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Georgiana Houghton
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A London spiritualist who exhibited 155 watercolours of pure non-objective form at the New British Gallery on Bond Street in 1871, and said the spirits drew them. She paid for the show herself and it ruined her.
⭐⭐⭐ FORTY YEARS BEFORE KANDINSKY. Her late drawings have no subject at all — coils and veils of colour that would not look out of place in 1960. Current scholarship names the reason she is missing from the story plainly: gender bias in the writing of modern art history. Her grave was lost for decades and only found again at Highgate in July 2023.
⭐⭐⭐ FORTY YEARS BEFORE KANDINSKY. Her late drawings have no subject at all — coils and veils of colour that would not look out of place in 1960. Current scholarship names the reason she is missing from the story plainly: gender bias in the writing of modern art history. Her grave was lost for decades and only found again at Highgate in July 2023.
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whyYesod is the channel. She insisted she was one, and it is the claim that let her make the pictures.
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houghton · spiritualism · automatic drawing · 1871 · abstraction · women · london
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