Kathleen Guthrie (English, 1905-1981)

Born in Feltham, Middlesex, Kathleen Guthrie trained at the Slade School of Art and Royal Academy Schools. In 1927, she married the artist Robin Guthrie and migrated to America in 1931. In 1932, she had her first solo exhibition at the Grace Horne Gallery in Boston. The Guthrie family returned to England the following year and settled in Sussex but the pair got divorced in 1937. In 1941, Guthrie married Cecil Stephenson, an abstract artist, and the two settled in Hampstead. Kathleen Guthrie embraced abstraction throughout this time. In addition to painting, Guthrie created silkscreens of her husband's most famous designs as well as her own abstract pieces, especially striking is her series of abstract silkscreens with combinations of pure colour, titled Camelot and created throughout the 1960s.

Guthrie was a member of the London Group and showed at the Royal Academy, her solo shows in London (1947) and Manchester (1951) were well-reviewed and considered very successful.