Erica White (artist)

Erica Mildred White (13 June 1904 – 1991) was a British sculptor and portrait painter.

Erica White
Born	Erica Mildred White (1904-06-13)June 13, 1904 Ealing, London
Died	1991 (aged 86–87) Bexhill-on-Sea, Sussex
Alma mater	Slade School of Fine Art Central School of Arts and Crafts Royal Academy Schools
Known for	Sculpture

Biography

White was born in Ealing, now a part of London, to a mother from Sussex and a father who was a solicitor from Somerset.^[1] After attending St George's School in Harpenden, White studied at the Slade School of Fine Art in central London, where she won a painting prize.^[2] After the Slade, White entered the Central School of Arts and Crafts and was awarded a sculpture scholarship before studying at the Royal Academy Schools where she won silver and bronze medals and a Feodora Gleichen memorial grant.^[1][2][3] After graduating White created sculpture figures, heads and busts in stone, clay and bronze as well as painting portraits in both oils and pastels.^[1] Between 1925 and 1959, she was a regular exhibitor at the Royal Academy in London and also had works shown at the Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts, with the Society of Women Artists, the Royal West of England Academy and at commercial galleries in southern England.^[1][3][4] White was an elected Fellow of the Royal Society of British Sculptors.^[2]

For many years White lived at Hampstead in north London and then had a studio at Kingsdown in Kent before spending her later years at Bexhill-on-Sea in Sussex.^[1][2]

References

1. Sara Gray (2019). British Women Artists. A Biographical Dictionary of 1000 Women Artists in the British Decorative Arts. Dark River. ISBN 978-1-911121-63-3.
2. David Buckman (2006). Artists in Britain Since 1945 Vol 2, M to Z. Art Dictionaries Ltd. ISBN 0-953260-95-X.
3. James Mackay (1977). The Dictionary of Western Sculptors in Bronze. Antique Collectors' Club. ISBN 0902028553.
4. University of Glasgow History of Art / HATII (2011). "Miss E.M. White". Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain & Ireland 1851–1951. Retrieved 2 April 2021.

Further reading

• Dictionary of British Artists Working 1900–1950 by Grant M. Waters (1975), published by Eastbourne Fine Art