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GABAIN, Ethel
GABAIN, Ethel
ETHEL GABAIN
1883 – 1950)
Painter and lithographer born in Le Havre, France, of French and Scottish parents. She was sent to England at fourteen to a boarding school. She continued her artistic studies at the Slade and the Central School of Art.
She later worked in Paris, where she met Steinlen. She made her first lithograph in 1906 and as a founder member of the ‘Senefelder Club’ she met and later married a fellow member the artist John Copley. She became well known as a lithographer, and also as a painter who specialised in portraits, especially actresses in their character roles. Her portrait of Flora Robson (Manchester Art Gallery) won the de Laszlo silver medal in 1933. She was an Official War Artist in the Second World War, but due to bad health stopped briefly in 1943. She made over 300 lithographs during her life time, her husband John Copley helping her to print them.
Exhibitions
Goupil Gallery
Albert Roullier Galleries, Chicago. 1924
Royal Academy
Walker Art Gallery
Liverpool Gallery
Tate Gallery
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