Portrait · Verna Skelton · 1923

Margaret Watkins ~ Portrait Study (Verna Skelton), 1923. Joseph Mulholland Collection (Glasgow) | src The Guardian

This portrait of Verna Skelton is emblematic of Watkins’ portraits. We see the immediate reference to the Dutch painters, and her extraordinary ability to illuminate her subjects.

A fresh angle: The revolutionary gaze of Margaret Watkins – in pictures: Canadian photographer Margaret Watkins rejected traditional gender roles to become a pioneering modernist photographer with Renaissance flair (The Guardian)

Margaret Watkins ~ Portrait Study (Verna Skelton), 1923 | src ODLP ~ l’œil de la photographie

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