Draft:Kanty Cooper
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Katherine (Kanty) Cooper (1904-1993) was a British modernist sculptor, author and humanitarian.
Cooper was born on 31 March 1904 to architect John Paul Cooper and May Morgan Oliver. She had two younger siblings who similarly followed the family's artistic tradition: metalworker Francis John Caedmon Cooper (1906–1980) and artist Ursula Brock (1913–1993).[1]
Cooper studied sculpture under Henry Moore at the Royal College of Art.[2][3] Although principally known as sculptor working in the direct method, Copper's early work included painting and murals. She worked with arts and crafts architect Basil Oliver, providing murals for his Croach's House in Ide Hill.[4]
In the late 1920s, she worked in a studio rented from artist Eric Kennington at Durham Wharf. In 1926, filmmaker and sculptor Len Lye arrived in London from New Zealand and shared the same studio for several years.[5] Cooper exhibited her sculpture in the 9th (1929) and 10th (1931) editions of the Seven and Five Society exhibition.[6]
Cooper (and her then lover John Aldridge) accompanied Lye and his soon to be wife Jane Thompson to Paris in December 1929 to meet Gertrude Stein before travelling on to Mallorca for an extended stay with Laura Riding and Robert Graves in Deya.[7]
By 1937, Cooper's career was advancing with her first sculpture selling (purchased by writer Naomi Mitcheson) and interest from galleries and museums[2]; however, her career came to a close through her volunteering work with the Quaker humanitarian aid efforts in the Spanish Civil War. After volunteering at the refugee camp in Southampton, Cooper travelled to Barcelona at the beginning of 1938 to work with the Quaker-led International Commission for the Care of Spanish Refugees.[8] Her principal work was in canteen provisions.[9]
In 1979, Cooper published an account of her humanitarian work (including later episodes in Greece, Germany and Jordan), The uprooted: Agony and triumph among the debris of war with Quartet Books.
Cooper retired in the 1960s to Dedham where she purchased and restored the Grade II listed building Pennypot Cottage, saving it from demolition.[10]
She died on 15 July 1993 at Dedham.
A fictionalized Cooper appears in Maggie Brook's novel, Acts of Love and War.[11]
References
[edit]- ^ Kuzmanović, N. Natasha (1999). John Paul Cooper: designer and craftsman of the arts & crafts movements. Stroud: Sutton Publishing. p. 170. ISBN 978-0-7509-2088-9.
- ^ a b Cooper, Kanty (1979). The uprooted : agony and triumph among the debris of war. London: Quartet. p. 2. ISBN 9780704321946.
- ^ Horrocks, Roger (2001). Len Lye: a biography. Auckland, N.Z: Auckland University Press. p. 107. ISBN 978-1-86940-247-1.
- ^ Phillips, R. Randal (26 November 1927). "The Lesser Country Houses of To-Day: Croach's Ide Hill, near Sevenoaks". Country House. LXII (1610): 789–790.
- ^ Horrocks, Roger (2002). Len Lye: a biography (Reprint ed.). New Auckland: University Press. p. 107. ISBN 978-1-86940-247-1.
- ^ Gerrish, Willoughby (2014). The Seven and Five Society 1920-1935. Fine Art Society. p. 86. ISBN 9781907052439.
- ^ Horrocks, Roger (2001). Len Lye: a biography. Auckland, N.Z: Auckland University Press. p. 138. ISBN 978-1-86940-247-1.
- ^ Palfreeman, Linda (April 2022). "British Quaker Aid to Spanish Republican Exiles in Concentration Camps in the South of France (1939–1940)". Religions. 13 (4): 312. doi:10.3390/rel13040312. ISSN 2077-1444.
- ^ Holmes, Rose (2015-02-18). A moral business: British Quaker work with refugees from fascism, 1933-39 (thesis thesis). University of Sussex.
- ^ Archer, Lucy (May 2021). "Dedham's West End PART 1". Dedham Parish Magazine: 18–21.
- ^ "Acts of Love and War by Maggie Brookes". Unseen Histories. Retrieved 11 January 2025.
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