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Constance Stuart Larrabee
Constance Stuart Larrabee (7 August 1914 – 27 July 2000) was a photographer best known for her images of South Africa and her photo-journalism on Europe during World War II. She was South Africa's first female war correspondent.
Early life.
Constance Stuart was born on August 7, 1914, in Cornwall, England, and moved to Cape Town, South Africa with her parents when she was three months old. She lived on a tin mine in the northern Transvaal, where her
She supported its arts programs, was Chairwoman of the Washington College Friends of the Arts 1983-1984, and helped establish the Constance Stuart Larrabee Arts Center.
Her husband died in 1975. Constance Stuart Larrabee died on July 27, 2000 at her home in Chestertown, aged 85.
Selected Exhibitions.
- 1944 - "The Malay Quarter". Opened by Noël Coward in Pretoria.
- 1945 - "A Tribute: South African 6th Division and the United States 7th Army". Travelled throughout South Africa