Nan Youngman and Pictures for Schools (2025) (Limited Edition)

This title will be released on 12th May 2025

Limited edition of 50 numbered copies

Nan Youngman’s life was guided by the friends she made and each of these people affected her future in different ways: from her family, her time at the Slade School of Art and then teacher training under Marion Richardson; to meeting Betty Rea, her partner. In the 1940s Nan was working as the Education Art Advisor under Henry Morris for Cambridge County Council where she was able to trial a plan to bring paintings into schools with the purchase of a L.S. Lowry painting; aiming for something more ambitious than the Schools Prints lithographs. These modern paintings were used in schools to develop the creative mind, as teaching aids and social education. To make it a national scheme Nan organised annual art exhibitions from 1947-1969 so the Councils of England, and later Wales, could buy the best of contemporary British Art. In this volume you can discover the rise and fall of some of the Councils’ collections, as well as the biography of Nan her personal life and the people she knew, such as: Roger Fry, Henry Tonks, Bryan Robertson, and Lucy Carrington Wertheim.