About Elsa Vaudrey
Lived 1905 – 1990 (aged 84–85). Elsa Vaudrey was a painter.
Elsa Vaudrey or Elsa Vaudrey Barker-Mill (1905-1990) was a British painter. Vaudrey née Dun was born in Glasgow, Scotland in 1905. She attended the Glasgow School of Art. During World War II she was involved with the administration of the Stonefield Maternity Home located in London, known for promoting a vegetarian diet for its clientele. Vaudrey exhibited often at The Redfern Gallery, including a solo show in 1957. She died in 1990 the same year that the Fine Art Society held an exhibit of her later paintings.
In 2023 her work was included in the exhibition Action, Gesture, Paint: Women Artists and Global Abstraction 1940-1970 at the Whitechapel Gallery in London.
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Who was Elsa Vaudrey?
British artist
When was Elsa Vaudrey born?
Elsa Vaudrey was born in 1905.
When did Elsa Vaudrey die?
Elsa Vaudrey died in 1990.
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Elsa Vaudrey was a painter.
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