After matriculating, Sumner moved to London to study and teach English. In 1922 she completed her English Literature studies, receiving a Master of Arts degree from Oxford University. Although she had trained to be a teacher and her father thought art an unstable career, her temperament was that of an artist. Soon after completing her studies she decided to pursue a painting career.
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Maud Francis Eyston Sumner
- Born
- 6 September 1902
- Died
- 1985
- Updated
- 2 Oct 2019
How we know this
- 01• https://www.artsmart.co.za/visual/archive/1462.html • Berman, E. (1993). Painting in South Africa, Halfway House: Southern Book Publishers. • Verwey, E. J. (ed) (1995). The New Dictionary of South African Biography Volume 1, Pretoria: HSRC Publishers.
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