Code: 6042
Dimensions:
A beautiful large 1930's Modern British oil on canvas depicting thistle in a glass vase by Helen Stuart Weir RBA ROI.
Excellent quality early work by this important female artist, who took over from Dorothea Sharp as Acting President of the Society of Women Artists.
Signed lower right and presented in it's swept gilt gallery frame. Dealership label on the reverse.
Artist: Helen Stuart Weir RBA ROI (British, 1915-1969)
Title: Thistle in a Glass Vase
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 30.5 x 26.5 inches (78 x 68 cm) including the frame
Helen Stuart Weir RBA ROI was born in New York to an American mother and a Scottish father (from Lanark). Weir studied in the US, Germany and England.
Her mother was the artist Nina May Weir Lewis. Helen had one sister, and the two children were brought to Europe by their mother after their father's death.
As an adult, she was permanently based in London but kept Rose Lodge Studio in St Ives, and stayed at St Ives Bay Hotel during summers. Weir was a painter of landscape, still-life and flowers as well as a sculptor.
Independent financially, Helen was well-liked in St Ives circles and was a good friend of the Lanyon family. In 1933, she took over as Acting President of the Society of Women Artists from Dorothea Sharp.
