Thursday, September 25, 2008

Task 1: Anna Mary Hotchkis (1885-1984)

Anna Mary Hotchkis was a 20th Century Scottish painter. She studied at the Glasgow School of Art from 1906-1910. She also learned her trade in Munich and at Edinburgh College of Art under Robert Burns.

She lived in China from 1922-1937 and while teaching at the Yenchuing University, Peking. It was while there that she met an American artist by the name of Mary Mulliken, and the two women travelled wildly to very remote parts of China.

She painted in Watercolour, Oil and also did some woodblock printing, often alongside Dorothy Johnstone, May Brown, Cecile Walton and Jessie King in Kirkcudbright. They were collectively known as The Kirkcudbright Painters.

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