Georgie Evelyn Cave Gaskin
Other names: France
Born 1866
Died 29 October 1934
Active: 1889 - 1916
Country of birth and death: England
Modeller, silversmith, jeweller, jewellery designer
Born in Belle Vue, Shropshire. She as the daughter of William Hanmer France (born c.1840 in Pontesbury, Shropshire) a contractor's agent and the manager of a charity institute in Solihull in 1891. Georgie studied at Birmingham School of Art and from about 1888 was winning prizes for her designs for needlework, wallpaper, and metalwork. She met Arthur Joseph Gaskin at the school and they were married in 1894. They worked collaboratively illustrating books and designing jewellery. Crawford (2004) states that Georgie did all the designing, Arthur contributed enamelwork, and they both made the pieces with assistants. From the early 1900s Arthur also designed metalwork and became head of the Vittoria Street School for Jewellers and Silversmiths. Georgie continued to produce increasingly richly ornamented jewellery (the largest collection is in Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery). Arthur retired from teaching in 1924 and they moved to Chipping Campden in Gloucestershire. There Arthur returned to wood-engraving and painting in tempera while Georgie designed jewellery. She moved to West Malling, in Kent after Arthur's death in 1928.
Wealth at death: £14,306 10s. 2d.
Probate date: 11 December 1934
Works
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Modelled design, in plaster, for rosewater dish and bottle
Modelled design for necklace pendant
Modelled design in wax for panel
Design for Silver Rose-Water Dish
Design for Silver Clasps and Buckles
Case of Jewellery containing two fans by Charles Conder and jewellery by Mrs Gaskin
Case of Jewellery
1900 (Presumed)
Collaborated on Altar Cross
1905 (Presumed)
With Arthur Gaskin, and with the assistance of Miss Lily Dale, A. Jones and J. Morris.
Collaborated on Jewellery
1905
With Arthur Gaskin, and with the assistance of Miss Lily Dale, A. Jones and J. Morris.
Collaborated on Case of Jewellery
1912 (Presumed)
Locations
Address Olton near Solihull | View on map
p. 97
Address The White Cottage West Malling | View on map
Living at this address when she died
Address Marl Green Tysley near Birmingham | View on map
1889 (Presumed)
Address Bushey Lane Solihull Birmingham | View on map
1891 (Circa)
Address Fairlea Victoria Road Birmingham | View on map
1905 (Presumed)
Listed under the home of Mr. A. Gaskin.
Address The Little House Chipping Campden | View on map
1928 (Circa)
Exhibitions, Meetings, Awards and other Events
Exhibited at Exhibition of Fair Women (International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers, London), 1908
Multiple works
Exhibited at Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society: Second Exhibition, 1889
'Modelled design, in plaster, for rosewater dish and bottle'
Exhibited at The Thirty-Fifth Spring Exhibition at the Rooms of the Society, New Street (Royal Birmingham Society of Artists), 1900
'Case of Jewellery'
Exhibited at Leeds City Art Gallery, The Spring Exhibition, 1897
Multiple works
Exhibited at Leeds City Art Gallery, Arts & Crafts Exhibition, 1900
Multiple works
Exhibited at Royal Society of Artists Birmingham Arts and Crafts Exhibition, 1909
1909
Jointly exhibited a case of 53 jewellery objects with Mr A. Gaskin; most of the objects were offered for sale: pp. 5-8 (1-53).
Exhibited at Royal Birmingham Society of Artists [Autumn] Exhibition, 1916
1916
Jointly exhibited a case of jewellery with Mr Gaskin: p. 33 (Case 4, no. 1).
Institutional and Business Connections
Elected professional associate member of Royal Birmingham Society of Artists
1917 - 1923
First listed in the Society's exhibition catalogues as an Associate member in Spring 1917. Was never elecetd to full Membership of the Society.
Member of Bromsgrove Guild
Member of The Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society
1904 (Presumed) - 1907 (Presumed)
Worked for Bromsgrove Guild
1900 (Circa) - 1923 (Circa)
Worked on the 'painted decor' for the Guild's south bedroom in the British Pavillion at the Paris Exposition in 1900. See Townshend 'The Bromsgrove Guild of Applied Arts', in Watt 'The Bromsgrove Guild', (1999), p. 16. Gaskin made the silver candlesticks for a Bromsgrove Guild commission - a private chapel at Mansfield Court (work on the chapel was carried out between 1902 and 1923). See Goodwin and Townshend, 'The Workers at the Bromsgrove Guild' in Watt 'The Bromsgrove Guild', (1999), p. 54.
Personal and Professional Connections
Assistant was James Morris
1901 (Circa) - 1910 (Circa)
Dates of employment based on information submitted by Stephanie Higgs.
Assistant was Lily Dale
1905 (Presumed)
Assistant was A. Jones
1905 (Presumed)
Collaborated with Arthur Joseph Gaskin
1909 - 1916
Jointly exhibited a case of 53 jewellery objects in the RBSA's Arts and Crafts Exhibition (1909) and a case of jewellery in the RBSA's Autumn exhibition (1916).
Wife/husband/spouse to Arthur Joseph Gaskin
Alan Crawford, ‘Gaskin , Georgie Evelyn Cave (1866–1934)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/66046, accessed 2 Feb 2009]
Sources
Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society: List of Members, 1907
1907
Arts and Crafts Society: Catalogue of the Second Exhibition.
1889
p.132, p.192, p.195, p.198, p.242.
Catalogue of the Arts & Crafts Exhibition 1900
1900
Cat. No. 50a, pp. 20, 75
Catalogue of the Spring Exhibition, The City Art Gallery, Leeds 1897
1897
Cat. Nos. 807, 808, 809, 810, pp. 76, 97
Census Returns of England and Wales, 1891
2004
Class: RG12; Piece: 2462; Folio: 61; Page: 5; GSU roll: 6097572
England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1966
2010
Name: Georgie Evelyn Cave Gaskin
Probate Date: 11 Dec 1934
Death Date: 29 Oct 1934
Death Place: Kent, England
Registry: London, England AND her father who named her as his executor
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
2004
Alan Crawford, ‘Gaskin , Georgie Evelyn Cave (1866–1934)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/66046, accessed 2 Feb 2009]
Royal Birmingham Society of Artists. Exhibition, 1916 [Autumn] Royal Birmingham Society of Artists
1916
p. 33.
Royal Society of Artists Birmingham Arts and Crafts Exhibition, 1909
1909
pp. 5-8.
The Bromsgrove Guild. An Illustrated History, 1999
1999
p. 16 and p. 54.
Citing this record
'Georgie Evelyn Cave Gaskin', Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011 [http://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/person.php?id=msib2_1210860334, accessed 02 Oct 2023]
