Lot 83: The following lot is from the estate of the Late Hamish Alastair Phillips.

Cathedral Facade, signed in pencil, etching and aquatint, no. 11/20, 55 x 42cm (21 5/8 x 16 9/16in).
and Ada Louise Collier (1870-1948) Fishing Boats, Martigues, signed in pencil, no.13, col woodcut, (2)

Valerie Thornton studied art at the Regent Street Polytechnic School of Art 1950-53. In 1954 she went to Paris and studied printmaking with the renowned teacher Stanley William Hayter at Atelier 17. Thornton then moved to New York where she spent two years at the Pratt Institute. Her first exhibition of etchings and watercolours was held in 1960 since when there have been numerous shows in Britain and America. During the 1970s Thornton made etchings of several East Anglian churches and ecclesiastical and architectural subjects continued to form a major part of her artistic output throughout her career. She travelled extensively in France, Italy and Spain and Romanesque [Norman] churches provided a rich source of inspiration. Her work is to be found in several public collections both in Britain at the Victoria & Albert Museum, The Tate Gallery and the Fitzwilliam Museum and America’s Museum of Modern Art in New York.

Collier: No 11. of this edition is in the Government Art Collection


Collier purchased from Abbott and Holder, London 1998.