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Mary Slatford Newcomb

Mary Slatford Newcomb (1922 - 2008) was active/lived in England.  Mary Newcomb is known for Sophisticated folk art style painting of cattle, boats, rural scenes, sculpture.

"Passionate painter whose art lay in the rhythms of nature and the rituals of rural life," by Ian Collins, Obituary, The Guardian, newspaper, Web, London, March 30.2008

Visionary painter Mary Newcomb, who has died aged 86, displayed an affinity with English folk art and a grasp of natural science that was anything but naive. Although falling into the tradition of Blake, Turner and Palmer - and latterly of Winifred Nicholson, Mary Potter and Elisabeth Vellacott - in making poetry from the rural picture, she was an untrained and entirely intuitive artist who always claimed she could not draw properly. Late in life she thought she had finally understood the meaning of the word "tone".

But this extreme modesty, coupled with an elusiveness some wrongly thought fey, masked an inner resilience, a steely quest to pursue an intensely felt vision. Ironically, work by this outsider's outsider came to be collected by the stars of a cosmopolitan world, including film directors   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 6793 characters.]  Artist bio

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