Leonora Carrington
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Leonora Carrington OBE (born in 1917) was a British-born Mexican artist, surrealist painter, and novelist.
She spent the bulk of her adult life in Mexico City and was one of the few remaining survivors of the 1930s Surrealist movement.
Carrington was also a founding member of the Women's Liberation Movement in Mexico in the 1970s.
Early life
Mary Leonora Carrington was born in a Roman Catholic family at Westwood House, Chorley, Lancashire, England. Harold Wylde Carrington (1880-1950) was a wealthy textile manufacturer, and her mother Marie (née Moorhead) was from Ireland. Patrick, Gerald, and Arthur were three brothers. She lived at Crookhey Hall from 1920 to 1927, a large home in Cockerham that had a major influence on her imagination.
She was kicked out of two colleges, including New Hall School in Chelmsford, for her rebellious behavior, until her family brought her to Florence, where she attended Mrs Penrose's Academy of Art. She attended St Mary's convent school in Ascot for a brief time. She saw her first Surrealist painting in a Left Bank gallery in Paris in 1927 and later met many Surrealists, including Paul Éluard. Her father was opposed to her future as an artist, but her mother encouraged her. She returned to England and appeared at court, but instead of reading, she carried a copy of Aldous Huxley's Eyeless in Gaza (1936). She attended the Chelsea School of Art in London for one year, and with the help of her father's friend Serge Chermayeff, she was able to join the Ozenfant Academy of Fine Arts established in London (1936–38).
Surrection (1936), Herbert Read's book, was sent to her by her mother, but she had no encouragement from her family to pursue an artistic career. Edward James, the Surrealist poet and patron, was the promoter of her art in the United Kingdom; James bought several of her paintings and arranged a retrospective exhibition in New York in 1947; James became the patron of her work. Some artworks are still hanging at James' former family's house, West Dean College in West Dean, West Sussex, although they are now West Dean College.