Browsing Category Biography
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Below (I.)
HIDDEN TREASURES,
Irma Stern, her books, painted book covers and bookplates
56 pp., b/w & colour illus., hardback, d.w.,
Cape Town,
2000.
R240
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Reproduces in full colour many of the bookplates and covers Irma Stern designed for the books in her personal library.
Text translated from German by Walter Middleman & Geoffrey Wittenberg.
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Berman (M.)
REMEMBERING IRMA,
Irma Stern: a memoir with letters
184 pp., b/w & colour illus., paperback,
Cape Town,
2003.
R170
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"Mona Berman's account of the thirty-year correspondence between her parents, Richard and Freda Feldman, and...Irma Stern..."
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Botha (A.)
MAJORIE WALLACE,
drif en vreugde
160 pp., 4to., b/w & colour illus., paperback,
Cape Town,
2006.
R172
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Painter Majorie Wallace was born in Scotland and lived most of her life in Paris, Onrus and Cape Town with her husband Jan Rabie.
Art journalist and documentary film director Amanda Botha curated Majorie Wallace's 2003 Retrospective Exhibition.
Foreword by André Brink.
Text in Afrikaans.
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Boyley (J.)
ERROL BOYLEY,
a biography, celebration of a life
182 pp., 4to., b/w & colour illus., hardback, d.w.,
Johannesburg,
2005.
OUT OF PRINT
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Errol Boyley, painter, was born in 1918 in Pietermaritzburg, where he lives and works.
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Butler (G.)
THE PROPHETIC NUN,
Sister Margaret CR, Sister Pauline CR, Sister Dorothy Raphael CSMV
127 pp., 4to., b/w & colour illus., paperback,
2000,
Johannesburg.
R180
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Sister Margaret (Margaret Watson) was born in London in 1879. She entered the Community of the Resurrection of our Lord in Grahamstown in 1911. From 1924 onwards she completed many frescoes and paintings, including the fresco above the apse of St Mary and the All Angels.
Sister Pauline (Florence Edith Grace Terry) was born in London in 1883. She joined the Community in 1915 and was in charge of the Carving School at Grace Dieu near Pietersburg until 1938, and then at St Faith's in Zimbabwe, until her death. She taught Ernest Mancoba, David Chituka & Job Kekana.
