Vanessa Bell
Domestic focus … Interior with a Housemaid, c 1939. Photograph: © Estate of Vanessa Bell.
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Some tidbits from Katy Hessel’s piece in The Guardian:
Vanessa Bell is breaking free of Bloomsbury. She was the overshadowed member of the iconic group. But now, with a major exhibition, Bell is finally getting her due.
If Bloomsbury member John Maynard Keynes was the economics pioneer, and Woolf its literary star, then Bell was the painter equivalent.
Famous Women Dinner Service, c. 1932–34:
Vanessa Bell made sure history didn't skip the good parts.