Ann Fonsweer

  This scrap of paper shows an incomplete sentence by an unknown writer. Her "crimes", her rough justice, her education of young men,...       The Summer Diary of a Lady Artist is available from Amazon.co.uk and Amazon.com .

 This photo seems to show the location of the Ann Fonsweer Archive. (Ann Fonsweer wrote what was to become The Summer Diary of a Lady Artist , an account of revenge and cougar love.) The "archive" was actually a drawer in a lawyer's office in Edinburgh. Ann Fonsweer Archive, 195? It is thought that the office was in the rooms above the shops, the ones with the arched windows. It was in this archive that new drawings, unseen for decades were discovered. There was also the strange discovery of a cut-out hand a little smaller than an inch in size:   It could be that Fonsweer used templates for some of her drawings, because there are quite a few figures with hands very similar to the one shown above. Presumably the actual template (the hand shaped hole) has been lost, but she, or someone for her, kept what had been cut out. For example on page 19:   The Summer Diary of a Lady Artist is available from Amazon.co.uk and Amazon.com .   Fonsweer's "Crimes" Doycroft...

 Ann Fonsweer, the artist who became posthumously famous after the publication of her illustrated diary, had a strange signature. Most of the examples we have come from the diary itself, the images which follow are scanned from the reprinted edition of that diary. She seems to have adopted the "name" or "identity" of Alpha Eff. (The Greek letter "α" and an English language letter "f". Clearly referring to Ann Fonsweer.    These examples of her signature show that they are easily copy-able, so if someone offers you a "genuine Fonsweer" ask for provenance and don't rely on the signature!  A reprint of The Summer Diary of a Lady Artist is available from Amazon.co.uk and Amazon.com , ISBN 978-1-4466-7410-9. Contact: ckfonsweer@gmail.com      

 A friend recently said that she'd seen a condescending reference to Ann Fonsweer in the book Marshal Edwards Patron of the Arts by H Christopher. I asked for more detail, and she had meant to take some notes and then had forgot, she was in a rush to catch a train! They were both living in Cambridge in 1935, but he was at the University, Trinity College, and she was living in Apple Limeway. A reprint of The Summer Diary of a Lady Artist is available from Amazon.co.uk and Amazon.com , ISBN 978-1-4466-7410-9. Contact: ckfonsweer@gmail.com

 The "archive" is actually a large drawer in an old house in in Edinburgh. Ann Fonsweer, who we know lived in Apple Limeway near Cambridge one eventful summer, was skilled in strange ink pen drawings, and here are two of the newly discovered ones (both untitled but both dated 1935). Her style is unmistakable both in subject matter and execution. One copy of the published book was also found in this archive.   A reprint of The Summer Diary of a Lady Artist is available from Amazon.co.uk and Amazon.com , ISBN 978-1-4466-7410-9  

 Both these drawings appear in the book (The Summer Diary of a Lady Artist), selected presumably by the two sisters. A reprint of The Summer Diary of a Lady Artist is available from Amazon.co.uk and Amazon.com , ISBN 978-1-4466-7410-9. Contact: ckfonsweer@gmail.com  

  A reprint of The Summer Diary of a Lady Artist is available from Amazon.co.uk and Amazon.com , ISBN 978-1-4466-7410-9. Contact: ckfonsweer@gmail.com

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