personality

Simon Fenwick in The Independent described her as "stylish and articulate" and said several prominent members of the Analytical Psychology Club of London entertained by her family at her home. Her obituarist in The Times noted Jospé was attracted to "an aesthetic of precision, order and simplicity" in a desire "to learn when to stop and how not to over-elaborate or take a picture too far into the realm of the overwrought and fussy."