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HOPE, Rosa Somerville

Born: 1902
Died: 1972

Artist


Born 1902 (Manchester, UK) Died 1972 (Kokstad)

An artist who designed artworks for the Ceramic Studio.

Trained at the Slade School, London, and at the Central School, London. 1919: Awarded a Slade Scholarship, and later a Central School Scholarship. 1926: Prix de Rome finalist. 1935: Came to South Africa as Lecturer at the Michaelis School of Art: founded the Dept. of Engraving 1938-57: Senior Lecturer, Fine Art Dept. UNP (J. Leeb-du Toit, Rosa Hope exhibition, Pietermaritzburg, UNP, 1977)

List of projects

With photographs
With notes

Post Office: 1940. Heidelberg, Gauteng - Artist tiled panel
Post Office: 1940. Irene, Gauteng - Artist tiled panel

Books citing HOPE

Hillebrand, Melanie. 1991. The women of Olifantsfontein - South African studio ceramics : Die vroue van Olifantsfontein - Suid-Afrikaanse ateljee-keramiek . Pretoria: South African National Gallery. pp 15