Paintings

Artist / Author / Cartographer:

Elva Blacker {1908 - 1984}

Title:

Kuala Lumpur - Malay Kampong - Ampang Road

Date:

1959

Medium:

watercolour

Size:

51 x 34.5 cms.

Description:

Label on reverse,signed by the artist, Malay Kampong - Elva Blacker, 107 Brighton Rd Sutton Inscribed in pencil Opp MCA Bld., Ampang Rd, Off Mount Batton.

Elva Blacker studied photography at Regent Street Polytechnic. In 1930 she took over her father's photography studio in Regent Street after he died. Painting had always been her ftrst interest and after years of part time studying she eventually became a full time student at the Slade School of Art. After the Second World War she set up as a working artist and made a living from her paintings. This allowed her to travel abroad. In the 1950s she visited the Far East and Hong Kong where she painted a small group of watercolours

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Item Code:

P4310

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