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Mary Potter

1900–1981

The Window, Chiswick 1929
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Biography

Mary Potter, OBE (9 April 1900 – 14 September 1981) was an English painter whose best-known work uses a restrained palette of subtle colours.

After studying at the Slade School of Fine Art, Potter began her career, exhibiting in London by the early 1920s. From the 1950s, her work became increasingly abstract, and she gained wider notice.

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  • Golden Kipper

    Mary Potter
    1939
  • East Coast Window

    Mary Potter
    exhibited 1959
  • Bonfire

    Mary Potter
    1974
  • Still Life

    Mary Potter
    1959
  • The Window, Chiswick

    Mary Potter
    1929
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