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Verdure and Decay

Verdure and Decay

ANNA AIRY (1882-1964)


Watercolour and pen and ink
Signed with monogram; signed and inscribed with title and the artist's address on a label on the backboard
49.00 x 39.50cm (19.29 x 15.55 inches)

Exhibition History:

London, Royal Academy, 1956, no.880.
She studied at the Slade under Henry Tonks, Fred Brown and Philip Wilson Steer winning the Melville Nettleship Prize several times, the Slade Scholarship and many other prizes. She first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1905 and also showed at the Fine Art Society, Carfax Gallery and elsewhere. During World War I she completed pictures in munitions factories for the Imperial War Museum. Her works are also in the Victoria & Albert Museum, and many other galleries in this country and abroad. A retrospective exhibition was held at Christchurch Mansion, Ipswich in 1985.

Stock Code: 709

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