Muriel Jackson

(British 1901 – 1977)

Ice Cream Seller, c.1920s

wood engraving

signed lower left 'Muriel Jackson’ and inscribed ‘1/30’ and with handwritten note verso, titled ’The Fair Ground August Bank Holiday’

image size 23 x 17 cm.

sheet size 28 x 23 cm.

(framed 34 x 29 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)