ARTIST SHOT

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 300, 1 December 1936, Page 3

ARTIST SHOT

English Girl’s End in Spain memorial showing (Own Correspondent—By Air Mail.) LONDON, Oct. 16. A memorial exhibition of drawings by Felicia Brown, a young Bloomsbury artist, who was killed during active service on the Catalan front, was opened at 46, Frith Street, W., yesterday. Some of the hundreds of remarkable works shown were done in Spanish barracks and villages, and are wonderfully vivid records of the struggle. Collected after her death, they were flown over in time for the exhibition. Felicia Brown was born at Thames Ditton hi 1901 and studied at the Slade School. Last July before the revolution broke out, she went on a “painting journey.’’ fehe had spent years travelling among the peasants of Europe, through Germany, Czecho-Slovakia, Russian and Hungary, paying for hospitality by drawing portraits of her hosts. Thousands of her drawings are probably scattered in poor homes throughout Europe. She was shot through the head at Huesea, on the Catalan front, while attempting to rescue a Government militiaman who had been wounded and left behind during a night engagement. Lord Hastings, opening the exhibition, said that Felicia Brown had with her when she died a copy of Dante’s “Divine Comedy.” She was symbolic of the struggle against I'ascist forces that were trying to overthrow all culture, all knowledge and all art. Her cottage in Kent was a refuge lor the friends she had made in Germany. Many owed their lives and safety to her. Proceeds from the exhibition would ii<> to the British Medical Aid Unit in Spain, which was “doing magnificent work near (Saragossa. ’’