Beautifull Lithograph "Winnowing corn Basutoland" By Artist Molly D'Arcy Thompson - 1908 - 2010

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Molly D'Arcy Thompson was the daughter of acclaimed polymath D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson. Although she became a writer and artist rather than a scientist, she shared her father's fascination for the natural world.

Lithograph is 30 x 44 cm and frame is 51 cm x 63 cm.

Molly D'Arcy Thompson was born in Scotland in 1908 and resided in South Africa from 1951.

She studied art under Andre Lhote in Paris, Sir William Gillies in Edinburgh and under Bernard Meninsky at the Central School of Art in London, where she gained a diploma.

From 1952 to 1963 she taught art at the Silver Star Club, Salt River, Cape Town, and also taught art privately. She had seven solo exhibitions and participated in many group exhibitions.

She wrote and illustrated books like Call the Wind and Forgotten Corners of the Cape. 

( From The Dictionary of South African Painters and Sculptors by Grania Ogilvie ).