Decoris Fine Art

Description

Artist Joy Barnes (Nee. Spearman) b.1912
Title Advert Art work
Medium Original Artwork Ink Wash
Date of Creation 1937

Artist Biography
Joy Barnes was born in 1912, daughter of the eminent psychologist Professor Spearman. She studied at the Chelsea School of Art under Henry Moore and Graham Sutherland. She continued her studies in Munich focusing on commercial art. In 1936 she started working for Service Advertising Agency producing advertising art work for many high end retailers and manufacturers. After the war she moved to Somerset and founded the Bruton Art Society. Joy is still alive and painting today aged 100.

Painting Details
This is an original advert design for a large London retailer used for promoting a store, most likely to be used as a newspaper advert. The painting is ink and ink wash to create a very attractive image of three period 1930’s ladies.
Painting is offered in a new frame.