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EQ Nicholson (4 November 1908 – 7 September 1992) was an English painter and textile designer. ==Early life== Born Elsie Queen Myers in London, EQ was the daughter of novelist Leo Myers and his American-born wife Elsie Mellen Palmer; her sister Eveleen was born in 1910.〔 Her paternal grandparents were the writer Frederic W. H. Myers and photographer Eveleen Tennant; her maternal grandfather was General William Jackson Palmer of Delaware, from whose wife Mary "Queen" Palmer, née Mellen, she received her second name.〔 Her father frequented writers and artists including members of the Bloomsbury Group, the sculptor Frank Dobson and the painter Cedric Morris. Leo Myers committed suicide on 7 April 1944 by taking an overdose of Veronal.〔〔 In 1931, EQ married the architect Christopher "Kit" Nicholson, youngest son of the painter William Nicholson and Mabel Pryde,〔 and brother to Ben Nicholson and Nancy Nicholson. Kit and EQ had three children: two daughters, Jane Kasmin and textile designer Louisa Creed, and a son, the painter Tim Nicholson. During the Second World War EQ and the children lived at first at Yew Cottage on Cranborne Chase in Dorset,〔〔 and then, from 1941 until 1947, at Alderholt Mill House, near Fordingbridge in Hampshire.〔〔 Kit Nicholson died of injuries following a glider crash in Italy on 28 July 1948.〔 EQ died in London in 1992.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「EQ Nicholson」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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