Texts on British Art, 1918-1945
by Katy Deepwell

 

Art Critic, London

 

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Women Artists in Britain, 1918-1945

2025

‘WIAC, ‘A Fair Field and No Favour’, 1918-1939’, for online catalogue due in 2025, Sarah MacDougall and Una Richmond (eds) "Sheer Verve": The Women's International Art Club 1898-1978p  Ben Uri Gallery, London, 2023-2024.

2022 ‘Anti-fascist activities amongst women artists in the 1930s in Britain’ in Dra. Concha Lomba Serrano and Dr. Alberto Castán Chocarro (ed) Las mujeres en el sistema artístico (1804-1939) / Women in the Art Scene (1804-1939) (congress at Zaragoza Museum in 2021; Research project, HAR 2017-84399-P, Universidad de Madrid, 2022)
2015 ‘Women Artists in/out of Vorticism’ in G. Berghaus (ed) International Yearbook of Futurism Studies (2015) ISBN: 978-3-11-040850-8 pp. 21-43
2010 Women Artists Between the Wars: ‘A Fair Field and No Favour’ (Manchester University Press, 2010) ISBN 978-0-7190-8080-7. 355 pages, 121 illustrations, 4 tables.
The book is based on my PhD and detailed archival and library research outlining the representation of women artists in major exhibiting groups across the period. It was completed during a Leverhulme scholarship, 2008-2009 and published with a grant from the Paul Mellon Foundation.
2008 'Women War Artists of World War One' in Karen E. Brown (ed) Women's Contributions to Visual Culture,1918-1939 (Ashgate, 2008)
2001 'Jessica Dismorr'   Volume 25  Allegemeines Künstlerlexikon  Leipzig: KG Saur Verlag München (2001) Editor: Ina Deicke.
1998 'Barbara Hepworth and her Critics' in Katy Deepwell (ed) Women Artists and Modernism (Manchester University Press, June, 1998).  ISBN 0-7190-5082-0.
1997 Introductory essay ‘Women Artists: Careers and Training in Britain and Ireland in the 20th Century’ and 9 separate entries on the work of E.Agar, I.Colquhoun, J.Dismorr, G.Hermes,W.Nicholson, D.Proctor, E.Walker, J.Morreau, Sylvia Gosse in Delia Gaze (ed) Dictionary of Women Artists (Fitzroy Dearborn,1997).ISBN 1-884964-21-4
1996 'A History of the Society of Women Artists' Introduction to Charles Baile de Laperrière (ed.) Society of women artists exhibitors 1855-1996, Wiltshire: Hilmarton Press, 1996.

1996

1995

‘Hepworth and Her Critics’ David Thistlewood (ed) Barbara Hepworth      
 Reconsidered (Tate Gallery, Liverpool and Liverpool University Press, March 1996)
pp. 75-93.  ISBN 0-85323-770-0
(Also commissioned in May 1995 by Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto to write 8 text
panels to accompany touring exhibition of Barbara Hepworth).
1994 ‘A Fair Field and No Favour: Women Artists in Britain' in Sybil Oldfield, ed.,
This Working Day World: Womens’ Lives and Culture in Britain 1914-1945,
Falmer Press,1994 pp.141-155. ISBN 0-7484-0107-5.
1992 Ten Decades: The Careers of Ten Women Artists born 1897-1906,  Exhibition Catalogue of Arts Council Touring Exhibition, Norwich Gallery, NIAD, April 1992, ISBN 1-872482-05-8 (Exhibition Tour 1992: Morley College, London & Howard Gardens Gallery, CIAD) Exhibition designed and selected to form part of the ‘Marginalisation & Alienation’ series. (10,000 word catalogue essay, plus biographies, drawn from PhD research)
1990 'Emmy Bridgwater' (co-written with Deborah Sugg) Women's Art Magazine (formerly WASL Journal) No.37 Nov/Dec 1990 pp.14-16
1990 'Dod Procter (1892-1972)' WASL Journal,No.34 May/June 1990 pp.19-20
1989 'Edith Granger-Taylor' Gillian Jason Gallery, WASL Journal, No.28 April/May 1989 p.29
1988 'Women in the Seven and Five Society' WASL Journal, No.22 April/May 1988 pp.10-12
1987 'The Memorial Exhibition of Ethel Walker, Gwen John and Frances Hodgkins' WASL Journal, No.16 April/May 1987 pp.5-6
1988-1991 PhD in Art History on 'Women Artists in Britain between the Two World Wars', Birkbeck College, University of London (Award: 1992)
1985-1986  MA Social History of Art at Leeds University.
Thesis: The Tate’s Memorial Exhibition of Ethel Walker, Gwen John and Frances Hodgkins.

For information about Katy Deepwell's writing on contemporary British women artists, please consult the other pages of this website.