Molly Peacock on Late Life Creativity
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08.12.2011
Imagine beginning your life's work at age 72. In the 1770's, Mary Delaney invented the medium we now call collage. Her collection of botanically-correct floral collages is today housed in the British Museum. Poet Molly Peacock fell in love with the work and the artist and has written a meditation on both and on late-life creativity.
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A Woman Becomes An Artist in her Eighth Decade
[Adapted from Chapter One]
Imagine starting your life's work at seventy-two. At just that age, Mary Granville Pendarves Delany (May 14, 1700-April 15, 1788), a fan of George Frideric Handel, a sometime dinner partner of satirist Jonathan Swift, a wearer of green-hooped satin gowns, and a fiercely devoted subject of blond King George III, invented a precursor of what we know as collage.
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molly peacock on mary delaney and the paper garden
there seems to be no access to illustrations, though they were mentioned in the radio broadcast.
Paper garden
The story on Mary Delaney's art said there were pictures on the site--can't find them. Thanks.
One Picture of Mary Delaney's art in the excerpt.
One of the illustrations in the excerpt can be double clicked on to enlarge the image for a closer look at her art.
link to Delany collection
http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/search_the_collection_database/sea...
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