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Julia Dunlop

Randolph Schwabe (1885-1948)

INSCRIBED WITH TITLE AND DATED 1936
PENCIL ON TINTED PAPER
11 X 10 1/2 INCHES
PROVENANCE: THE ESTATE OF RANDOLPH SCHWABE
EXHIBITED: 'RANDOLPH SCHWABE. ARTIST, TEACHER, DIARIST', 9-27 FEBRUARY 2016

As Schwabe explained in his diary, Julia Dunlop was a student of the dancer and choreographer, Margaret Morris (1891-1980), alongside Schwabe's daughter, Alice:

Friday 8 May 1936
Julia Dunlop & Martha Grant, Margaret Morris students from Scotland came to stay over the week-end preparatory to the great display at the Queen’s Hall on Monday next …

Sunday 10
Drew Julia Dunlop for half an hour, or rather more, in the morning, and went on afterwards, with the dog to see Durst in Wycombe Studios: he has a new font which he is working on, and wanted to show me. It is being done as a sample in the hope of selling it or getting other commissions. … His early years in a Cathedral close, his residence in Chartres before the war, and his real love for Romanesque work have done much to form the style he is now, in a sense, reverting to ...

Price

£550

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