About Esmé Currey
Lived 1881 – 1973 (aged 91–92). Esmé Currey was a painter and printmaker.
Esmé Mary Evelyn Currey (March 1881 – June 1973) was a British artist, known for her printmaking and for her paintings.
Biography Currey was born at Kensington in London and was privately educated both there and in Dresden after which she returned to London to study at the Slade School of Fine Art. She then studied with the artist Max Meldrum at Melbourne in Australia, before studying engraving at Goldsmiths' College in London. Currey established a studio in London and produced images, often of landscapes and architecture, in pencil, as etchings and as paintings in tempera. The British Museum in London holds two prints by Currey in its permanent collection.
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Who was Esmé Currey?
British artist (1881–1973)
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Esmé Currey was born in 1881 in Kensington.
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Esmé Currey died in 1973.
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Esmé Currey was a painter and printmaker.
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