self-portraiture to sidestep physical appearance in self-representation. In 1939 she was invited to represent Britain at the 1940 Venice Biennale, but wartime travel restrictions meant that her work could not be transported to Venice. She was highly considered among British avant-garde society and by the later stages of her career was known as a key figure in British Modernism. Because of World War II she spent the rest of her life in Britain. She continued to paint into her seventies, despite suffering from rheumatism and bronchitis. She died in Dorchester, Dorset on 13 May 1947. When she died she was regarded as one of Britain's leading artists. In 1948 Myfanwy Evans (later Piper) wrote a concise book entitled Frances Hodgkins, as part of the 'Penguin Modern Painters' series, and the two were the only woman author and woman artist in the series of eighteen books. Fellowship The Frances Hodgkins Fellowship, established in 1962 at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand, is named after her. Works in collections Gallery Notes References Further reading Iain Buchanan, Michael Dunn, and Elizabeth Eastmond Frances Hodgkins: Paintings and Drawings (2002, Auckland University Press) Joanne Drayton, Frances Hodgkins: A Private Viewing (2005, Godwit, Auckland) Elizabeth Eastmond and Merimeri Penfold, Women and the Arts in New Zealand. Forty Works: 1936–86 (1986, Penguin Books) Catherine Hammond & Mary Kisler, eds Frances Hodgkins : European Journeys (2019, Auckland University Press & Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki) Mary Kisler, Finding Frances Hodgkins, (2019, Massey University Press) Anne Kirker, New Zealand Women Artists: A Survey of 150 Years (1986, Craftsman House) E. H. McCormick, The Expatriate (1954, New Zealand University Press, Wellington) Samantha Niederman, Frances Hodgkins (2019, Eiderdown Books) Emily-Jane Hills Orford, The Creative Spirit: Stories of 20th Century Artists (2008, Ottawa: Baico Publishing) External links Biography in 1966 An Encyclopaedia of New Zealand Notes by Una Platts New Zealand exhibition catalogue Frances Hodgkins (Eiderdown Books) Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki: Works by Frances Hodgkins The Complete Francis Hodgkins by the Auckland Art Gallery Toi O Tāmaki Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa: Frances Hodgkins Frances Hodgkins' close friendships with women Centenary exhibition catalogue, 1969 1869 births 1947 deaths St Ives artists Artists from Dunedin 19th-century New Zealand painters 20th-century New Zealand painters 19th-century New Zealand women artists 20th-century New Zealand women artists People educated at Columba College New Zealand women painters