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The Dachshunds "Tina" and "Pindi Poo" by Kathleen Irene (Kay)Nixon, SWA (English, 1895-1988) An oil on canvas board of the Dachshunds "Tina" and "Pindi Poo" by Kathleen Irene (Kay) Nixon Nixon, SWA (1895-1988). Signed bottom left "K Nixon".
These were the artists own dogs painted upon her return from India when she wrote and illustrated a number of whimsical stories for children based on her own pets. "Pindi Poo" was published by Frederick Warne & Co. Ltd in 1957.
The Times October 1988 wrote these stories show "her draughtmanship and her use of watercolour were clear and unpretentious, preserving into the post-war decades a style of illustration that was closely related to that of such Victorian artists as Cecil Aldin and Harry Rountree".
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