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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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Welcome to this weeks thread the featuring artists this week are : Nina Scott Langley and Agnes Martin , Robert will open the week and add his introduction to Nina Scott Langleyand his choice of her work , on Wednesday Martin will introduce us to the artwork of Agnus Martin .  Have a good week and enjoy your artwork, please do add any painting  of the artists featured that you particularly like .

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Robert Jones, Napa

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 Nina Scott-Langley, 1890 – 1964   Online information about Nina Scott-Langley is surprisingly hard to find, especially when you’ve forgotten you were going to write an intro to her and had forgotten until the last minute..   However – if anyone can find more than I have, please fill in the cavernous gaps in my knowledge.  I first encountered her superb drawings and watercolours in a book on British wildlife by the naturalist David Stephen – it was a present to me from an aunt, and must have been one of the last projects on which Scott-Langley worked, given her relatively early death (i.e. she was just a year older than I am now, and that qualifies as “early” in my book).  Her scant biography suggests she was influenced by other artists at the turn of the 20[sup]th[/sup] century – but I think that biographical note was filling in the gaps much as I’m doing, because I don’t think she owed her style to any other artist, even the great Thorburn.    Probably the word “illustrator” sums up most of her work, some of which is sentimental, but never cloyingly so; and her work for David Stephen’s book was not sentimental in any way – she captured the sinuousness of the Scottish wild cat to perfection in the frontispiece of the book, and the short-sighted but determined peering of the cautious badger.  A very English artist, of generally British subjects, and clearly a genuine lover of animals.  This is a word document copied and pasted; illustrations will follow!  

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Robert Jones, Napa

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I think she liked dogs; however, do consult David Stephen's Wild Animals and Their Ways, before you judge her.  
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Robert Jones, Napa

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Apologies for the odd additions to the text - that's what happens when you copy and paste, it seems, and then you can't edit it!   Computers, Horizon - no wonder it all goes wrong .... 
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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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Thanks fortune introduction Robert I will have a look at her work later today .
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I was surprised how little came up for this artist in a google image search.  Mostly dogs.  Maybe not surprising as that was her main subject, but I was expecting a little more variety. She paints and draws them so well.
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Dare one say she had a dogged commitment to her trademark genre?   I felt challenged to find a non canine picture and rather liked this illustration.
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Here's the book.  Still available from book dealers, at a range of prices. 
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