Correspondence, photographs and press cuttings relating to Lily Delissa Joseph

This collection is mainly concerned with exhibitions of work by Lily Delissa Joseph (nee Solomon), particularly at the Suffolk Street Galleries in 1924 and the Bruton Galleries in 1912. Includes correspondence, photographs, press cuttings and private view cards for the Suffolk Street exhibition where she exhibited with her husband, the architect Delissa Joseph, as well as correspondence regarding the sale of 'Roofs, High Holborn' to the Royal Academy, photographs of her exhibition at the Bruton Galleries in 1912, photographs of her and her family and an article 'Lily Delissa Joseph' from 'The Hippodrome', April 1930.

Lily Delissa Joseph was born in London in 1863, younger sister of Solomon J Solomon, and studied at the Royal Academy and the Ridley School of Art. She married the architect Delissa Joseph, and is known as being a painter of portraits, landscapes and interiors, using a limited palatte of white, cobalt, rose madder and orange madder. As well as being a serious artist, she was also involved in both religious and political spheres. In 1912, she was unable to attend one of her own private views, because she was detained in Holloway Gaol on a charge in connection with the Women's Suffrage Movement. She was one of the first women to own and drive her own car, and learnt to fly during the 1920s. Lily is celebrated for painting the interiors of the National Gallery, and was at one time an art critic for the 'Woman's Gazette'. She died in London in 1940.

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Paper list available

Available on microfiche.

Copyright retained by The Hon. Mrs Ewan Montague.

Presented to the Archive by The Hon. Mrs Ewan Montague, June 1970.

Group exhibition catalogue 'Jewish Artists of Great Britain 1845-1945', includes biography (TGA 8225/6/128), exhibition catalogue for the Suffolk Street Galleries exhibition held in the Library.