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Joan Hargreaves A.R.C.A. died in February this year, aged 86, leaving a
considerable body of work, that has now been donated to the archives of
Manchester Metropolitan University and the Whitworth Art Gallery.
The Joan Hargreaves web site will include not only her work, but biographical
details and historic and family history background, augmented with photographic
images. Those who knew her will be able to add reminiscences.
These can be logged even now by emailing:
emailmalvern@aol.com
Below you will find examples of her paintings and drawings going back to
the early 1940's, with other historical imagery; these added to occasionally
and later transferred to the web site.
Enjoy these and please visit her future web site.
This page last updated: April 2nd. 2007.
To see more of Joan and her work, click here for the WMC Life Class.
1920- 2007.
Born at Facit,
Joan Hargreaves began her art study at Rochdale School of Art in
1937. By 1941 she was taking drawing and painting with mural art
at the Municipal School of Art Manchester. In 1946 she was awarded
a Royal Scholarship on entrance to
where she studied until1949.
Early in her career she was a member of the Manchester Group.
L.S. Lowry was a member too; an acquaintance whom she recalled
attending meetings, and occasionally giving lectures after his
rounds as a rent collector. The Group, chaired by her friend the
wood engraver Margaret Pilkington of the philanthropic Pilkington
Glass family, met at the Whitworth Art Gallery, also run by Margaret Pilkington. Joan exhibited regularly with L. S. Lowry and the
Manchester Group at Ned Owen's Mid-Day Studios, the Manchester
Ballet Club, travelling Arts Council exhibitions, the M
UMIST. She stayed in
would include those at The Royal Albert Hall, and with the London
Group, while still exhibiting at Manchester. She moved back to
Lancashire until the mid-1960s, when she returned to London.
She taught in various art schools and colleges and lately lectured
on anatomy with movement at the Slade School of Fine Art Summer School. In fact she was an acknowledged authority on combining
these disciplines informed by her association with the ballet; an
expertise nowadays rarely found. These were encouraged for many
years within her own course ‘Anatomy, Life and Movement,' the
only one of its type in
To her classes she attracted prosessional painters, sculptors,
architects, and those studying within higher and adult education,.
Joan Hargreaves never ceased working, lately mainly drawing.
As a respected source on art anatomy and movement in figure
drawing, she offered instruction regularly.
She continued to exhibit, with others and in one-woman shows.
sketches and mural designs, from the 1940s / early 1950s, and later drawings from the past ten years.
finished painting right.
and associated correspondence.
Nov 20th 1939, at age nineteen.
St. Philip's Elementary School,
Manchester. July 1944.
Joan 24 years old.
September 1944.
Nov. 1944. She is standing on the left.
a group of school boys.
Royal College of Art in 1946.
at the family home Abbotsford, Facit,
Included are Joan's 2xGtGd mother and 3xGtGd mother.
Painting probably mid 19th century.
