Miss Joan Ophelia Gordon Bell
Other names: Joan Ophelia Gordon Cooper, Joan Heaton Cooper
Born 1915
Died 1975
Active: 1936 - 1939
Sculptor
Born in London. She was the daughter of Winifred Joan Ophelia Gordon Bell, animal painter, and was married to William Heaton Cooper (1903-1995), the owner of the Heaton Cooper Gallery in Grasmere. Gordon Bell studied at Regent Street Polytechnic in the 1930s.
Works
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The Ride of the Valkyries
1936
Saint Giles
1937
One horse rider
1937
Ride of the Valkyrie
1938
Virginia and Diana, daughters of Thomas Nicholson, Esq.
1939
Exhibitions, Meetings, Awards and other Events
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, The One-Hundred-and-Tenth, 1936
Multiple works
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, The One-Hundred-and-Eleventh, 1937
'One horse rider'
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, The One-Hundred-and-Thirteenth, 1939
'Virginia and Diana, daughters of Thomas Nicholson, Esq.'
Exhibited at Palace of Arts Empire Exhibition Scotland, 1938
1938
Sources
Palace of Arts
Empire Exhibition
Scotland
1938
The Fine Art Section of the Empire Exhibition
1938
Citing this record
'Miss Joan Ophelia Gordon Bell', 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=msib6_1210672903, accessed 25 Mar 2023]
