Eden Box
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'''Eden Box''' (1919 – 1988) or '''E.Box''' or ''Edna Box'',{{Cite book | |
'''Eden Box''' (1919 – 1988) or '''E.Box''' or ''Edna Box'',{{Cite book |author=Anne Boston|title=Lesley Blanch: inner landscapes, wilder shores |date=2010 |publisher=J. Murray |isbn=978-0-7195-6037-8 |location=London}} was a British artist who painted religious scenes often in a highly stylised, naive manner. |
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==Biography== |
==Biography== |
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Box was born in London and studied at the [[Regent Street Polytechnic]] in central London between 1936 and 1939.{{cite book|author=[[Frances Spalding]]|publisher=Antique Collectors' Club|year=1990|title=20th Century Painters and Sculptors |isbn=1-85149-106-6}} She had a close friendship with the British writer and traveller, Lesley Blanch. After graduation she married professor [[Marston Fleming]], a senior research fellow at [[Imperial College, London]], and accompanied him on his overseas research trips.{{cite book|author=David Buckman|publisher=Art Dictionaries Ltd|year=1989|title=Artists in Britain Since 1945 |isbn=0953260909}} These trips to North America, Asia, Africa and Russia provided Box with subjects for her paintings.{{cite book|author=Alicia Foster|publisher=Tate Publishing|year=2004|title=Tate Women Artists|isbn=1-85437-311-0}} She painted richly coloured animals and figures in a highly stylised manner and often with a Christian theme. ''The Expulsion'' (1951), now in the [[Tate]], shows animals in the Garden of Eden with two small human figures under a flaming sword flanked by angels.{{cite web |url=http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/box-the-expulsion-t02219 |title=Catalogue entry: ''The Expulsion''|access-date=31 December 2017|work=Tate}} Box also used literature as a source and referenced works by [[Alexander Pushkin]], [[William Morris]], [[Andrew Marvell]] and [[William Blake]] in her paintings. Box's style was described as "strange" and her artwork as "unique" in ''The China Mail'' (1958).{{Cite news | |
Box was born in London and studied at the [[Regent Street Polytechnic]] in central London between 1936 and 1939.{{cite book|author=[[Frances Spalding]]|publisher=Antique Collectors' Club|year=1990|title=20th Century Painters and Sculptors |isbn=1-85149-106-6}} She had a close friendship with the British writer and traveller, Lesley Blanch. After graduation she married professor [[Marston Fleming]], a senior research fellow at [[Imperial College, London]], and accompanied him on his overseas research trips.{{cite book|author=David Buckman|publisher=Art Dictionaries Ltd|year=1989|title=Artists in Britain Since 1945 |isbn=0953260909}} These trips to North America, Asia, Africa and Russia provided Box with subjects for her paintings.{{cite book|author=Alicia Foster|publisher=Tate Publishing|year=2004|title=Tate Women Artists|isbn=1-85437-311-0}} She painted richly coloured animals and figures in a highly stylised manner and often with a Christian theme. ''The Expulsion'' (1951), now in the [[Tate]], shows animals in the Garden of Eden with two small human figures under a flaming sword flanked by angels.{{cite web |url=http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/box-the-expulsion-t02219 |title=Catalogue entry: ''The Expulsion''|access-date=31 December 2017|work=Tate}} Box also used literature as a source and referenced works by [[Alexander Pushkin]], [[William Morris]], [[Andrew Marvell]] and [[William Blake]] in her paintings. Box's style was described as "strange" and her artwork as "unique" in ''The China Mail'' (1958).{{Cite news |date=18 January 1958|title="Save That Wallpaper! – cried painter Eden Box" |url=https://archive.org/details/NPCM19580118/page/n11/mode/2up?q=%22eden%22 |work=The China Mail |pages=12}} |
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In 1964, Box took part in the exhibition ''The World of the Innocents'' held at the [[Musée National d'Art Moderne]] in Paris.{{cite book|publisher=Editions Grund, Paris|year=2006|title=Benezit Dictionary of Artists Volume 2 Bedeschini-Bulow|isbn=2-7000-3072-9}} A 1981 retrospective exhibition of her work at the [[David Carritt]] gallery had a catalogue featuring an introduction written by [[Howard Hodgkin]], who was a great admirer of her work. Other retrospectives were held in 1956 and 1979 at galleries in [[King's Lynn]]. [[Roy Strong]] also championed her work in a 1978 article for ''[[Vogue (magazine)|Vogue]]''. Box's first solo exhibition was held in 1949 at the [[Hanover Gallery]] in London and in all she had fifteen solo exhibitions, including one in Rome and two in New York at the [[Betty Parsons|Betty Parsons Gallery]] in 1953 and 1958, during her career. |
In 1964, Box took part in the exhibition ''The World of the Innocents'' held at the [[Musée National d'Art Moderne]] in Paris.{{cite book|publisher=Editions Grund, Paris|year=2006|title=Benezit Dictionary of Artists Volume 2 Bedeschini-Bulow|isbn=2-7000-3072-9}} A 1981 retrospective exhibition of her work at the [[David Carritt]] gallery had a catalogue featuring an introduction written by [[Howard Hodgkin]], who was a great admirer of her work. Other retrospectives were held in 1956 and 1979 at galleries in [[King's Lynn]]. [[Roy Strong]] also championed her work in a 1978 article for ''[[Vogue (magazine)|Vogue]]''. Box's first solo exhibition was held in 1949 at the [[Hanover Gallery]] in London and in all she had fifteen solo exhibitions, including one in Rome and two in New York at the [[Betty Parsons|Betty Parsons Gallery]] in 1953 and 1958, during her career. |
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