Nancy Mona Carline was a British artist who painted landscapes with figures, portraits, biblical and classical subjects plus groups of figures in domestic settings.
12 Facts About Nancy Carline
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Nancy Carline studied at the Slade School of Art and worked at the Sadlers Wells Ballet and later attended the stage design course at the Slade run by Vladimir Polunin.
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Nancy Carline was born in London, to a British father and an Australian mother.
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For two seasons, from 1933, Nancy Carline worked, on an unpaid basis, in the costume department at the Sadlers wells ballet.
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Vladimir Polunin encouraged her to take the course he was teaching in stage design at the Slade and Nancy Carline returned to the art school.
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Richard Nancy Carline was the youngest of the five children born to the artist George Francis Nancy Carline and Anne Smith.
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Nancy Carline's 1946 painting Supper on the Terrace shows the Carline family of artists at their Pond Street home in Hampstead.
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Nancy Carline continued to show at the New English Art Club, which had been founded in 1886 as a pro-French counter-influence to the stuffiness of the Royal Academy; but with a fine indifference to history, she showed at RA summer shows as well.
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Nancy Carline remained an advocate of art education throughout her life.
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Nancy Carline exhibited regularly with the Royal Academy, the London Group during the 1930s and from 1957 to 1959, the New English Art Club, the Artists' International Association, and the Wildenstein Gallery in 1946.
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Nancy Carline continued to paint, including seascapes painted on the Isle of Portland during summer holidays with Francis and his family.
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Nancy Carline died in a nursing home in Wallingford in 2004.