Muriel COLDWELL
Muriel COLDWELL (SEE also Muriel BURGESS) was a Slade student from 1897, but had been a pupil artist in St Ives the previous year. Her home was in Kingsland Grove, Shrewsbury, and she appears to have exhibited at Birmingham and SWA until about 1905 under her maiden name. In 1911 she and Arthur BURGESS, whom she had met in St Ives in her summer student days, were married in Shrewsbury, and continued to keep up with the Cornish circle of friends they had made. They had one daughter. Both later joined STISA. Her husband pre-deceased her in 1957.
The correspondence between Coldwell and Burgess during their separations before marriage, provide vivid pictures of student life in St Ives, which Tovey brings to publication in his social history of the colony (2009). Her photo appears on p239, together with one of her future husband, Arthur Burgess.
media
Painter
exhibitions
BIR
SWA
RA 1914, 1917
memberships
STISA 1934-36
references
Green (2002) Posing the Model
Hardie (2009) Artists in Newlyn and St Ives (pp158 & 317)
Johnson & Greutzner (1975) Dictionary of British Artists
Tovey (2003) Creating a Splash
(2009) St Ives: Social History