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§ Valerie Thornton (British, 1931-1991) The Guild Hall, Lavenham, Suffolk signed lower right "Valerie Thornton '77" and numbered 39/250 etching and aquatint h:37 w:50 cm Valerie Thornton studied at the Regent Street Polytechnic School of Art from 1950-1953. In 1954 she went to Paris and studied printmaking with the renowned print maker Stanley William Hayter at Atelier 17. Thornton then moved to New York studying at the Pratt Institute. Her first exhibition was held in 1960 followed by shows in England and America. Valerie Thornton loved the churches of East Anglia and in the 1970s made etchings of ecclesiastical and architectural subjects, travelling extensively in France, Italy and Spain. Valerie Thornton's work is in the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, and the Museum of Modern Art, New York.