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Vanessa Bell: The Life and Art of a Bloomsbury Radical

Vanessa Bell: The Life and Art of a Bloomsbury Radical

$40.00 at de Young Museum.

One of Britain’s most radical and influential artists working in the first decades of the twentieth century, Vanessa Bell was a pioneer for professional women.A leading figure within The Bloomsbury Group and known for her unconventional lifestyle, Vanessa Bell’s work as a painter, designer and decorator has often been overlooked and relegated within the bombastic, male-dominated field of British modernism.With new research including previously unpublished letters, Wendy Hitchmough explores the ways in which…