Edith Cheesman
Edith Cheesman
Etching
124 x 175mm
Gift: Mrs S Davis
1910/98
Edith Cheesman (b. Westwell, Kent, England active 1920-1935)
Edith Cheesman studied at the Kings College School of Art and the Chelsea School of Art, London - also under John Byam Lister Shaw (1872-1919) and Lucy Kemp-Welch (1869-1958). She was a painter and etcher. She traveled extensively to countries such as those on the Gold Coast, Iraq and Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe).
During the 1930s Edith Cheesman worked from a studio at Botha's Hill and exhibited in Durban and Pietermaritzburg.