Artist: Leonora Carrington (1917 - )
Nationality: British
Movement: Surrealism
Media: Painting
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Biography:
Leonora Carrington began painting in the Surrealist style in the 1930’s before moving to Mexico in 1942. There she met and shared a studio with Remedios Varo, a fellow female artist who dealt with the same mystical and occult themes that Carrington was interested in. She also created early feminist paintings that interpreted woman as the center of creativity and nature. Carrington’s work contains religious and mythological symbols, as well as other extraneous elements that compose her unique Surrealist approach.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (19)
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Leonora Carrington - Friday 1978 oil on canvas Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art at The University of Oklahoma Mexican
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Cornelis de Visscher Portrait of Helena Leonora de Sieveri Engraving 17th century
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Cornelis de Visscher Portrait of Helena Leonora de Sieveri Engraving 17th century
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Gerard Edelinck Portrait of Ulrica Leonora Engraving 17th - 18th century
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Francesco Bartolozzi Frontispiece, after Diana Beauclerck from the book Leonora Etching and stipple engraving 1796
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Francesco Bartolozzi Frontispiece, after Diana Beauclerck from the book Leonora Etching and stipple engraving 1796
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Thomas Edwards, 1701-02–1755 Teapot United States, Massachusetts, (Boston), about 1750-1755 Silver 14.3 cm (5 5/8
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Albrecht Dürer, German, 1471-1528 The Prodigal Son amid the Swine probably 1496 Engraving Platemark: 24.8
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Ponte San Rocco and Waterfalls, Tivoli François-Marius Granet (French, 1775-1849)Oil on canvas; 14 7/8 x
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Pair of Lidded Tureens, Liners, and Stands
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Fan Mount: The Cabbage Gatherers Camille Pissarro (French, 1830-1903)Gouache on silk; 6 1/2 x 20
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Un homme drapé, debout, les bras ouverts, regardant au ciel: un apôtre ? (16e siècle) by PRIMATICCIO Francesco (attribué à)
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Baptême du Christ (16e siècle) by VASARI Giorgio
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Persée délivrant Androméde (1ère moitié 16e siècle) by BONACCORSI Piero (attribué à)
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Tête d'un moine chartreux, de face (4e quart 16e siècle ; 1er quart 17e siècle) by POCCETTI Bernardino
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Tête de moine (1591 vers ; 1593 vers) by POCCETTI Bernardino
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Tête d'homme, de face et deux mains jointes (1591 vers ; 1593 vers) by POCCETTI Bernardino
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Chartreux assis : Ugo le Bienheureux (1591 vers ; 1593 vers) by POCCETTI Bernardino
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Saint François présenté au Christ par la Vierge (1671) by LIGOZZI Jacopo

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (6)
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Catto Contemporary: Sarah Carrington: Iona – Time and Tide
Her canvases are often large in scale (up to 6 x 12 feet), colourful yet at the same time subtle. Her work captures the various moods of both the sea and sky at different times of the year, and in varying weather conditions. Often the viewer is ov...
Centre de Cultura Contemporania de Barcelona: Requiem for the Staircase: Curated by Architect Oscar Tusquets
Professor Juan Antonio Ramirez has selected a few very important paintings and drawings representing the entire history of art, in which each of the stairways has been represented by great artists. These are accompanied by film footage and lit...
Huntington Library, Art Collections, & Botanical Gardens: THE ART OF BLOOMSBURY
Works by Bell, Fry, and Grant will be complemented by those of their contemporaries, such as Henry Lamb, Walter Sickert, Dora Carrington and William Roberts, and by the great continental modernist painters they admired, notably Picasso, Derain, a...
Yale Center for British Art: The Art of Bloomsbury
The Yale Center for British Art is the final stop for this exhibition that includes masterpiece paintings from the collections of the Tate Gallery, the National Portrait Gallery (L...
Galería Arte Moderno de Guadalajara: The Mummies of Guanajuato: A Series of Paintings
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began painting the mummies following a deeply moving visit to the Museo de Las Momias in December 1999. As I painted each mummy, I thought on the possibilities of their lives...who had they beenNULL A...
Ben Uri Gallery - London Jewish Museum of Art: Mark Gertler: A New Perspective
At the Slade Gertler mixed with C R W Nevinson, Paul Nash and Stanley Spencer, won many prizes, and left with a reputation as a draughtsman to equal that of Augustus John. There he also met and fell in love with fellow student Dora Carrington, who...

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