THE POEM
signed M.E. Kindon lower left
oil on canvas
76.5 x 101.8cm; 30 1/4 x 40 1/4in
110.5 x 132cm; 43 1/2 x 52in (framed)

Property from a Private Collection, Cumbria

Provenance
Sale, Sotheby's Belgravia, London, 22 September 1981, lot 273
Sale, Christie's, London, 3 June 1999, lot 78 (purchased by the present owner)

Born in Southwark, Kindon was the daughter of a floorcloth manufacturer. She worked in watercolours and oils and lived for many years in and around Bushey in Hertfordshire. A prolific exhibitor, her work was featured in exhibitions throughout Great Britain, including at the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists, the Royal Glasgow Institute of Fine Arts, the Manchester Academy of Fine Arts, the Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin and the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool. In London she showed at the Royal Academy, the Royal Society of British Artists, the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours, the Royal Institute of Oil Painters, the London Salon, the Society of Women Artists, and the Bushey Society of Artists. She died in Watford, Hertfordshire.