Edna Ginesi
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Dimensions: 11” x 8”
Orientation: Portrait
Edna Ginesi (1902–2000) was a British artist of distant Italian ancestry. Ginesi was born in Leeds and studied at the Leeds College of Art (where she met the artist Raymond Coxon (1896-1997) whom she was to marry in 1926) and then the Royal College of Art; in 1924 she won a travelling scholarship and visited France, Belgium, Italy and the Netherlands. From 1929 she exhibited with the London Group and in 1933 became a member, her first solo exhibition was in 1932 at the Zwemmer Gallery. In 1930 she became a member of the Twenties Group, founded by Lucy Wertheim. Her work is represented in a number of public collections including The Tate Gallery, Bradford Museums & Galleries, The Hepworth Wakefield, Leeds Museums & Galleries and Manchester City Galleries.