Ink on paper, 1956, framed under glass.

Sheet sight 14 1/2 x 18 in. Frame dimensions 16 1/4 x 19 3/4 in.

Berlin-born artist Edith Caspary London was exposed to art from a young age, her extended family included writers and sculptors. London attended the University of Berlin, took classes at Berlin’s Federation of Women Artists, and was introduced to the work of Henri Matisse.

In 1933, Edith and her husband left Germany and she continued her studies at Oxford, England, followed by three years at Academie Andre Lhote in Paris. Eventually, their family immigrated to the United States settling in Durham, North Carolina. After her husband’s death, she was employed by the art history department at Duke, a position she held from 1955 until 1969.

London achieved local and statewide recognition, including the North Carolina Award in Fine Arts. The North Carolina Museum of Art mounted an exhibition of her collages in 1988, followed by a retrospective organized by the Durham Art Guild four years later. (Adapted from The Johnson Collection).

Overall toning and scattered foxing, not examined outside of frame.