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Irish Women Artists 1870 - 1970
Summer 2014
95. Margaret Stokes (1915-1996)
Nude in Sunroom
Oil on canvas, 56 x 50.5cm
Signed with initials
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Mainie Jellett, a first cousin who gave her art lessons from an early age, first influenced
Margaret Stokes. She was a pupil at The Royal Hibernian Academy School and she won
the Purser Griffin Scholarship which she used to attend the Glasgow School of Art and
later went to the Edinburgh College of Art where she studied under Joan Hassell the
well known wood engraver and illustrator andW. G. Gillies the distinguished Scottish
painter. She returned to Dublin and taught at Alexandra College and had private pupils.
