13 Facts About Catherine Yarrow

Catherine Yarrow was an English artist known for printmaking, painting, ceramics and pottery in a surrealist mode.

Catherine Yarrow studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, graduating in 1925.

Catherine Yarrow studied etching at Atelier 17, a workshop established in Paris by Stanley William Hayter, an English printmaker, in 1929.

Catherine Yarrow later discussed the importance of pottery in the development of her career: 'It wasn't until I came to the pottery that I had any craft.

Catherine Yarrow used art as a way to cope with her anxiety, creating pieces with somber tones that reflected how she felt.

Together with many other Surrealist artists fleeing the war, in 1940 Catherine Yarrow moved to New York, where she lived until 1948.

Catherine Yarrow's move to New York was prompted in part by Hayter's relocation of Atelier 17 to the city in 1940, and she continued to associate there with surrealists in exile such as Ernst, Carrington and Andre Breton.

In New York, Catherine Yarrow's straightened financial circumstances prompted her to start experimenting with making leather goods; these enabled her to make a living.

Catherine Yarrow's pottery was considered to be experimental, both visible in her ceramic sculptures as well as her pottery which had themes of simple shapes, symbols, and balance throughout her pieces.

In 1944 Catherine Yarrow was included in the exhibition New Directions in Gravure: Hayter and Studio 17 at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, which traveled for two years across the United States.

In 1950 Catherine Yarrow had an exhibition at the Hanover Gallery in London.

In 2017, a pen and ink drawing by Catherine Yarrow was included in the exhibition 31 Women by Breese Little gallery, an homage to Guggenheim's 1943 exhibition of women surrealists.

In 2018, Catherine Yarrow's ceramics featured in the Collect 2018 exhibition Masters of Studio Pottery, co-curated by the Crafts Council and the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.