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Study of Arms for "The Cadence of Autumn"

A prize-winning student at the South Kensington and Slade Schools, Evelyn De Morgan (née Pickering) visited Italy in 1875, then exhibited at London’s Dudley Gallery in 1876, and the Grosvenor Gallery in 1877. Acclaimed by contemporary critics, she married William De Morgan in 1887 then used money earned by selling her paintings to help sustain her husband's business--an influential and experimental potter, he was closely associated with Morris & Co. Influenced by late Pre-Raphaelitism, Evelyn's work connects to contemporaries such as Edward Burne-Jones and Frederic, Lord Leighton. Like them, she made detailed drawings to prepare paintings and the arms on this sheet relate to a young woman tossi...
1905
Graphite and pastel on brown paper
37.8 x 25.6cm
2018.862
Image and text © Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2019

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