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Famous Views of the Sixty odd Provinces by Utagawa Hiroshige. Part 2. – my daily art display
Title Page for the series Famous Places in the Sixty-odd Provinces of Japan by Hiroshige Hiroshige was born in Edo (now Tokyo) in 1797 and grew up in a minor samurai family. His father was part of the firefighting force assigned to Edo Castle. It was here that Hiroshige was given his first exposure to…
Famous Views of the Sixty odd Provinces by Utagawa Hiroshige. Part 1. – my daily art display
Memorial Portrait of Utagawa Hiroshige by Utagawa Kunisada (c.1858) This portrait of the artist Hiroshige shows him as he looked just before his death, with the robes and shaven head of a Buddhist priest. At the age of sixty, two years before his death of an undetermined long illness, he took monks vows. Utagawa Hiroshige or Andō Hiroshige,…
Maxamilian Kurzweil – my daily art display
Self Portrait by Max Kurzweil The artist I am looking at today is the Austrian painter and printmaker, Maximilian Franz Viktor Zdenko Marie Kurzweil who was born on October 12th 1867 in Bzenec, a small town in the South Moravian Region, which was then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and now part of the Czech…
Mary Evelyn Wrinch – my daily art display
Mary Evelyn Wrinch "...I have always been a person with one idea. I had no other ambition than to become an artist. It was the only thing I ever wanted to do..." Mary E. Wrinch A.R.C.A. Mary Evelyn Wrinch, an English-born Canadian, was born in 1877 in the Northeast Essex village of Kirby-le-Soken. Her parents…
Emma Fordyce MacRea – my daily art display
Detail from Emma Fordyce MacRea by Ivan Gregorewitch Olinsky (1930) Emma Dean Fordyce was born on April 27th 1887 in Vienna. She was the first-born child of Alice Dean Fordyce (née Smith) a woman of inherited wealth and Dr. John Addison Forsyth. Her father was a professor of dermatology who was born in Guernsey County,…
Théophile “Théo” van Rysselberghe Part 2. – my daily art display
Van Rysselberghe went to Haarlem in September 1883 to study the light in the works of Frans Hals. He was fascinated by the way the artist had rendered the light and this facet of painting would remain with him for the rest of his life. It was also in the Netherlands that he first met…
Théophile “Théo” van Rysselberghe Part 1. – my daily art display
The artist I am looking at today is Théophile "Théo" van Rysselberghe a Belgian neo-impressionist painter, who was a major protagonist in the European art scene at the turn of the twentieth century. Self-portrait in a Green Waistcoat (1924) Théo was born in Ghent on November 23rd 1862, the youngest child of Jean-Baptiste and Melanie…
Hannah Harrison Cohoon and the Shakers. – my daily art display
My short blog today is about n artist and a religion. It looks at the life and works of Hannah Cohoon, a person you may not have heard of before. Her art is both unusual and simplistic and is connected to a millenarian restorationist Christian sect known as The United Society of Believers in Christ's…
New Hope Artists. Part 3. – my daily art display
Part 3. Daniel Garber The third artist who was involved in the early days of the New Hope Artists Colony was Daniel Garber. He has been looked upon as being one of the three most important painters of that group Daniel Garber Daniel Garber was born on April 11th, 1880, in North Manchester, Indiana. He…
New Hope Artist Colony. Part 2. – my daily art display
Part 2. Edward Willis Redfield The second artist I am looking at who was an early member of the New Hope Artists Colony was Edward Redfield Edward Willis Redfield Edward Willis Redfield was born on December 18th 1869 in Bridgeville, Delaware, before moving to Philadelphia as a young child. He was the youngest son of…
New Hope Artist Colony. Part 1. – my daily art display
Part 1 - The Beginning In my last blog about the American Impressionist, M Elizabeth Price, I mentioned the New Hope Artist Colony and this name has cropped up in other of my blogs so I thought I would give you a more in-depth look at this artist colony and how it all began and…
Mary Elizabeth Price – my daily art display
Mary Elizabeth Price Mary Elizabeth Price, sometimes simply known as M. Elizabeth Price, was born on March 1st 1877 near the town of Martinsburg, West Virginia. Her parents, Reuben Moore Price and Caroline Cooper Paxson Price were Quakers, who lived in Shenandoah, Virginia. She was one of five children, having a sister, Alice Price, and…
Maria Elisabeth Georgina “Lizzie” Ansingh – my daily art display
Lizzie Ansingh My featured artist today is a Dutch lady who became a great portrait painter but may be best remembered for another type of art which I will tell you about later. Portrait of Lizzie Ansingh by Thérèse Schwartze (1895) Maria Elisabeth Georgina Ansingh, better known as simply Lizzie Ansingh, was born on March…
Jacob Ochtervelt and his Voorhuis Paintings – my daily art display
For many of my blogs recently, I have concentrated on nineteenth century artists as this is one of my favourite artistic era but I have always been fascinated by the artists who flourished during the Dutch Golden Age, a period in Dutch history which lasted from 1588, when the Dutch Republic was established until 1672,…
George Edward Handel Lucas – my daily art display
My story today about an artist is a sad one. It is a tale of rags to riches and back to rags. My featured artist is George Edward Handel Lucas who because of artistic ability at a very young age was labelled by some as an artistic genius. E G Handel Lucas self portrait painted…
Utagawa Kuniyoshi and Nichiren. Part 1. – my daily art display
In March 2023 I took you on a Japanese journey The Tokaido Road Trip and today I want you to join me on another such voyage of discovery through a series of ten Japanese woodblock prints in ink and color on paper made by Japanese artist Utagawa Kuniyoshi, one of the last the great Masters of ukiyo-e. Kuniyoshi was born…
Utagawa Kuniyoshi and Nichiren. Part 2. – my daily art display
Nichiren's journey continues................................. The Mantram "Namumyohorengekyo" Appears to Nichiren in the Waves near Sumida on the Way to Exile on Sado Island. One of the ten Utagawa Kuniyoshi's Sketches of the Life of the Great Priest series. Nichiren continued his journey into forced exile on Sado Island with a sea voyage from the mainland to…
Fredrik Kruseman – my daily art display
During a period of very low temperatures and snowy conditions, it might seem appropriate to focus on art depicting sunshine, blue skies, and warm azure-coloured seas. However, today's blog will start with featuring beautiful depictions of snow and ice and explore how people who experienced these conditions seemed to find enjoyment in them. Many such…
Max Liebermann. Part 2. – my daily art display
Self portrait by Max Liebermann (1934) Max Liebermann was Jewish, not a strict Orthodox Jew, but more of a secular Jew who regarded himself through assimilationist eyes. Maybe because of this he avoided painting religious subjects with the exception of a painting he completed in 1879 entitled The 12-Year-Old Jesus in the Temple With the…
Max Liebermann – my daily art display
My artist today is the German painter Max Liebermann. Liebermann was a key figure in the nineteenth century German art scene, who was well-known for his part in bringing Impressionism to the German art world and was one of the founder members of the Berlin Secession. Photograph of Max Liebermann by Jacob Hilsdorf (1904) Max…
Louise Emerson Rönnebeck. Part 2. – my daily art display
Arnold and Louise settled down to living in the Colorado town of Denver in 1926. Soon the couple became active in the Denver art community and both were founding members of the Denver Artists Guild in 1928. Whilst living in Denver during the 1920s and 1930s, they would regularly visit Santa Fe in New Mexico…
Louise Emerson Rönnebeck. Part 1. – my daily art display
Louise at work (c.1930) My featured artist today is Louise Emerson Rönnebeck, the twentieth century painter famous for her murals. Louise Emerson was born on August 25th 1901 in the Philadelphia suburb of Germantown but spent her childhood in New York. She was the third child of Mary Crawford Suplee and Harrington Emerson and had…
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…