Margaret Mellis, Date of Birth, Date of Death

    

Margaret Mellis

British artist

Date of Birth: 22-Jan-1914

Date of Death: 17-Mar-2009

Profession: painter

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius


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About Margaret Mellis

  • Margaret Nairne Mellis (22 January 1914 – 17 March 2009) was a British artist, one of the early members and last survivors of the group of modernist artists that gathered in St Ives, in Cornwall, in the 1940s.
  • She and her first husband, Adrian Stokes, played an important role in the rise of St Ives as a magnet for artists.
  • She later married Francis Davison, also an artist, and became a mentor to the young Damien Hirst.

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