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''For the Australian writer, Margaret Geddes, see [[Margaret Geddes]].''
'''Margaret Geddes''' (7 November 1914-1998) was a British oil painter of landscapes and figure subjects who later developed an abstract style.
==Biography==
Geddes was born in [[Cheam]] in [[Surrey]] and attended school in [[Eastbourne]].<ref name="BuckmanVol1"></ref> She studied at the [[Westminster School of Art]] in London, where she was taught by both [[Walter Bayes]] and [[Mark Gertler]], from 1930 to 1936.<ref name="GMWaters"></ref> Geddes began exhibiting in group shows while still a student and in 1938 was elected to the National Society of Painters, Sculptors and Gravers.<ref name="GMWaters"/><ref name="Spalding"></ref> During World War II Geddes worked as a draughtsman in the Fire Service Department of the [[Home Office]].<ref name="Spalding"/> After the war, she resumed her exhibition career, showing regularly with the [[London Group]], the [[New English Art Club]], the [[Society of Women Artists]] and at the [[Royal Academy]].<ref name="GMWaters"/> The [[Leicester Galleries]] and the [[Redfern Gallery]] also displayed her work.<ref name="Spalding"/> Her first solo exhibition was hosted by the [[Artists' International Association]] in 1950.<ref name="BuckmanVol1"/> Further solo exhibitions at the Halesworth Gallery in Suffolk and at Teddington in 1973 followed.<ref name="BuckmanVol1"/> From 1951 to 1955 Geddes served as the chairperson of the [[Women's International Art Club]].<ref name="Spalding"/>
Over time, Geddes's painting moved from figuration to abstraction. In 1996 Geddes, with Alzheimer's Disease retired to a nursing home. Retrospectives of her work were held at the Woodlands Art Gallery in 1998 and at Camden Fine Art in Bath the following year.<ref name="BuckmanVol1"/>
==References==
[[Category:1914 births]]
[[Category:1998 deaths]]
[[Category:20th-century English painters]]
[[Category:20th-century British women artists]]
[[Category:Alumni of the Westminster School of Art]]
[[Category:English women painters]]
[[Category:People from Cheam]]
'''Margaret Geddes''' (7 November 1914-1998) was a British oil painter of landscapes and figure subjects who later developed an abstract style.
==Biography==
Geddes was born in [[Cheam]] in [[Surrey]] and attended school in [[Eastbourne]].<ref name="BuckmanVol1"></ref> She studied at the [[Westminster School of Art]] in London, where she was taught by both [[Walter Bayes]] and [[Mark Gertler]], from 1930 to 1936.<ref name="GMWaters"></ref> Geddes began exhibiting in group shows while still a student and in 1938 was elected to the National Society of Painters, Sculptors and Gravers.<ref name="GMWaters"/><ref name="Spalding"></ref> During World War II Geddes worked as a draughtsman in the Fire Service Department of the [[Home Office]].<ref name="Spalding"/> After the war, she resumed her exhibition career, showing regularly with the [[London Group]], the [[New English Art Club]], the [[Society of Women Artists]] and at the [[Royal Academy]].<ref name="GMWaters"/> The [[Leicester Galleries]] and the [[Redfern Gallery]] also displayed her work.<ref name="Spalding"/> Her first solo exhibition was hosted by the [[Artists' International Association]] in 1950.<ref name="BuckmanVol1"/> Further solo exhibitions at the Halesworth Gallery in Suffolk and at Teddington in 1973 followed.<ref name="BuckmanVol1"/> From 1951 to 1955 Geddes served as the chairperson of the [[Women's International Art Club]].<ref name="Spalding"/>
Over time, Geddes's painting moved from figuration to abstraction. In 1996 Geddes, with Alzheimer's Disease retired to a nursing home. Retrospectives of her work were held at the Woodlands Art Gallery in 1998 and at Camden Fine Art in Bath the following year.<ref name="BuckmanVol1"/>
==References==
[[Category:1914 births]]
[[Category:1998 deaths]]
[[Category:20th-century English painters]]
[[Category:20th-century British women artists]]
[[Category:Alumni of the Westminster School of Art]]
[[Category:English women painters]]
[[Category:People from Cheam]]
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