Dried Sunflowers Still Lifes the scion of two of

the scion of two of New York’s wealthiest families

Medium Details: Ink and crackle glaze on 640 textured watercolour paper

Dated 1964

A successful painter and educator

Dried Sunflowers Still Lifes the scion of two ofAn artist whose career mirrors so many of her generation. Pat Algar studied at Wimbledon School of Art and the Royal Academy in the 1960s, a bright and promising student she married soon after graduation and moved to Cornwall never to be heard of again. Her studio sale in a Cornish auction house said as much as any museum retrospective could about the trajectory of her career. Most of the lots were painted in the last forty years of her life and