
Text source: 'Artists in Britain Since 1945' by David Buckman (Art Dictionaries Ltd, part of Sansom & Company)
1884–1947
British, English, French
Text source: 'Artists in Britain Since 1945' by David Buckman (Art Dictionaries Ltd, part of Sansom & Company)
This rapid success marked the beginning of a productive career, and she went on to exhibit regularly from 1912 until the year of her death – 24 times at the RA’s Summer Exhibition alone, as well as at the RGI, the SWA, Society of Graphic Art, Venice Biennale, in Adelaide and Melbourne and at the Paris Salon – winning a gold medal for The Chenille Net in 1947.
Often using herself as the model, Green made paintings noted at the time for their overt femininity and enigmatic subjects, which investigated how notions of sexuality and gender could be explored through modernist art.
Madeline Emily Green [commonly known as Madeline Green] was born in Paddington, London, England on 27 August 1884 and studied art at the Royal Academy Schools in London from 1906 to 1911. In her final year she was awarded a silver medal and a bronze medal. She subsequently established a studio near her home in The Mall, Ealing, London, where she worked as a painter, primarily of figurative subjects.
She exhibited at the Royal Academy in London from 1912 to 1943 and the Society of Women Artists in London from 1916 to 1939. Her work was also shown at the International Society of Sculptors, Painters & Gravers in London; Manchester City Art Gallery; Royal Hibernian Academy in Dublin; Royal Scottish Academy in Edinburgh; Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts; the Paris Salon; and at the Venice Biennale.
In 1921 she participated in the inaugural exhibition of the Society of Graphic Art at the Suffolk Gallery in London. She was elected a member of the Society of Women Artists (SWA) in 1923. She was also a member of the Women's Guild of Arts.
She lived at 40 The Mall, Ealing London until c.1940 when she moved to Sutton Bridge in Lincolnshire and then, in c.1942, to The Gardens, Melton Constable Park, Norfolk. Soon after she moved to Sloley in Norfolk.
She died in Norwich, Norfolk on 17 February 1947. Exhibitions of her work have been held at PM Gallery in Ealing, London in 1911 and at Gunnersbury Park Museum, near Acton, London in 2022.
Text source: Art History Research net (AHR net)