Lithographs and paintings of biographical interest
After Gloucester Road, London Kensington, in 1918 Miss Tawse
moved to 44 Cheyne Walk, Chelsea. This coloured lithograph is
entitled 'Cheyne Walk — Chelsea' (top corner areas retouched).
'The Old Church — Chelsea' is another coloured lithograph she painted.
'Castle Hill — Cambridge' is another well-known coloured lithograph
Miss Tawse painted, suggesting that she will have stayed there.
This watercolour is entitled Cairo. Miss Tawse was
listed to sail to Port Said, Egypt, in February 1924.
Watercolour of Bath by Sybil Tawse, signed and dated Easter 1932.
The title page of Cranford signed and dated "Chelsea 6.xii.33."
The Victoria Art Gallery–Bath notes that Sybil Tawse was in Bath during
the war and painted street scenes while she was living there.
The gallery has this 1942 watercolour entitled St. James' After the Raids.
The Victoria Art Gallery–Bath also has this finely-detailed watercolour
entitled The Colonnade and Abbey Churchyard, Bath from 1946.
Bath & North East Somerset Council, thank you.
Watercolour of Bath by Sybil Tawse, signed and dated 1942.
A hand-written label on the back of the painting says that Miss Tawse had paintings exhibited nineteen times between 1925 and 1940, four times at the Royal Academy.
Watercolour by Sybil Tawse signed and dated 17.VIII.45,
inscribed
on the back "Landscape Near Bath - 1945".
Portrait of Charles Frederick Alford, London 1956.
The composition, technique, and use of colour are characteristic of Miss Tawse's work. Professor Alford said about the work the most important thing a portrait can achieve:
"I was a serious boy, not particularly happy overall, but alert and curious, and I think she captures that in her painting. It's true to my inner-life, as well as my appearance."
C. Fred Alford is Professor Emeritus and a distinguished scholar and author at the University of Maryland — about nine years old in the painting. Professor Alford is one of the very few the persons
now living who saw Miss Tawse in life, sitting for the portrait.
I recently saw a post on Facebook by another individual in Scotland
who
sat for Miss Tawse as a child and was trying to find the painting.
A watercolour of Earlsferry, Fife signed by Sybil Tawse and dated 6-IX-58.
Below a street-view of the same location today.
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Sybil Tawse in A Dictionary of Contemporary British artists, 1929 by Bernard Dolman, Art Trade Press, London, 1929.
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Miss Tawse enjoyed many reviews in magazines and newspapers, which I do not represent in this gallery. This, on the other hand, is an appreciation of her work in a book by Phyllis McGinley (1905–1978), the American author of children's books and poetry who won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1961. Sixpence in Her Shoe is a book of practical advice for American women first published in 1960.