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Theresa Bernstein. Part 2. – my daily art display
William Merowitz in his studio. John Weichsel was the founder of the People’s Art Guild in 1915. It was to be an alternative to the system of traditional fine art galleries. The Guild would set up exhibitions in various unconventional spaces and by doing so, the Guild brought avant-garde art into the immigrant settlement houses…
Theresa Bernstein. Part 1. – my daily art display
The Early Years Theresa Bernstein (1890 -2002) My blog today is all about a remarkable woman, not just for her art but for her amazing longevity, dying just a few months short of her 112th birthday. She is the American painter, Theresa Ferber Bernstein. Two miniature cameos (possibly self-portraits) by Theresa Bernstein (1907) Theresa was…
Anna Richards Brewster. Part 2. – my daily art display
Marriage and Personal Tragedy During the three-year period between 1901 and 1904 Anna, her father and young brother went on several painting trips. They travelled through Europe to Norway as well as taking a couple of trips around the east coast of America. Anna and her father, the painter, William Trost Richards, had joint exhibitions…
Anna Richards Brewster. Part 1. – my daily art display
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…
Maritime Art. Part 3. – my daily art display
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…
Maritime Art. Part 2. – my daily art display
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…
Maritime Art. Part 1. – my daily art display
The Sea and the Ships Storm at Sea by Pieter Bruegel the Elder (c.1569) Maritime painting is an art genre that depicts ships and the sea. Early examples of this genre were found in Greek vase paintings and the wall paintings of Pompeii. Storm at Sea is one of earliest specific seascapes and was painted…
Cyril & Renske Mann. Part 5. – my daily art display
Letters of love “...I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my…
Cyril and Renske Mann. Part 4. – my daily art display
The great portrait artist and his beautiful muse and model "...When I first got undressed to pose for him, he looked me up and down with a critical eye. ' Perfect breasts. Not too big, not too small. You can thank your Indonesian forebears for those'. We'd known each other for about a month, and already we were…
Cyril and Renske Mann. Part 3. – my daily art display
Love at first sight. "...The very first moment I beheld him, my heart was irrevocably gone...” – Jane Austen Bread and Knife by Cyril Mann (c.1955) Still Life of Bottle and Jug by Cyril Mann (c.1955) In the mid-1950s Cyril Mann’s painting style changed and he entered what was known as his solid shadow period. …
Cyril and Renske Mann. Part 2. – my daily art display
Paris, Mary and Renske The previous blog ended in the autumn of 1935 with Cyril Mann entering the Royal Academy Schools where he received thorough academic training and a chance to meet fellow ambitious young artists. Whilst a student there he remained in contact with Bernard Clarke, the chaplain at the Paddington Toc H. His…
Cyril and Renske Mann. Part 1. – my daily art display
Cyril Mann - the early years and Canada. No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed indeed. Harold MacMillan In many of my blogs I have related the story of a husband and wife who had both been artists but after the marriage…
Artcatto Gallery Revisited – my daily art display
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…
Laura Sylvia Gosse – my daily art display
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…
Jasper Francis Cropsey – my daily art display
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…
Wilhelmina Douglas Hawley – my daily art display
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…
John White Alexander – my daily art display
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…
Laura Wheeler Waring. Part 2. – my daily art display
Houses at Semur by Laura Wheeler Waring (1925) Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port by Laura Wheeler Waring (1925) After her short stay in the south of France, Waring returned to Paris in the Spring of 1925 and continued her studies at the Académie de la Grande Chaumiére whilst staying in the Villa de Villiers in Neuilly-sur-Seine. That year Laura…
Laura Wheeler Waring. Part 1. – my daily art display
The art critic Patricia Tilton commented on the artist I am featuring today, Laura Wheeler Waring, writing: Waring is the perfect role model for little girls who have big dreams. Determined and committed to pursuing her passion, young Laura began to manifest her dreams. She was self-confident, believed in her gift, and welcomed each opportunity…
Ethel Spowers – my daily art display
The Tate website defines linocut thus: “…The lino block consists of a thin layer of linoleum (a canvas backing coated with a preparation of solidified linseed oil) usually mounted on wood. The soft linoleum can be cut away more easily than a wood-block and in any direction (as it has no grain) to produce a…
Ethel Sands and Anna (Nan) Hope Hudson – my daily art display
The blog today is about two talented early twentieth century painters who became lifelong friends and companions despite them having different ideas as to what was a “perfect” life. Ethel Sands preferred the life of a socialite and enjoyed lavish soirees and was reputed to be one of the most important hostesses in cultured English…
Nettie Blanche Lazzell – my daily art display
Blanche Lazell during her time at the Art Student League, New York Cornelius Carhart Lazzell, a direct descendent of pioneers who settled in Monongolia County, West Virginnia, after the American Revolutionary War, married Mary Prudence Pope and the couple went on to have ten children, three sons and seven daughters. The ninth child was Nettie…
Rowland Hilder – my daily art display
Rowland Frederick Hilder The artist I am looking at today is the American-born English watercolourist Rowland Frederick Hilder, a great painter of English landscapes and seascapes. Rowland was born to Roland and Kitty Hilder (née Fissenden) on June 28th, 1905 at Great Neck, a village on a peninsula on the North Shore of Long Island. …
Ottalie Tolansky – my daily art display
After my very long last blog, here is a shorter one ! Ben Uri Gallery (Boundary Road, off Abbey Road, St John's Wood, London) When I was visiting London the other day, I visited the Ben Uri gallery in St John’s Wood, just off the famous Abbey Road. I had been sent regular emails from…
Edward Darley Boit and his Daughters – my daily art display
Edward Darley Boit For this blog I am reverting to my early modus operandi when I concentrated the blog on one painting, rather than, as I do nowadays, focus on the artist(s). Having said that, the blog revolves around two American artists, one who is rightly categorised as one of the great nineteenth century painters…
The Artistically Talented Walton Family – my daily art display
My blog today is about a family of artists, the Walton family, a veritable artistic dynasty. The head of the family was Edward Arthur Walton, best known as, simply, E.A.Walton. Walton was born on April 15th, 1860 in Barrhead, a small town in East Renfrewshire, Scotland, thirteen kilometres (8 miles) southwest of Glasgow city centre. …
Susan Greenough Hinckley and Reverend Leverett Bradley – my daily art display
Susan Greenough Hinckley was born in the Beacon Hill area of Boston, Massachusetts on May 15th 1851. Her father was Samuel Lyman Hinckley, of the well-known family of Northampton Lymans, and her mother was Anne Cutler Parker whom he married in 1849, nine years after his first wife had died. Susan had three siblings, an…
William James Glackens – my daily art display
To look at the history of the Ashcan School one has to go back a step and look at a group of painters who became known as The Eight. These eight artists, with Robert Henri, acknowledged as the leader of the group, were Arthur B. Davies, William Glackens, Ernest Lawson, George Luks, Maurice B. Prendergast,…
Albert Godwin – my daily art display
Albert Goodwin The artist I am looking at today is the nineteenth century English painter, Albert Frederick Goodwin, best known for his watercolour landscapes. The Artist's Father, Samuel Goodwin by Albert Goodwin (1868) Albert Goodwin was born at 1 Acton Place, 62 Boxley Road, Maidstone on January 17th 1845. His father was Samuel Goodwin, a…
Alethea (Thea) Mary Proctor – my daily art display
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,…
George Benjamin Luks – my daily art display
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…
Clara Klinghoffer. Part 4. – my daily art display
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…
Clara Klinghoffer. Part 3. – my daily art display
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…
Clara Klinghoffer. Part 2. – my daily art display
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…
Clara Klinghoffer. Part 1. – my daily art display
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…
Evelyn Dunbar – my daily art display
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…
Southport’s Atkinson Gallery – my daily art display
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…
Isabel Codrington Pyke Nott – my daily art display
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,…
Broncia Koller-Pinell – my daily art display
I was reading an article entitled A Forgotten Fame in the German Arts magazine, Schirn Mag. It was about the life and works of the Austrian artist Bronislawa (Broncia) Pinell, later, Broncia Koller-Pinell and the headline read: “…Broncia Koller-Pinell is listed as one of Austria’s most important female artists of the turn of the 20th…
Doris McCarthy-beautiful simplicity. – my daily art display
Doris McCarthy aged 96. When I first saw the artwork of today’s featured artist, the phrase that first came to mind was “beautiful simplicity”. I hope you will feel the same when you peruse this blog. The artist I am showcasing today is Doris McCarthy, a Canadian painter, writer and educator and who is best…