Suzanne Cooper: Paintings under the Spare-Room Bed

In the 1930s Suzanne Cooper (1916–1992) was one of the most promising young painters of British modernism. A student at the Grosvenor School of Modern Art, she exhibited oils and wood engravings in West End galleries and won the support of her tutor Iain Macnab and the dealer Lucy Carrington Wertheim – until the war led her to nursing, marriage and motherhood, and her ambitions were quietly set aside.

Rediscovered only recently, her work invites comparison with Eric Ravilious and Christopher Wood. This book gathers fifty paintings, prints and drawings – seaside and street scenes alive with everyday oddity, assured still lifes, and portraits with a hint of Surrealism – each with a commentary by Andrew Stewart. Essays by Lucy Hughes-Hallett, Cooper’s daughter-in-law, and Jenny Uglow place her within the interwar art world.

Published by The Mainstone Press.

• 112 pages
• Page size 240 × 280 mm (landscape)
• Hardback
• 120 illustrations