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Sylvia Plath: Her Drawings and Dadamaino: Volumes at the Mayor Gallery

LONDON.- The Mayor Gallery is showing work by two prominent women artists of the 20th Century. Both Sylvia Plath and Dadamaino left a strong mark on the world, expressing themselves in very different ways, yet producing work during the same time frame. The exhibition will show pieces from 1955-1962. 44 never exhibited before drawings by Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) will illustrate the strong connection between her writing and artwork. The carefully constructed, pen and ink drawings, which were given to Plath’s daughter, the artist Frieda Hughes, by her father some years before he died, date from 1955, a pivotal period for Plath as she graduated from Smiths College, Massachusetts and won a Fulbright scholarship to Newham College, Cambridge, in England. It was here that she met and ultimately married Ted Hughes (1956) and during the Cambridge years she travelled in Europe, recording what she saw