Muriel Jackson

(British 1901 – 1977)

Bygone Bank Holiday, Hampstead, c.1920s

wood engraving

signed lower right ‘Muriel Jackson’ and inscribed lower left in pen ‘5/50 / Bygone Bank Holiday, Hampstead.’ and inscribed verso

image size 35 x 32 cm.

sheet size 41 x 37 cm.

(framed 45 x 41 cm.)

in a period frame 

Painter, notably of portraits and murals, and printmaker. She was the daughter of the architect A Blomfield Jackson and was born in London. After private education she attended the Central School of Arts and Crafts under Noel Rooke and F Ernest Jackson. She showed RA, NEAC, Redfern Gallery, widely in the provinces and in America. Art Institute of Chicago holds her work. Lived in London.

Text source: 'Artists in Britain Since 1945' by David Buckman (Art Dictionaries Ltd, part of Sansom & Company)