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Fourteenth Street School of Artists – my daily art display
Part 2. Isabel Bishop "...I hope my work is recognizable as being by a woman, though I certainly would never deliberately make it feminine in any way, in subject or treatment. But if I speak in a voice which is my own, it's bound to be the voice of a woman..." -Isabel Bishop Isabel Bishop,…
The Fourteenth Street School. Part 1. – my daily art display
When talking about American Urban Realism in art one thinks of The Ashcan School, which was an artistic movement in America during the late 19th and early 20th century. The name given to the group originated from a criticism written in the graphically pioneering American magazine of socialist politics, The Masses, in March 1916 by…
Gertrude Horsford Fiske – my daily art display
Gertrude Horsford Fiske The artist I am looking at today is the nineteenth century American painter Gertrude Horsford Fiske who was famous for painting people, still life, and landscapes. Gertrude Fiske was born into an established New England family that can trace their family history way back to the Governor of Plymouth Colony, William Bradford…
Jean-Jacques Henner – my daily art display
In my previous blog regarding the Dutch painter Thérèse Schwartze I mentioned that one of her early art tutors was Jean-Jacques Henner, the French painter famed for his portraiture. Today I am going to focus on his life and his many artworks. Jean-Jacques Henner Henner was born on March 5th 1829 at the Alsatian town…
Thérèse Schwartze – my daily art display
Thérèse Schwartze - self portrait (1917) Therese Schwartze was a Dutch 20th century painter. Such was a hugely talented portrait artist that was one of only a few females who had been honoured by receiving an invitation to contribute her self-portrait to the hall of painters at the Uffizi Gallery in Florence. This genius of…
Maria Slavona – my daily art display
Maria Slavona was born Marie Dorette Caroline Schorer on March 14th 1865 in the north German town of Lübeck. She was the daughter of the pharmacist Theodor Schorer and his wife Ottilie, (née Steger). Her father owned the Löwenapotheke on the corner of Königstraße, and Johannisstraße in the town, which is now known as Dr.-Julius-Leber-Straße. …
Ellen Day Hale – my daily art display
Portrait of Ellen Day Hale by Margaret Lesley Bush-Brown (1944) The artist I am looking at today is the American painter, Ellen Day Hale. Ellen Day Hale was born on February 11th, 1855 in Worcester, Massachusetts. She was born into an elite Boston Brahmin Hale-Beecher family. The Boston Brahmins, sometimes referred to as the Boston…
Walker Art Gallery revisited. – my daily art display
The Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool has one of the most significant and famous collection of artworks in the UK, which includes European Renaissance paintings, masterpieces by Rubens, Rembrandt, Turner and Stubbs, Pre-Raphaelite artworks by Rossetti and Millais, Impressionist works by Monet and Degas and contemporary works by Hockney, Wylie and the winners of the…
Theodoor Rombouts – my daily art display
Portrait of Theodoor Rombouts by Anthony van Dyck In my last two blogs regarding the Groeninge museum in Bruges, I looked at the works of the Flemish Primitive painters. In this edition of the blog I want to showcase the life and works of an early seventeenth century Flemish painter known for his Caravaggesque genre…
Groeningen Museum Bruges. Part 2. – my daily art display
In 1902, a major exhibition of Flemish Primitive works entitled Les Primitifs flamands et l'art ancien was held in Bruges. Almost four hundred paintings, including works by (or attributed to) Jan van Eyck, Rogier van der Weyden, Dieric Bouts, Hans Memling, Gerard David and Quentin Massijs, were on show. The exhibition drew in more than…
Groeningemuseum Bruges. Part 1. – my daily art display
Groeningemuseum, Bruges If you ever manage to travel to Belgium and visit the city of Brugge (Bruges) then I entreat you to drop in at the Groeninge Museum which lies in the heart of the historic city. It is at this establishment that you will be able to see works of art by Jan van…
Marie Laurencin. Part 3. – my daily art display
Marie Laurencin - a photograph by Granger (1913) Marie Laurencin left Spain and returned to Düsseldorf via Switzerland in 1919. She was very unhappy with her life. She was depressed and felt unstable with her marriage failing. Laurençin filed for a divorce from her husband telling friends that the reason for the marital split was…
Marie Laurencin Part 2. – my daily art display
Marie Laurencin, Paris (c.1912.) Marie Laurençin's paintings dating from around 1910 have a strong flavour of cubism. However, she once again stated that although the experiments of cubism fascinated her, she was adamant that she would never become a cubist painter because she was not capable of it. Bateau-Lavoir c. 1910 Laurençin spent a lot…
Marie Laurencin. Part 1. – my daily art display
Marie Laurencin photographed by Man Ray (c.1925) My blog today features the life and artwork of the nineteenth century French painter, Marie Laurencin. She played an important role in the bringing out the female and lesbian identity in early-20th century modern art movements which at the time was dominated by men. Her depictions were mainly…
Jessie and Aniza McGeehan – my daily art display
Jessie Mary McGeehan Jessie Mary McGeehan was born to Patrick and Mary McGeehan in 1872 in Rawyards, Airdrie, about twenty miles east of Glasgow. She had four younger sisters, Annie Louise, known as Aniza, born on December 24th 1874, Mary Catherine born March 6th 1877, who in September 1904 entered the Order of Sisters of…
Jean-Baptiste Armand Guillaumin – my daily art display
Jean-Baptiste Armand Guillaumin, the French impressionist painter and lithographer, was born on February 16th 1841 in Paris. He was brought up in a working-class family, the grandson of Jean Joseph Guillaumin who was a notary by trade. He was sent to school in Moulins, where his family came from, and this period in central France,…
Walasse Ting – my daily art display
Walasse Ting (1929-2010) Walasse Ting at work in his studio I have just returned from another stay in the Algarve where I could finally see some sun and experience warm weather. Whenever I visit the Algarve, I always visit the Art Catto gallery in Loule which I have often written about. This time I not…
Graham Clarke – my daily art display
What is the reason behind you placing a paintings or prints on your walls at home? Is it because it reminds you of somewhere you have visited or maybe it is a depiction of somewhere nearby? Maybe it is a portrait of a loved one or somebody famous whom you admire. In this period of…
Amélie Beaury-Saurel and Rodolphe Julian. – my daily art display
Amélie Beaury-Saurel Amélie Beaury a French painter, was actually born in Barcelona on December 17th 1848. Her family had previously lived in Spain and Corsica before moving to the Catalan city in 1845. Her parents, Camille Georges Beaury and Irma Catalina Saurel owned a large carpet and tapestry factory with more than twenty looms, which…
The Funen Painters. Part 2. – my daily art display
Peter Syrak Hansen and his family. Following the last blog regarding the early members of the Funen artists, this blog looks at some of the younger members and how they were often connected. Peter Syrak Hansen One of the leading figures of the Funen painters was Peter Syrak Hansen and it was his home and…
The Funen Painters (Fynboerne) – my daily art display
The term Artists' Colonies defines gatherings of artists in towns, villages and rural areas, who have assembled at places of natural beauty and where the cost of living is less than that of city life. In the latter part of the nineteenth century, art colonies began to spring up as village movements with thousands of…
Hungarian Artists. Part 2. – my daily art display
Károly Ferenczy and the family In this blog I am looking at the lives and works of a talented Hungarian family of painters. Károly Ferenczy Károly Ferenczy Károly Ferenczy is considered one of the most important pioneers of Hungarian Modernism, He was the son of Ida Graenzenstein and the Austrian railway construction official Karel Freund,…
The Hungarian Artists. Part 1. – my daily art display
Viktor Madarász & Pal Szinyei Merse Museum Of Fine Arts Budapest Buda Castle I visited the Hungarian city of Budapest the other week and decided to visit some of its art museums. The two main establishments are the Szépművészeti Múzeum, the Museum of Fine Arts on the Pest side of the city and the Hungarian…
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…