10 Facts About Frances Hodgkins

Frances Mary Hodgkins was a New Zealand painter chiefly of landscape, and for a short period was a designer of textiles.

Frances Hodgkins was considered to be a key figure in British Modernism, considered one of New Zealand's most prestigious and influential painters.

Frances Hodgkins returned to New Zealand in 1903 and established a teaching studio in Wellington, where she held a joint exhibition with Richmond in 1904.

In Europe, Frances Hodgkins held her first solo show at the Paterson's Gallery in London in 1907 and moved to Paris in 1908.

Frances Hodgkins herself began to paint in oils in 1915.

In 1925, Frances Hodgkins started work as a fabric designer at the Calico Printers' Association in Manchester and during her employment visited the Exposition Internationale des Arts Decoratifs in Paris.

Frances Hodgkins was highly regarded by British avant-garde society and in the later stages of her career was known as a key figure in British Modernism.

Frances Hodgkins continued to paint into her seventies, despite suffering from rheumatism and bronchitis.

Frances Hodgkins died in Dorchester, Dorset on 13 May 1947.

The Frances Hodgkins Fellowship, established in 1962 at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand, is named after her.