Puma lying down (1917)

Elsie Marian Henderson

charcoal on buff paper

Prints and Drawings Department, British Museum, London

Photo credit: The Trustees of the British Museum

Classification:

Drawing and Watercolour

Materials:

Charcoal, Buff paper

Physical Object Description:

A puma; lying down in profile to left on a log, head turned to front Charcoal. Inscribed: "[puma?]" and "EMHenderson".

Dimensions:

24.4 x 37.5 cm

Accession Number:

1917,0512.5

Credit:

Presented by the Contemporary Art Society, 1917

Scheme:

Gift

Ownership history:

Gifted by T. Geoffrey Blackwell (1884-1943) to the Contemporary Art Society, 1917; presented to the Prints and Drawings Department, British Museum, London, 1917

Relationship:

Prints and Drawings Department, British Museum, London Thomas Geoffrey Blackwell

Subject:

Animals (farm)

Elsie Marian Henderson, later Baroness de Coudenhove, studied at the South Kensington Schools (which later became the Royal College of Art) before studying at the Slade School of Fine Art (1903-1905). She continued her art education in Paris, between 1908 and 1912, attending the Académie Moderne, the Académie Colarossi and at Cercle Russe. In 1912 Henderson studied with Othon Friesz (1879-1949) before spending 1913 in Italy and then enrolled at the Chelsea Polytechnic, London (now Chelsea College of Arts) in 1916. She became a frequent visitor to the London Zoo and animal drawings and paintings became a major theme of her work.

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