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Anna Richards Brewster. Part 1.
The Early Years
Anna Richards (c.1885)
My featured artist today is Anna Richards Brewster, the much-admired American Impressionist painter who was one of the most successful women artists of her time and yet her name has largely been forgotten. Anna was born in the Germantown neighbourhood of Philadelphia in 1870. She was the sixth of eight children of William and Anna Richards.
William Trost…
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#American artists#American Impressionism#Anna Matlack#Anna Richards Brewster#Annie Ware Winsor#Art#Art Blog#Art History#Cowles Art School#Female artists#William Trost Richards
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Maritime Art. Part 3.
The pleasure the sea and the shoreline brings to us.
Having looked at Marine Art with depictions of mighty sailing ships in Part 1., and the plight of fishermen and lifeboatmen battling raging seas in Part 2., this third and final part will concentrate on the tranquillity of the sea and the shoreline A and how people enjoy the elements.
When I was last in Madrid and had spent a few days and…
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#Art Blog#Art History#Eugène Lepoittevin#Joaquin Sorolla#Marine Art#Michael Ancher#Monet#Peder Severin Krøyer#Renoir#William Merritt Chase#Wilmslow Homer
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Maritime Art. Part 2.
The Sea and the Workers who risk their lives for others.
In this look at Maritime or Marine Art I want to showcase those paintings which feature the people who have dedicated their lives to saving seafarers and those working the seas in a continual search for food to put on our tables.
For the first of my forays into the depiction of fisherman I want to delve into the work of the great Skagen…
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#Art#Art Blog#Art History#Aviazovsky#J.M.W. Turner#Marine Art#Marine paintings#Michael Ancher#Newlyn School#Peder Severin Krøyer#Rembrandt#Skagen painters#Walter Langley#William Falconer
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Artcatto Gallery Revisited
I have just returned home from a twelve-day holiday in Spain and Portugal and once again when I was in the Algarve I visited the town of Loulé and went to one of my favourite small galleries, Artcatto, one which I featured in September 2022. There was a new selection of outstanding contemporary art, and in this blog I will concentrate on work by three of the artists.
Voka
Voka at work in his…
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#Art#Art Blog#Art History#Contemporary artists#Mr Brainwash#Shen Ming Cun#Thierry Guetta#Thomas Bossard#Voka.
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Laura Sylvia Gosse
Laura Sylvia Gosse (1881-1968)
For a number of years now, probably for centuries, many female artists have been discounted as hobby-painters or painting because art for many was like playing the piano, a social grace that every young woman should achieve. It is even more annoying when a man and a woman work side by side and yet it is the reputation of the male artist that is remembered. An…
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Jasper Francis Cropsey
Among the most vibrant and spectacular works of the nineteenth century, were the sweeping landscape depictions of the Hudson River School which managed to capture the rugged beauty of the American countryside and wildernesses. The name Hudson River School was first used disparagingly by trendy Europhile critics who preferred the dignified depictions of the realism of L’École de Barbizon. The…
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#American artists#Art Blog#Art History#Hudson River School#Jasper Francis Cropsey#Landscape artists#Sir Charles Lock Eastlake
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Wilhelmina Douglas Hawley
Wilhelmina Douglas Hawley, Self Portrait (1897)
The artist I am featuring today is the American painter and watercolourist Wilhelmina Douglas Hawley. She was born on July 13th 1860 in the small coastal town of Perth Amboy, New Jersey. Her father, Peter Radcliffe Hawley was an officer in the coast guard and her mother, Isabella Hawley (née Merritt), a Canadian-born dancer. Wilhelmina’s ancestors…
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#Art#Art Blog#Art History#Cooper Union Women’s Art School#French painter#Laura Munz Lyall#Rijsoord Artist Colony#Watercolourist#Wilhelmina Douglas Hawley
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John White Alexander
During the nineteenth century, Paris was considered the art capital of the world. Once the American Civil War had ended, aspiring American artists, who had the necessary funds, made their way across the Atlantic to the French capital and enrolled in one of the many ateliers there, to learn from the foremost painters of the time. Many enrolled in the prestigious government-sponsored École des…
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#American artists#Art History#Duveneck Boys#Elizabeth Alexander#Frank Duveneck#Isabella and the Pot of Basil#John White Alexander#Mary Emma Woolley#Portraiture
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Alethea (Thea) Mary Proctor
Alethea Proctor by George Lambert (1903)
The subject of today’s blog is the Australian painter, Alethea (Thea) Mary Proctor. Thea was born on October 2nd 1879 at Armidale, a town in the Northern Tablelands of New South Wales, two hundred and fifty miles north of Sydney. She was the elder child of William Consett Proctor, an English-born solicitor who was also a member of the Legislative…
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#Art#Art Blog#Art History#Australian artist#Female artists#George Washington Lambert#Lithography#Thea Proctor
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George Benjamin Luks
The artist I am looking at today is an American who was mainly known for his social-realist paintings and illustration. Today’s painter supported several of his contemporaries in their philosophy of painting subjects which challenged the traditional approaches put forward at the time by the National Academy of Design and the established art circles in America. This art renegade is George…
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Clara Klinghoffer. Part 4.
The Latter Years
Portrait of a Girl by Clara Klinghoffer
Clara’s stay close to Menton with her husband and youngest sister had proved to be a great success and their plans to return home to London had been postponed on a number of occasions. The decision as to whether to leave their rented villa, Villa Aggradito, was taken out of their hands eventually as the owner needed the villa for a…
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#Art#Art History#Clara Klinghoffer#English painter#Female artists#Figurative painters#Joop Stoppleman
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Clara Klinghoffer. Part 3.
Marriage and travels.
Lucien Pissarro by Clara Klinghoffer (1928)
Clara continued to paint and produce beautiful works of art. She worked constantly at her easel from daybreak till sunset. She was awarded a bursary by the Slade allowing her to attend classes three days a week for a year and receive tuition from the Slade Professors of Art, Frederick Brown, and Henry Tonks. However, Clara…
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#Art#Art Blog#Art History#English painter#Female artists#Joop Stoppleman#Portraiture#Slade School of Art
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Clara Klinghoffer. Part 2.
The artistic road ahead.
“��I consider Clara Klinghoffer an artist of great talent, a painter of the first order… Her understanding of form places her in the very first rank of draughtsmen in the world…”
Sir Jacob Epstein, London, March 30, 1939
Self portrait by Clara Klinghoffer
Fourteen year old Clara was just about to leave St Mark’s School and it is thought that it could have been the head…
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Clara Klinghoffer. Part 1.
Early childhood and teenage years
Self portrait by Clara Klinghoffer (1937)
“…Now universally recognized as one of the greatest English woman painters, she was a poor and utterly unknown young girl from the East End when her first exhibition took the artistic world by storm in 1919. Hailed everywhere as the girl who could draw like Raphael, her superb technique has always been compared with the…
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Evelyn Dunbar
Detail from Self portrait by Evelyn Dunbar (1930)
Evelyn Dunbar was born in Reading on December 18th, 1906. She was the fifth and youngest child of William Dunbar and Florence Dunbar (née Murgatroyd). William Dunbar was a Scotsman who originally came from Cromdale, Morayshire. In 1913, when Evelyn was seven-years-old the family moved to Rochester in Kent where her father established himself as…
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#Art Blog#Art History#English painter#Evelyn Dunbar#Female artists#Gardener&039;s Choice by Evelyn Dunbar#Roger Folley#War Artists’ Advisory Committee#Women&039;s Land Army
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Southport's Atkinson Gallery
The Atkinson Gallery, Southport
Art galleries or Museums of Art come in various shapes and sizes from the gigantic multi-room edifices such as London’s National Gallery, Paris’ Louvre and Madrid’s Prado, to small one-room private galleries. The former is awash with works which would take you days to properly study them all, whilst the latter often contain less than fifty paintings and you are…
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Isabel Codrington Pyke Nott
Portrait study of Isabel, by Philip Alexius de László, (c.1909)
In 1856, John Nott , the Lord of the Bydown Manor estate within the parish of Swimbridge, close to the town of Barnstable in Devon, died childless and his two sisters Elizabeth and Marianne became his co-heirs. In 1838 Elizabeth Nott married Reverend John Pyke, and their son John Nott Pyke, became the heir to Bydown. John Nott…
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#Art#Art History#English painter#Female artists#Gustavus Mayer#Isabel Codrington#Isabel Codrington Pyke Nott#Isabel Konody#Isabel Mayer#Paul George Konody
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