MAPPING JOSEFINA

Project

  • Artist’s Archive part 1

    Cumbria archives hold 26 boxes of Josefina’s papers. They are big boxes – and filled up with folders, envelopes, albums and binders. It is the first task of this project to go through these pages and make lists: lists of sculptures, lists of locations where they might be found, lists of names and dates and…

    Alice Sage

  • Introduction

    Josefina de Vasconcellos (1904–2005) was a Brazilian-British sculptor, trained in London, Paris and Florence. In 1944, she was one of the first women elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Sculptors, and she exhibited internationally throughout her lifetime. From the 1930s until her death at age 100, Josefina lived in the Lake District; first in…

    Alice Sage

    Introduction