Margaret RICHARDSON
Silver jewellery
Margaret Richardson's stamp - no image of the artist being available
Brief note on the artist
Margaret Richardson was a very private person who did not seek much publicity, hence the lacuna on her past. She appears to have been apprenticed at the Fachschule Schwäbisch-Gmünd, then worked in her home town Königsberg and Gmünd, moving from Germany to live in Palestine in the 1930s. She only came to South Africa after WW2.
She had a small studio at 909 Philadelphia Court, von Weilligh Street, near the GPO in Jeppe Street, Johannesburg, until the early 1970s. Most of her work was done in Sterling silver, very occasionally she was also commissioned for an item in gold.
She left South Africa for the U.K. shortly after that and died in the UK in the mid-1970s.
Selected Exhibitions
1961
Helen de Leeuw’s Gallery, Hamilton‘s, Pretoria (hand-made jewelry by 7 South African craftsmen), opened in June 1961 by Phyllis Konya: Margaret Richardson, Else Wongtchowski, Kurt Jobst, Eone de Wet, Johan van Heerden and Gilroy King.
1965
Gallery 101, Rand Central, 165 Jeppe Street, Johannesburg – ground floor gallery – permanent display as from September, 1965 until the 1970s
Press
South African Art News and Review, Johannesburg: Vol. I No. 7, 20th July, 1961, p. 5
Goldschmied Zeitung 68(4), 1970, p. 416 ("Arbeiten aus Südafrika") (Eberhard Dechow) (PDF)
"The Jewish Report", Johannesburg, 24th -31st October, 2008.
Items sold on international auctions
Dreweatts1759: 20th Cent. Design & Decorative Arts, Donnington Priory, Newbury Berkshire UK - 24th June, 2008
Dreweatts1860: Decorative Arts, Donnington Priory, Newbury Berkshire UK - 8th June, 2010 - Part Lots 180/181
Web references
http://www.pelmama.org/Johannesburg_artscene_Gallery101_history.htm
http://www.scarabantiques.com/
http://sagoldsmiths.blogspot.com/2011/07/south-african-goldsmiths-erich-frey.html (see Note 77)
A selection of jewellery by Margaret Richardson
Further selected items on this link!
See also items sold on auction in the U.K. in 2008 - (PDF)
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Last updated - 20th September, 2011