Olive Muriel Craske (1898-1947) A Gateway in Sienna c1920’s
- A wonderful watercolour painting of a Tuscan street scene,
being sold with original mount and frame.
Olive Craske exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1923 and 1924
and married in 1925. She was one of three talented sisters; The
eldest Magaret Craske was a Ballet dancer, choreographer and teacher
developing the Cecchetti Method, (her pupils include many of the
most important names in ballet in the English-speaking world,
including Sir Frederick Ashton, Dame Margot Fonteyn and Ninette de
Valois, she was later a devotee of the Indian spiritual master Meher
Baba) and Dorothy Craske, an actress who primarily played the role
of a man
