Work of the week 67: A colourful Christmas with Miss Straub
If you go to the Fry Gallery this week, you will see this selection of cards from Marianne Straub’s scrapbook: 1: Centaur and ballerina by painter, designer and illustrator George Mackie 2: Graphic card from furniture designer and fellow member of the Society of...
Work of the week 66: Marianne’s artistic friends
Work by Marianne Straub’s artistic friends fills many pages of her scrapbook. This double-page spread is on show in the Fry Gallery now. Misha Black drew these cheerful cats (1). One of the key figures in design in the UK in the twentieth century, Misha had a long...
WORK OF THE WEEK 65: HAPPY CHRISTMAS MARIANNE
Marianne Straub preserved Christmas cards and other ephemera in the scrapbook which is on show in the Fry Gallery. Every week we open it at a different page. This week we have cards from: 1 – Hans Fischer. Hans and his wife Bianca (née Wassmuth) met Marianne as...
Work of the Week 64: Marianne Straub, from Bolton to Bardfield
This week’s page from Marianne Straub’s scrapbook, on show in the Fry Art Gallery, tells us more about the extent of her friendship circle. During the time that Marianne lived in Great Bardfield, in the 1950s and 1960s, she became firm friends with the local artists,...