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Madge Oliver (18 September 1875 – 11 September 1924) was an English painter who specialised in interiors, still lifes and landscapes painted in France, where she settled for health reasons. She was born in Knaresborough, Yorkshire, and studied at the Slade School of Art in London from 1894 to 1898, where she won a scholarship in 1896–1897.[1][2][3]
Madge moved to France in 1910 and settled in Cassis, near Marseille.[4] She was awarded the Gold Cross by the French government for her work during the First World War,[1] and exhibited at the Galerie Druet in Paris in 1924.[4] Her art was influenced by the French intimisme movement of the late 19th and early 20th century, depicting banal, personal domestic scenes, particularly those within domestic interiors.[2]
Madge died in Corsica on 11 September 1924. A memorial exhibition for her was held at the Leger Galleries in London in 1935.[3] Writing in the foreword to the catalogue, the Scottish painter Dame Ethel Walker described Madge as a “a great painter”, and admired her “free handling of paint, and a breadth of design in her compositions”.[2]
