Lucy BODILLY

Mrs Lucy BODILLY
Mrs Arthur
fl 1920-1934

The St Ives Spring Exhibition in 1920 contained some of her needlework pictures, and she also exhibited in the first Craft Show at Newlyn in 1924.   Her exhibits include miniatures and still life.   The wife of M Arthur Bodilly, they lived at Rosemorran. Her daughter Vera Barclay BODILLY also excelled as an artist, with a specialty in portrait painting. The mother and daughter often exhibited together in St Ives.

media

Needlework; miniature and still-life artist

exhibitions

Falmouth Art Gallery Feb 1919

Modern embroidery RCPS Sept 1920

NAG Sep 1924

St Ives Dec 1920

STISA Spring Exhibition 1920, 1932 and 1934 Touring Shows

memberships

STISA c1930-c1934

references

St Ives Times 7 Feb 1919, 16 Apr 1920 [from WMN]; 24 Sep 1920

Hardie (2009) Artists in Newlyn and West Cornwall;

Johnson & Gruetzner (listed as Miss L, error) (1975) Dictionary of British Artists

NAG Exhibition records

Tovey (2003) Creating a Splash;

           (2009) St Ives: Social History