Seaweed
Mary Vaughan-Williams
Oil on canvas
1963
Gift: Mr D. A. Albino
1639/93
Mary Vaughan-Williams (b.1913 Clocolan, Free State d.1992)
Mary Vaughan-Williams studied at the Witwatersrand Technical College, Johannesburg, and in London between 1936 and 1939 at the Royal college of Art under Gilbert Spencer (1892-1979) and William Rothenstein (1872-1945). In 1953 she spent six months at the Slade School of Art, London. In 1943 she settled in Natal, moving to the Cape in 1965.