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from Auction House Records.
Window in Hollywood
Artwork images are copyright of the artist or assignee
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Biography from AskART:
| Known for floral still lifes, figures, and landscapes of Arizona and
England, Nora Lucy Cundell was born and raised in London. She
began exhibiting at the Royal Academy in 1911 and continued nearly
until the time of her death in 1948. From 1936 to 1941, eight of
11 paintings exhibited at the Academy were scenes of Arizona. A
memorial exhibition in her honor in 1949 in London at the Royal Society
of British Artists had 45 paintings of the American West, including
California and Utah as well as Arizona.
Other exhibition venues for Cundell were the Royal Society of Portrait
Painters, the French Salon in Paris and Carnegie Institute in
Pittsburgh.
She came to the United States for the first time in 1934, and, touring
the American West, was especially fascinated by Marble Canyon in
northeastern Arizona, a place she returned to the next year for
painting and sketching. About this year-long visit, she wrote and
published Unsentimental Journey.
During World War II in London, she served as an ambulance driver, and
then in 1947, she lived at Marble Canyon in a small stone cabin.
Her plan to return the following year ended with her death in Windsor,
England in 1948, but her request to have her ashes scattered in Marble
Canyon was honored.
She also did portraits of Navajo Indians,
and in later years, these western paintings became more sought after
than what she did in England.
Her work is in the collections of the Tate Gallery and the Museum of Northern Arizona in Flagstaff.
Source:
Phil Kovinick and Marian Yoshiki-Kovinick, An Encyclopedia of Women Artists of the American West
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Biography from AskART:
| Information from Steven Woodruff
Ms.
Cundell taught art (portraits & landscapes) during the 1930's to my
grandmother, Mamie Lowery Woodruff, while living with her family at the
"Vermillion Cliffs Lodge", today known as Marble Canyon Lodge, Marble
Canyon, AZ.
Cundell also authored a book, Unsentimental Journey Methuen & Co., Ltd. 1940.
Upon
her death in 1948, her ashes were returned by my father, Eugene
Woodruff, to be scattered at the base of the Vermillion Cliffs.
Ref:
Lee's Ferry, Desert River Crossing; W.L. Rusho pp. 114-115 & 117.
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