Lot 743: Nan (Anna Hope) Hudson, American 1869-1957- River

Nan (Anna Hope) Hudson, American 1869-1957- River scene with trees and landscape; oil on canvas board, signed, 36x46.5cm, (may be subject to Droit de Suite) Note: Hudson was friends with Ethel Sands; in 1907 Walter Sickert asked them both to join the Fitzroy Street Group. Neither Hudson nor Sands was invited to join the Camden Town Group in 1911 following the rule introduced that no women members should be allowed. By this stage, however, they were familiar faces among the artistic circles of London, and Hudson exhibited her work at the New English Art Club, the Allied Artists' Association and the Leicester Galleries. In 1912 she held a joint show with Sands at the Carfax Gallery, the same exhibiting space of the Camden Town Group, which received largely favourable reviews. On the assimilation of the Fitzroy Street with the Camden Town Group in November 1913, they were both among the founder members of the London Group with whom Hudson exhibited periodically until 1938.