Nina Carroll
{{Short description|British painter (1932–1990)}}
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| birth_date = {{Birth date|df=y|1932|09|20}}
| birth_place = United Kingdom
| death_date = January 1990 (age 57)
| death_place = Oxfordshire
| resting_place = Wolvercote Cemetery
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| known_for = Watercolour landscapes
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Nina Carroll (1932–1990, aka Nina Steane) was a British painter.
Carroll studied art at the Cheltenham School of Art and then studied English Literature at Oxford University, where she joined the Ruskin School of Art.{{cite web| url=https://www.hargravefineart.co.uk/nina-carroll/ |title=Nina Carroll | website=Hargrave Fine Art | location=UK | access-date=6 March 2024 }}
Carroll held exhibitions in Northamptonshire, Oxfordshire, London, and elsewhere in the United Kingdom and abroad.{{cite web| url=https://www.paintingsbyninacarroll.co.uk/home/nina-s-cv |title=Nina Carroll CV | website=Paintings by Nina Carroll | location=UK | access-date=6 March 2024 }} She exhibited her work in group shows at Christie's (London), the Medici Gallery (London), New English Art Club, Royal Academy, the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours, the Royal Society of Portrait Painters, and the Royal West of England Academy, the Serpentine Gallery, the Victoria and Albert Museum, and other places. During 1975 to 1990, Carroll held solo exhibitions at Alfred East Art Gallery (Kettering), Bristol Art Gallery, Woodstock Museum, the Oxford Playhouse, Northampton Central Art Gallery, Banbury Museum, Devizes Museum, and Cogges Manor Farm Museum, among other places. Her work is in the collections of Balliol College, Oxford, Borough of Kettering, Green College, Oxford, Guildhall Museum (Northampton), Law Library (Oxford), Taylorian Institution (Oxford). Her works have been sold through Mallams and Sotheby's.{{cite web| url=https://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2008/a-great-british-collection-the-pictures-collected-by-sir-david-and-lady-scott-sold-to-benefit-the-finnis-scott-foundation-l08137/lot.234.html |title=Nina Carroll | publisher=Sotheby's | access-date=6 March 2024 }} Most of her work consists of colourful landscape watercolours.{{cite web| url=https://www.invaluable.com/artist/carroll-nina-f8rq8m9lmb/sold-at-auction-prices/ | title=Nina Carroll Sold at Auction Prices | website=Invaluable.com | access-date=6 March 2024 }}{{cite web| url=https://www.artnet.com/artists/nina-carroll/ | title=Nina Carroll | website=Artnet | access-date=6 March 2024 }}
Personal life
After studying at Oxford, Carroll married John Steane, headmaster and archaeologist. They had three children together. Initially, they lived in Liverpool and then Southport. In 1964, they moved to Kettering, Northamptonshire, and in 1976 they moved to Oxfordshire.
She died of cancer at the age of 57. She is buried in Wolvercote Cemetery under her married name of "Steane" with her son, alongside other literary figures such as J.R.R. Tolkien.{{citation| first=Tony | last=Shaw | title=Wolvercote Cemetery, Oxford #2: Nina Steane | date=25 March 2017 | work=Mainly the Obscure, and/or mainly 'Outsider' Literature }}
Books
- Adventures on the Moon, by Nina Carroll, Hutchinson's Books (London), 1947.
- Autumn Song, by Ted Hughes, illustrated by Nina Carroll, Steane (Kettering, Northamptonshire), 1971.
- Over the Wet Lawn, by Michael Standen, book jacket by Nina Carroll, Oxford University Press, 1977. {{ISBN|978-0192714107}}
- Cogges Manor Fam Museum, cover by Nina Carroll, Oxfordshire County Council, 1993.{{ISBN|0-9520840-0-7}}
- Nina Carroll's Seaside Piers, by Kate Steane, Geoff Tann, 2020. {{ISBN|978-1527271357}}
- Nina Carroll: From House to Housebooks, by Kate Steane, Geoff Tann, 2021. {{ISBN|978-1838489502}}
- Nina Carroll: Here and There, by Kate Steane, Geoff Tann, 2021. {{ISBN|978-1838489519}}
References
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External links
- [https://www.paintingsbyninacarroll.co.uk/ Paintings by Nina Carroll website]
- {{cite web| url=https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/213467060/nina-steane |title=Nina Carroll Steane | website=Find a Grave }}
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Category:Alumni of the University of Oxford
Category:Artists from Oxfordshire
Category:English women painters
Category:English watercolourists
Category:Burials at Wolvercote Cemetery
Category:Place of birth missing
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