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A Life Between Worlds: The Enigmatic Ithell Colquhoun Born in the distant landscapes of Shillong, Assam, British India, in 1906, Margaret Ithell Colquhoun embarked on a life that would defy easy categorization. Her early years were marked by a profound sense of displacement—a common experience for children of the Raj sent back to England for education. This initial severance from her birthplace instilled within her a lifelong fascination with liminal spaces, both geographical and psychological, which would deeply inform her artistic vision. Educated at Cheltenham Ladies’ College, she demonst…
A chart of Ithell Colquhoun's corpus mapped not by date but by subject. Spokes are what they painted; rings are when; and the threads between stars reveal the patrons and places that secretly connect them.
Each arm of the atlas gathers works by what they depict: portraits, sacred scenes, mythologies, and the scientific studies. Click a spoke to swing that cluster to the top.
Distance from the center marks time. The innermost ring is the earliest period; the outermost, the final years. Style matures as you move outward.
Coloured lines link works bound by the same patron, commission, or theme. Trace a context to watch related clusters light up across subjects.
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