For Master Drawings New York this year, London dealer Martyn Gregory is focusing on one female artist and her output during her extensive (and, for the time, very intrepid) travels around the world.
Hilda May Gordon: A Colourist Abroad, looks at the works made during a six-year world tour from 1922-28, which ended in an exhibition in New York before she returned home in March that year.
“It is 45 years since I acquired a substantial number of Hilda May’s drawings and watercolours from her estate,” says Gregory. “Having taken part in MDNY before with early British drawings, by way of a change it seemed appropriate to show this indomitable woman’s work in the very city she ended her epic, six-year journey.”