Gladys VASEY

Mrs Gladys VASEY
1889
1981

Born in Blackpool and brought up in Manchester, Gladys Vasey was one of twin sisters. She studied in the evenings with a Polish painter around 1909 after attending finishing school in Germany, and came to Newlyn to study with Stanhope FORBES; she also visited the Samuel John Lamorna BIRCH classes.  She wrote for the Art Quarterly.

exhibitions

Royal Society of Portrait Painters; ROI

memberships

Manchester Academy of Fine Arts 1934; Royal Cambrian Society 1953-56; SWA 1961-65

references

Green Posing the Model

Hardie (2009) Artists in Newlyn and West Cornwall p289