Art Inconnu - Little-known and under-appreciated art.

Marie-Nicole Ponce-Camus (1778 - 1839)

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"A portrait of a young lady in white" (1819)

Norah Neilson Gray (1882 - 1931)

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"Little Brother" (1922)

Sir William Fettes Douglas (1822 - 1891)

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"Artist" (Self Portrait, 1845)

Ilka Gedo (1921 - 1985)

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(via) No titles given. Gedo's entire output has been digitised and is available online, a refreshingly novel concept! Be sure to check out the many drawings available.

Gennadii Gogoliuk (b.1960)

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"Elizaveta"

"Ethiopia of the eyes"

"The magic book"

"Girl in profile"

"Girl in white"

"Between night and dawn"

"Dancer"

"Eternity's guard"

"Daniel Kharms"

"Portrait of a girl"

"Diana"

"From time"

"Dancing girl"

"Girl and anti world"

"Solomon"

"Gypsy girl"

"Kossac woman"

"Horseman"

"Misty earth"

"On the edge of things"

"The Bluebird"

"Russian boy"

"Lucy"

"The fountain of youth"

"Girl with rabbit"

"The mirror"

"Self portrait"

"The tapestry"

Gogoliuk's works are showing at the John Martin gallery in London until 28th May.

Antonio Mancini (1852 - 1930)

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"Il Saltimbanco" (1879)

Ivan Generalic (1914 - 1992)

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"Deer in the forest" 1956

"Cows in a landscape" 1957

"Village" 1954

"Landscape with grass" 1959

"River Landscape" 1964

"Landscape" 1954

- Many other works

Unknown Flemish School Painter

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"Ecce Homo" (late 16thc.)

Maria Blanchard (1881 - 1932)

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"Jeune fille lisant"

Maria Blanchard was born horribly disfigured from a fall that her mother took while she was pregnant. Her disfigurements included enanismo, which is like dwarfism, a hump on her back, much like a polio victim would have and cojera, which is a deformity in the hips, making walking very difficult. She was often referred to as "the witch". This led her to live a life of solitude. However, this did not stop Maria from becoming a great artist.

"Enfant aux pâtisseries" 1924

"Fillette endormie" 1925

Maria Gutierrez Blanchard was the first-born child of Conception Blanchard and Enrique Gutierrez. She was born in March of 1881, in Santander, Spain. In 1903, Maria moved to Madrid so she could study to become a painter. Her teachers included Fernando Alvarez de Sotomayor, Manuel Benedito andEmelio Sala.

In 1909, Maria's hard work and training won her a grant to continue her studies in Paris, at the Academy Vitti (Academie Vitti), where she studied under Hermengildo Anglada Camarasa, and Kees Van Dongen. While at the Academy, Kees taught her how to break out of the constraints on her artwork that she was taught while studying in Spain. It was during this time that she was introduced to Cubism, after meeting artists such as, Jacques Lipchitz and Juan Gris. These two artists greatly influenced much of Maria's future works.

"Maternité"

In 1910, while in Paris, Maria received a medal in the National Exhibition of Beautiful Arts. She took second prize for her work titled "Nymphs Chaining to Sileno".

Maria returned to Madrid in 1914, where she would participate in an art exhibition called Pintores Integros. The exhibition was organized by Ramone Gomez de la Serna, a Spanish writer, and featured artwork from Jacques Lipchitz, Juan Gris, and Diego Rivera.

From 1914 to 1916, Maria taught drawing to select students in Salamanca. In the later part of 1916, she returned to Paris and began painting in the Cubist style with works such as "Woman with Fan" and "Woman with Guitar". With these two paintings, she fully embraced the methods of Cubism, using flat interlocking shapes. It is said that you could see the influence of Juan Gris and Jacques Lipchitz in these paintings.

"Repas"

"Still life with bananas" 1920

In 1920, Maria began to paint in a more traditional style. Her colors were more poetic and the characters in her paintings reflected the sadness and melancholy feelings that Maria felt in her own life.

In 1921, Maria achieved success with her painting titled "The Communicant", which was displayed at the Salon des Independants in Paris. She began to sell many of her artworks after this showing. But Maria's bad luck caused her to lose the support of many of her patrons due to the financial hardships of that time.

Frank Flausch came to Maria's aid by paying her a monthly contract. This aid lasted until 1926, when Flausch died.

"Jeune Fille à la Fenêtre Ouverte" 1924

"L'Enfant au Bracelet" 1922-23

"L'Enfant à la glace" 1925

Maria's health began to deteriorate from tuberculosis and the stress of day to day life, and Maria's sister Carmen and her children came to live with her. In spite of all of these challenges, Maria continued to paint, selling her paintings to the director of the Valvin Gallery in Paris, Max Berger. She also had several private patrons. This helped solve Maria's financial problems but not her health problems.

"Mujer sentada" 1928

"Le déjeuner"

"Le déjeuner" 1919

(detail)

Maria sought help for her deteriorating health in religion. It is said that she even considered entering into a convent but was persuaded not to by the leaders of the convent.

During the last few years of her life, Maria once again experienced financial problems since she had to create more paintings to sell to patrons that would help her pay for her sister and her nephews. This caused Maria's health to rapidly deteriorate until she died in April of 1932. (via)

"La convalescente"

"Jeune fille à la robe blanche"

"Mujer con abanico" 1916

"Mujer ante el espejo"

"La tasse de chocolat"

"L'Enfant au chapeau" 1925

- Speaking of Maria Blanchard

Wolfgang Beurer (15thc.) et al.

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"Stag Hunting"

"Hunting"

"Hare hunting"

"Boar hunting"

"Bear hunting"

From the Egerton Book of Hours. (via renzodionigi)

Baccio Maria Bacci (1888 - 1974)

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"Afternoon at Fiesole" 1926-9

"Interno"

"Nudo"

"Il Ritorno Dei Feriti"

"The dream"

- Biography

Claude-Marie Dubufe (1790-1864)

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"La Surprise"

Unknown French School Painter

2011-01-01T11:53:00.000Z

"Philosopher in meditation"

Happy 2011!

Giovanni Girolamo Savoldo (1480 - 1548)

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"La Vénitienne" 1540

Tatiana Córdoba (b.1988)

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"Estampa series 1"

"Estampa series 2"

"Estampa series 3"

"Estampa series 5"

- Website
- Interview with Tatiana Córdoba

Unfinished works and sketches, Part 1

2010-12-16T08:56:00.000Z

"Sophie Arnould" by Jean-Baptiste Greuze (1725-1805)

"Study of Legs" by Henry Lerolle (1848-1929)

"Study for the Raft of the Medusa" by Théodore Géricault (1791–1824)

"Autumn" by Paul Steck (1866-1924)

"Etude pour le portrait d'Henri Bergson" by Jacques Emile Blanche (1861-1942)

"Study for Endymion" by Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson (1767–1824)

"Head of a young woman" by Jean-Hippolyte Flandrin (1809–1864)

"Portrait of Nina Overbeck and son" by Johann Friedrich Overbeck (1789-1869)

"Portrait of a lady" by George Romney (1734 - 1802)

"Head study of a woman" by Sir Peter Lely (1618-1680)

"Head of John the Baptist" Italian School

"Angelique" by Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres (1780–1867)

"Jane" by Sir Gerald Festus Kelly (1879–1972)

"Marie Antoinette" Joseph Siffred Duplessis (1725-1802)

"Study for a nude in a landscape" Jean Jacques Henner (1829-1905)

"Portrait de la petite Caplain" by Eugène Anatole Carrière (1849–1906)

"Portrait de Mme Batillat" by Henri Eugène Augustin Le Sidaner (1862-1939)

"Portrait head of a lady" by Sir Thomas Lawrence (1769–1830)

"Three men and a boy" by Antoine Le Nain (1610-1648)

Book Review: Asian Art Now by Melissa Chiu and Benjamin Genocchio

2010-12-15T13:30:00.000Z

The 21st century has been labelled “the Asian Century,” and as the balance of economic and geo-political power shifted from America and Europe to Asia, so too the international art world changed. Asian artists are firmly established in major art galleries across the world and many live and work in leading art world centres such as New York and Berlin. The preceding decades have seen Asian art become a truly global phenomenon, and a few artists establish themselves on a global platform; the multi-million pound canvasses of Yue Minjun or the solemn family portraits of Zhang Xiogang, both painters associated with the cynical realism movement. Others will recognise the photographs of Morimura Yasumasa or the paintings of Masami Teraoka which draw heavily on the ukiyo-e woodblock tradition of Japan. Takeshi Murakami has established himself as the “bad boy,” of Asian art, his iconic and outlandish manga-inspired sculptures and paintings being perhaps the most recognisable works in Asian art today. But for many, beyond a scattering of recognisable names and images, the world of Asian art remains confusing and impenetrable.

"No. 9" by Yue Minjun

Asian Art Now from the Monacelli Press aims to take this art - the modern art produced by more than half the population of the world - and reveal it to us, placing it in context and explaining some of the troublesome aspects of this dynamic and thrilling phenomenon. Who are these artists? What do these works mean? And perhaps most interestingly, how are these artists reinterpreting and updating tradition?

"Rudolf and Bambi" by Bharti Kher

The book provides both an overview of contemporary artists and trends, and a much needed scholarly glance at what is a surprisingly rich tradition of modern art across the Asian continent. And it goes well beyond the obvious modern capitals of Asian art. Here is the Mongolian Chaulun Baatar, Vietnamese photo artist Dinh Q. Le. Almagul Menlibayeva of Kazahkstan, Shirin Neshat of Iran. And the breadth is matched by the depth; from paintings in oils and ink, to new media and installations which are startling in their ambition.

"Requesting Buddha no.1" by Wang Qingsong

The authors begin by laying out across an introductory chapter a short history of modern Asian Art. Yes, Yoko Ono is here, but so too many other artists and movements sadly absent from many mainstream timelines of modern art; The Gutai Group, Shozo Shimamoto, Liu Guosong, Zhuang Zhe. The book is then broken into four sections; Rethinking Tradition, Politics Society and the State, Asian Pop Consumerism and Stereotypes and Urban Nature. These four sumptuously illustrated chapters offer a headlong rush through the marvels of the contemporary art of Asia. The authors authoritatively identify the key figures and allow us to encounter a multitude of very different artworks while never losing the cohesion of their narrative. This is a recent history written in a sharp and straightforward manner, the general narrative touching down once or twice a page on a short biography or explanatory passage. It is a grand tour that is over before you know it.

"Uchu Universe" by Erina Matsui

There are some exceptional works on show. I wanted to review this book because I hoped there would be a lot here I had never encountered before - I was not disappointed. In particular I have this book to thank for introducing me to two wonderful artists, both of whom featured on the blog last week. Erina Matsui, a precocious and wildly imaginative 26 year old painter in oils who takes inspiration from toys and pop culture in her large scale self portraits and Ah Xian, a sculptor of breathtaking ceramic busts and an artist who fuses tradition and modernity with incredibly simplicity.

"China, China - bust no.3" by Ah Xian

“Today, contemporary Asian art is both sympathetic to the cultural and historical frameworks within which it is produced, but also, clearly, attuned to the global networks and international marketplaces in which is it frequently exhibited, bought and sold. To grasp its history we must decode an intense, multifaceted dialogue between cultures not just within Asia, but also in Europe and America.”

The book does a fine job of meeting the challenge the authors set. A beautifully illustrated overview of contemporary trends, an investigation of tradition and a reference book with an extensive glossary of artists biographies, lists of museums and galleries. And of course a treasure trove of art which will be unfamiliar to many in the west. If you are ready for the formidable and inspiring world of Asian Art there is likely no better companion than this.

"A big family" by Zhang Xiaogang

Asian Art Now by Melissa Chiu and Benjamin Genocchio. The Monacelli Press, 2010. ISBN 978-1-58093-298-1

See works from artists featured in the book -Matsui, Yun Fei-Ji, Nataraj Sharma, Manabu Ikeda, Ah Xian,

More Asian art on Art Inconnu - India, Iran, Japan, Phillipines, Singapore, Vietnam.

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Change of address

2010-12-14T17:50:00.007Z

www.artinconnu.com

As you may have noticed the site is now reachable at www.artinconnu.com, so please update any bookmarks. All subscriptions/links through google and blogger should continue to work as normal. ["L'éducation de la Vierge" - after Georges de La Tour (1593 - 1652)]

Frederick J. Mulhaupt (1871 - 1938)

2010-12-13T10:19:00.000Z

"Boats at Gloucester Harbour"

"Summer, Gloucester Harbour"

"Choate Bridge, Winter"

"Disaster at sea"

"Gloucester Harbour"

"Winter Harbour"

"Harbour Scene"

"Past and Present"

"The White Schooner"

Erina Matsui (b.1984)

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"Kiss two you" 2008

"Uchu Universe" 2004

"From the forests" 2007

"Feed chane Star Wars" 2008

"Metamorphose" 2005

unknown

"Ebichiri" 2004

"Docomodake"

"Paino Concerto" 2008

"No! Never" 2010

unknown

- 2009 Profile
- Profile @ official site

Yun-Fei Ji (b.1963)

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"The Flood of Badong" 2003

"The Move of Badong" 2002

"Water rising" (detail) 2006

"Last days before the flood" 2006

unknown

"The empty city, east wind" 2003

- My works are meditations on the mountains and waters as the image of our own moral failures
- Profile and works

Nataraj Sharma (b.1958)

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"London" 2008

"Brussels" 2008

"Bangalore 2" 2008

"Bangalore 1" 2008

"Bangalore 3" 2008

"Above Detroit (Winter) 2" 2006

Manabu Ikeda (b.1973)

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"Foretoken"

detail

"As yet untitled" (detail) 2008

"History of rise and fall" 2006

"Regeneration" 2001

"Existence" 2004

"Ark" 2005

"The galactic train" 2004

- Waves of detail
- Profile and works

Ah Xian (b.1960)

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"China, China - bust no. 4" 1998

"China, China" 1998

Four busts from the "China, China" series, 1998

"China, China - bust no. 10" 1998

"China, China" 1998

"China, China - bust no. 3" 1998

"Human, Human - Lotus 1" Hand beaten copper with fine cloissoné enamel, 2000-01

"China, China"

Bust from the Concrete Forest series

"China, China"

Ah Xian is a self taught artist who held his first exhibition in Shanghai in 1985. He migrated to Australia in 1989. His work has been shown in major survey exhibitions such as "Mao goes Pop: China post-1989," Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney (1993,) while his solo exhibitions includes shows at Powerhouse Museum, Sydney; Asia Society Museum, New York; and Stadtische Museum Heilbronn, Germany. In 1999 he received an Australia Council grant to travel to Jingdezhen to explore porcelain production, enabling him to expand his "China, China" series of porcelain portrait busts. He was awarded the national Sculpture prize in an exhibition at the National Gallery of Australia in 2001, and his works are in collections such as Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane and Asia Society Museum, New York [bio: Melissa Chiu]

- Other works

Guido Cadorin (1892 - 1978)

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"Nudo di fanciulla"

"Laguna con vela"

"Supredo di S. Trovaso"

"Laguna (Primavera in Laguna)"

"Zitelle Church" 1952

"Nudo e paesaggio fiorito" 1920

"Trincea"

"Figura verde" 1921

"Laguna"

"Campo della Bragora"

"La Lagune" 1916

"Nudo allo specchio" 1943

"Il Canale" 1921

"Case di Pellestrina"

"Veduta di Venezia"

"Laguna"

"El Gheto"

- Biography

William Victor Higgins (1884 - 1949)

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"Spring Rains"

William Victor Higgins (1884-1949) of Shelbyville, Ind., was only 14 when a broken wagon wheel near Taos, N.M., set in motion events that were to change his life.

In September 1898, artists Bert G. Phillips and Ernest L. Blumenschein were traveling by wagon, heading South from northern New Mexico. As Blumenschein told the story, after reaching the top of a steep grade on a miserable road, the wagon slid into a deep rut. One rear wheel collapsed "and there we were, balancing with our precious load at an angle of 45 degrees." The men tossed a coin to see who would carry the heavy wheel to nearby Taos, and Blumenschein lost. As he traveled with the cumbersome wheel on his back, he was deeply affected by his surroundings.

"Mountain forms II"

"I was receiving, under rather painful circumstances, the first great unforgettable inspiration of my life," he wrote. "My destiny was being decided." So, too, was the destiny of artists such as Higgins.

Blumenschein and Phillips were making the journey on the recommendation of fellow artist Joseph Henry Sharp, who had visited Taos for the first time in 1893. By 1912, they had been joined by artists W. Herbert Dunton, Banger Irving Couse and Oscar E. Berninghaus. These six men (later called the "Taos Six") began discussing the formation of an association of artists. Three years later, in 1915, they founded the Taos Society. The Society's first exhibition, in 1915, was greeted with huge acclaim, and the renown of the Society and its artists began to grow.

Higgins first learned of Taos while in Chicago and Munich through members of the Society, by then expanded to 10 members. He made his first trip to Taos in late 1913, sponsored by Chicago Mayor Carter H. Harrison and a syndicate of his friends. They agreed to support Higgins for a year in exchange for eight paintings. Higgins was able to make similar arrangements with other collectors and thus earn a living as a painter. He found Taos to be all he had heard of. He became a permanent resident within a year and was admitted to the Taos Society of Artists in 1917 and remained a member until its dissolution in 1927.

"Aspens up Twinning Way"

"Mountains and valleys" 1921

Like the other artists in the Taos Society, Higgins had his own vision and technique. He abandoned the lessons he had learned in Europe, using vibrant colors and depicting his subjects as realistically as possible. He recorded the daily activities of the Pueblo people, admiring them for their self-reliance and simple lifestyle. He wrote, "This strong primitive appeal calls out the side of art that is not derivative; it urges the painter to get his subjects, his coloring, his tone from the real life about him, not from the wisdom of the studios."

Higgins and Ufer brought New Mexico to Chicago in their works, dominating the juried exhibitions there from 1917 to 1919. Over the years, although he spent of his life in Taos, his style changed to more abstract, experimental forms. From the portraits of Pueblo Indians, he moved to landscapes, creating images unlike any other artist at Taos.

He remained open to change, often rejecting principles, styles and subjects that had brought him success. In the 1920s, he turned from Indians as his subjects and, to some degree, the Taos Society to embrace modernism. His first exhibition of watercolors, a new medium for Higgins, was in Chicago in 1931, and he emerged as an artist of national importance over the next decade.

"Fiesta Day" 1918

"The Green Picket Fence"

"My Gateway"

Due to a number of factors, Higgins suffered financially in the final years of his life. To alleviate the situation, he began painting "Little Gems," intimate landscapes painted on small panels of Masonite or board, for the tourist trade. Higgins took his studio on the road for these paintings: He drove his car to the area he wished to paint, opened the trunk and sat in it, always in a shirt and tie, if not a three-piece suit, with a painter's box on his lap and a cigar nearby. He sold the "Little Gems" for about $250 each. (They now start at about $30,000.)

The painter's box, along with Higgins' easel, palette and stool, now hang in a replica of Higgins' studio inside the Eiteljorg Myseum. Higgins continued to paint until his death on Aug. 23, 1949. His works are now prized for their beauty and technique and the link they provide between conservative, traditional painters and the bold, new painters of the modernist movement. Meanwhile, Taos continues to draw artists. Intense light illuminates the entire landscape of the Taos mountain range, deepening the many colors of the land and bringing a crystal clearness to the scenery.

Although all types of artists work in Taos, realistic painters dominate sales in the more than than 75 art galleries that fill the few streets near the village plaza. The art industry lures thousands of art buyers each spring and fall. The once-quiet town now holds museums, motels, restaurants and curiosity shops. [via]

"New Mexico Calvary"

"Pueblo"

"Rabbit trackers" 1918

"The Widower" 1923

"Winter Funeral"

"New Mexico Skies" 1943

Weather: Storm

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"Storm in the mountains" by Albert Bierstadt (1830 - 1902)

"Boats in a storm" by Mané Katz (1894 - 1962)

"The Cave of the Storm Nymphs" by Sir Edward John Poynter (1836 – 1919)

"L'orage au bord d'un lac" by Pierre Henri de Valenciennes (1750 - 1819)

"Storm chasing dog chasing girl chasing storm" by Geraldine Javier (b.1970)

"A stormy river landscape with a traveller struck by lightning, and a rider and his horse floundering at a ford" Circle of Philip James de Loutherbourg (1740 - 1812)

"Profil d'orage" by Jean-Paul Riopelle (1923 - 2002)

"Orage Venant, Les Andelys" by Félix Vallotton (1865 - 1925)

"Trois moines se mettant à l'abri d'un orage sous le fronton d'un tombeau" by François-Marius Granet (1775 - 1849)

"Effet noté après l'orage" by Jean Jacques Henner (1829 - 1905)

"Mountain Landscape with Lightning" by Francisque Millet (1642 - 1679)

"Storm down Pine Point Way, Old Orchard Beach" by Marsden Hartley (1878 - 1943)

"Storm Breaking Up" by Elliott Daingerfield (1859 - 1932)

"Storm over Taos" by Emil Bisttram (1905 - 1976)

Previous posts in this series can be found here.

Guest Post: Amadeo de Souza Cardoso (1887 - 1918)

2010-11-29T08:46:00.000Z

In the first of a series of guest posts, Katia Weber selects the Portguese artist Amadeo de Souza Cardoso. If you would like to make a submission to the site, please click here for more information.

Amedeo de Souza Cardoso in 1913

Amadeo de Souza Cardoso is a well known painter in Portugal although not internationally. Information on his work and life, can be found here. A major exhibition was held at Centro de Art Moderna – Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian in 2008 “Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso – Diálogo de Vanguardas”, followed by a Catalogue Raisonné (ISBN 978-972-635-203-7). I saw it, it was wonderful.

"Les Cavaliers" 1913

Amadeo Souza-Cardoso belonged to a time and generation considered the most rebellious and innovative of Portuguese art history: along with Almada Negreiros (painter, poet; Sarah Afonso husband), Santa-Rita Pintor (painter), Fernando Pessoa (poet), Mário de Sá-Carneiro (writer). Almost of them died young (some in tragic conditions). His paintings are at:
- Museu Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso, Centro de Arte Moderna, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian

Note: Amadeo produced a wonderful hand-made copy, with illustrations, of Flaubert Tale “La Légende de Saint Julien l’Hospitalier”, during the time Amadeo was in Bretagne, France, in 1916. You can see some of his illustrations here.

- Katia Weber.

"Portrait of Francisco Cardoso" 1912

"Saut du Lapin" 1911

"Procissão Corpus Christi" 1913

"Entrada" 1917

"Cabeça" 1913

"Composition"

"Barcos"

"Maquina de Escrever" 1917

"Clown cavalo salamandra" 1911-1912

"A Casita Clara - paisagem" 1916

"Pintura" 1917

"Wind dogs"

- A slideshow of the artists life and works

Jose de Togores i Llach (1893 - 1970)

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"Mujer y sus hijos"

"Printania"

"Retrato de Florenci Veciana"

"Buste de femme"

"Two nudes"

"Renée y el perro"

Unknown

"Mujer con los brazos cruzados"

"Renée et le chat"

"Mujer sentada"

"La pescadora de Banyuls"

"Rosellonesa"

"Torso de mujer"

"Mujer peinándose"

"Desnudos en la playa"

"Busto de mujer"

"El tonquinés"

"Los jugadores de billar"

"Mujeres dormidas"

"Nu aux bras levés"

Vasili Dimitrievich Polenov (1844 - 1927)

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"Woman walking on a forest trail"

John Roddam Spencer Stanhope (1829 - 1908)

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"Robins of Modern Times" 1860

Reading, Part 5

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"Léopoldine au livre d'heures" by Auguste de Chatillon (1813 - 1881)

"Untitled" by José Sobral de Almada Negreiros (1893 - 1970)

"Jeune femme cousant à la lueur d'une lampe" by Georg Friedrich Kersting (1783-1847)

"Monhegan's Schoolteacher" by Jamie Wyeth (b.1946)

"Chez soi ou Intimité" by Marie-Louise-Catherine Breslau (1856-1927)

"Pierre de Nolhac (1859-1936), conservateur du musée de Versailles" by Henri Girault de Nolhac (1884 - 1948)

"La Méditation" by Domenico Feti (1589 - 1624)

"Le révérend Randall Burroughes et son fils Ellis" by Johan Zoffany (1733 - 1810)

"An Interlude" by William Sergeant Kendall (1869 - 1938)

"Woman reading" by Dr. Teodoro Núñez Ureta (1912 - 1988)

"Vieille femme à la fenêtre" by Bartholomeus Van der Helst (1613 - 1670)

"Woman reading in bed" by Gabriel Ferrier (1847 - 1914)

The other posts in this series can be seen here

Annie Louisa Robinson Swynnerton (1844 - 1933)

2010-11-17T11:20:00.004Z

"Sense of sight" 1895

(detail)

"Illusions"

"Mater triumphalis" 1892

"Miss Elizabeth Williamson on a Pony" 1906

"New risen hope" 1904

"The Convalescent"

"Cupid and Psyche" 1891

"The Letter"

"Oleander" 1883

"Head of a Bacchante" 1903

"The Dreamer" 1886

"Crossing the Stream" 1886

"Joan of Arc"

Born in Kersal, then a suburb of Manchester. She was one of the seven daughters of solicitor Francis Robinson; she began painting to contribute to the family's support. Later she trained at the Manchester School of Art and the Académie Julian in Paris. She married sculptor Joseph Swynnerton in 1883 and lived with him if Rome for much of her maturity.

She was an active feminist and suffragette. With Susan Dacre she founded the Manchester Society of Women Painters in 1876.

In 1922 she became the first female associate of the Royal Academy since the 18th century. She died on Hayling Island in 1933.

Guest authors - Submissions wanted

2010-11-12T12:40:00.003Z

As one of a number of changes I am making to the site I am now looking for submissions for the blog from readers who would like to share a lesser known artist. The volume of suggestions I receive for the site, and the passion with which people talk about artists they love, makes allowing these messages a wider audience an obvious choice.

A short piece of writing is all that is required. That could be a brief overview or biography, a personal piece of writing on why an artist appeals to you, or the story of an encounter with their work. I would especially like to hear about artists from areas which are under-represented here (China, South America and the Middle East to name a few.) Don't worry about images, I can research those. Email me to discuss - artinconnu at gmail dot com.

The first post in this series will be published later this month.

[Image: Bartholomeus Van der Helst (1613-1670) - Girl with book.]

Gustave Van De Woestyne (1881 - 1947)

2010-11-12T08:20:00.000Z

"Boerinnetje"

"De likeurdrinksters"

"De slapers"

"Adrienne"

"Azuur"

"Gaston en zijn zuster"

"Gastvrijheid voor vreemdelingen"

"Portret van professor Fabrice Polderman"

"Portret van Prudence De Schepper, de vrouw van de kunstenaar"

- Gustave van de Woestyne

Thanks to Robbe Vervaeke for the suggestion

News roundup: November 2010

2010-11-11T14:08:00.000Z

""Margaret, Countess of Blessington (1789 - 1849)" by Sir Thomas Lawrence (1769 - 1830)

Interesting and unusual stories on art from around the web:

- £100 art purchase nets fortune
- A Caravaggio in Scotland?
- Buried "degenerate" art found in Berlin (more images)
- Lost Giotto masterpiece uncovered
- Parisian flat containing €2.1 million painting lay untouched for 70 years
- Spot the artist
- A Michelangelo down the back of the sofa
- The top 10 British artworks about war
- Gainsborough's forgotten rival recognised at last

François Fleury-Richard (1777 - 1852)

2010-11-11T08:33:00.002Z

"Valentine of Milan Mourning her Husband, the Duke of Orléans"

"Death Of The Prince De Talmont"

"Montaigne and Tasso" 1821

- Biography
- History of Valentine de Milan

Nikolai Kornilievich Bodarevsky (1850 - 1921)

2010-11-10T08:12:00.000Z

"Ukrainian Girl Tending Geese"

Lucien Victor Guirand de Scévola (1871 - 1950)

2010-11-08T08:33:00.003Z

"The Kings Daughter"

"La Princesse" 1902

"Portrait of a girl"

Guirand de Scevola (1871-1950), who invented camouflage, is an academic painter with a slight symbolist tendency. His works were exhibited, albeit rarely, at the Salon des Artistes Francais, the Salon Nationale and the Salon d'Automne. Elizabeth Louise Kahn describes the situation in which Scevola developed the military design. According to Kahn, the beginning of the war found him working as a telephone operator for an artillery division near the city of Metz. As an intermediary between the headquarters and the combatants at the front lines, he observed their communication. One of their exchanges revealed that the artillery unit at the front was hit soon after it began to act as the order, which led Scevola to believe that they had been spotted. At this moment the idea of camouflage occurred to him. After months of research and experiments, Scevola finally presented his results for the officers at Toul. He dressed a team of artillerymen in smocks and cloaks streaked with paint and assembled them around a cannon similarly decorated. An aviator then flew at an altitude of 300 meters in an attempt to locate the team, but was unable to distinguish them from their surroundings.

La Section Camouflage was thus inaugurated on February 12, 1915, with Scevola as the head of the team. Their orders included the painting of artillery, uniforms, airplanes, hangers, and ships; the concealment of transport routes, communication trenches, and battery installations; and the construction of observation posts in the guise of dead tree trunks. Britain soon followed suit, establishing the British Camouflage Service in 1916. In the following year, the British marine painter Norman Wilkinson (1878-1971) designed camouflage for ships, called "dazzle painting," which effectively distorted the true routes of British ships, and thus kept them safe from German submarines. In 1916, Germany responded by introducing a helmet painted with a disruptive pattern for their storm troopers, that helped diminish a silhouette seen over a trench parapet. The United States also established the American Camouflage Corps in 1917.

Throughout the First World War, the application of the camouflage pattern was limited mainly to artillery, ships, and helmets. Uniforms remained in monochromes such as khaki and gray. It is important to note that the main purpose of camouflage at this period is to disrupt the shapes of the objects when they are seen at a distance rather than to conceal them by harmonizing them with their environments. It is only after 1938, just before the Second World War, that Germany supplied camouflaged uniforms to the elite unites Waffen-SS and Wehrmacht with the latter purpose in mind.

Leon Kroll (1884 - 1974)

2010-11-05T08:47:00.000Z

"Viette Marie"

- 3 other works
- Biography

Julius LeBlanc Stewart (1855 - 1919)

2010-11-03T08:41:00.000Z

"Nymphs Hunting"

Julius LeBlanc Stewart was an American artist who spent his career in Paris. A contemporary of fellow expatriate painter John Singer Sargent, Stewart was nicknamed "the Parisian from Philadelphia."

"Les Dames Goldsmith au blois de Boulogne en 1897 sur une voiturette"

His father, the sugar millionaire William Hood Stewart, moved the family to Paris in 1865, and became a distinguished art collector and an early patron of Fortuny and the Barbizon artists. Julius studied under Eduardo Zamacois as a teenager, under Jean-Léon Gérôme at the École des Beaux Arts, and later was a pupil of Raymondo de Madrazo.

Stewart's family wealth enabled him to live a lush expatriate life and paint what he pleased, often large-scaled group portraits. The first of these, After the Wedding (1880), showed the artist's brother Charles and his bride Mae, daughter of financier Anthony J. Drexel, leaving for their honeymoon. Subsequent group portraits depicted his friends — including actresses, celebrities and aristocrats — often with a self-portrait somewhere in the crowd.

"La Clairiere"

"Nude in an Interior"

He exhibited regularly at the Paris Salon from 1878 into the early 20th century, and help organize the Americans in Paris section of the 1894 Salon. The Baptism (1892), which reportedly depicted a gathering of the Vanderbilt family, was shown at the 1893 Chicago World Columbian Exposition, and received acclaim at the 1895 Berlin International Exposition.

He painted a series of sailing pictures aboard James Gordon Bennett Jr.'s yacht Namouna. The most accomplished of these, On the Yacht "Namouna", Venice (1890), showed a sailing party on deck and included a portrait of the actress Lillie Langtry. Another, Yachting on the Mediterranean (1896), set a record price for the artist, selling in 2005 for US$2,312,000.

"Nymphes de Nysa"

Late in life, he turned to religious subjects, but Stewart is best remembered for his Belle Époque society portraits and sensuous nudes.

"On the Yacht Namouna, Venice"

"Study Of A Nude Woman"

John Linnell (1792 - 1882)

2010-11-02T09:03:00.001Z

"Storm in Harvest" 1856

- John Linnell in museums worldwide

Lilias Torrance Newton (1896 - 1980)

2010-11-01T08:18:00.000Z

"Nu" 1933

"Louis Muhlstock" c.1937

"Anna" c.1923

"Jeune garçon (Jack May)"

"Nonnie" c.1920

"Portrait of A.Y. Jackson" 1936

"Portrait of Ethel Southam (Mrs. F.H. Toller)"

"Sisters"

"Portrait of Frances Loring" c.1942

"Portrait of a child"

"Self portrait" c.1929

- Biography

Gunnar Berndtson (1854 - 1895)

2010-10-29T08:41:00.002+01:00

"The Bride's Song" 1881

Henri Lehmann (1814–1882)

2010-10-28T08:55:00.000+01:00

"St. Catherine of Alexandria" 1839

Hendrik van de Sande Bakhuyzen (1795 - 1860)

2010-10-26T08:22:00.001+01:00

"Self portrait"

Juan de Arellano (1614 – 1676)

2010-10-25T08:26:00.000+01:00

"Garland of flowers, birds and butterflies"

Studies by Helene Schjerfbeck (1862 - 1946)

2010-10-22T08:26:00.001+01:00

"Copy of Holbein´s painting Sir Richard Southwell" 1886

"Copy of Velázquez´s painting Infantinna Maria Teresia" 1894

"John Chambers, Copy after Hans Holbein the younger" 1894

Some of Schjerfbecks better known images can be seen here and here.

Nils Blommér (1816 - 1853)

2010-10-20T09:18:00.000+01:00

"Portrait of a black man"

Anton Kolig (1886 - 1950)

2010-10-19T08:50:00.004+01:00

"Die Familie des Künstlers"

Anton Kolig is one of Carinthia's most important representatives of expressionism. When, at the outbreak of WW I, the avant-garde artists abandoned the big cities for the countryside, a enclave of artists developed in the small town of Nötsch in the Gailtal valley, the so-called Nötscher Kreis (Nötsch Circle). This group of artists developed a regional variation of expressionism. Anon Kolig ranks among the major protagonists of this art circle. Kolig created the majority of his works in the Gailtal.

"Stehender männlicher Akt" 1924

Central to Kolig's works is the male nude. His wistful drawings of young men are full of power and tenderness. His nudes and self-portraits are coded psychological studies expressing mythologized emotional and mental states. When the Nazi regime started banning modern art in favor of Heroic Art, Kolig's frescoes in the Carinthian Landhaushof were destroyed as "degenerate art."

"Pieta"

"Self-Portrait with Blue Jacket" 1926

"Male portrait"

"Seated man"

Edouard-Jean Dambourgez (1844 - 1890)

2010-10-18T08:18:00.002+01:00

"A pork butchers shop"

"Cream and cheese merchants of Les Halles"

"Fish auction at Les Halles"

"The Cheese Vendor"

John W. Russell (20thc?)

2010-10-15T08:57:00.000+01:00

"Souvenirs du passé" 1930

Veikko Vionoja (1909 - 2001)

2010-10-14T08:48:00.001+01:00

"Kesämökin sisäkuva" 1974

"Kuvassa maalaus Ruiskukkia vuodelta" 1975

"Sisäkuva lemposesta"

"Fonster"

"Asetelma" 1968

"Self-portrait" 1949

"Still Life" 1973

"The Window of a Musician" 1962

"The Old Village" 1956

(Thanks to Candace Dwan for suggesting this painter)

Albert York (1928 - 2009)

2010-10-13T08:48:00.000+01:00

"Black bull standing in a landscape" 1982

"Bread and wine" 1966

"Edge of the forest" c.1963

"Reclining female nude with cat" c.1978

"The Sea, East Hampton" 1964

"Three Red Tulips in A Landscape with Horse and Rider" 1982

"Woman and skeleton" 1967

"Grey cow in landscape with pond"

"Red and Yellow Flowers in a Tin" c.1966

"Two Reclining Women in Landscape" c.1967

"Twin trees" c.1963

- The Paradise of Albert York
- “The most highly admired unknown artist in America”
- Timeline, publications, exhibitions

Orest Adamovich Kiprensky (1782-1836)

2010-10-12T08:30:00.000+01:00

"Portrait of A.O. Smirnova"

"Catherine Teleshova"

"Portrait of a woman"

Édouard Joseph Dantan (1848 - 1897)

2010-10-11T08:33:00.000+01:00

"Coin d'atelier"

"L'Atelier du Sculpteur" 1887

"A casting from life"

"Studio scene"

"Sculptor"

"From life"

- Biography
- A casting from life

Nikolai Alexandrovich Yaroshenko (1846 - 1898)

2010-10-08T08:47:00.000+01:00

"The Student" 1881

"A Nurse" 1886

"The Prisoner" 1878

"Portrait of the actress Strepetova"

Albert Gustaf Aristides Edelfelt (1854 - 1905)

2010-10-07T10:43:00.003+01:00

"The Virgin Mary in the Rose Garden"

Ramón Cano Manilla (1888 - 1974)

2010-10-05T08:24:00.000+01:00

"El Globo" 1913

Master of the Osservanza (active c.1430 - 1450)

2010-10-04T08:12:00.000+01:00

"St. Anthony the Abbot in the wilderness"

"The Birth of the Virgin"

"The Resurrection"

"The Temptation of St. Anthony Abbot"

"The Flagellation of Christ"

"Saint Lucy"

"The Descent into Limbo"

"Birth of the Virgin"

"Death of St. Anthony"

"St. Anthony leaving his monastery"

"Burial of Saint Monica and Saint Augustine Departing from Africa"

"St Anthony Goes in Search of St Paul the Hermit"

- A Victim of Anonymity

Jan Matsys (c. 1510 – 1575)

2010-10-01T08:23:00.000+01:00

"Flore"

Jos Albert (1886 - 1981)

2010-09-28T08:34:00.000+01:00

"The Supper" 1921

"Garlic"

"Snowy Landscape"

"Still life"

"Sunflowers"

"Le gateau des rois"

"Still life"

"Still life with eggs"

"Floral still life"

"Church in Brabant"

"Still life with eggs"

"De Abdijkerk te Grimbergen"

"Winter in Brabant"

(I wouldn't normally post images as low quality as this - if anybody has additional information on this artist, or better images, please contact me.)

María Izquierdo (1902 - 1955)

2010-09-27T08:48:00.000+01:00

"Portrait of Belem" 1928

Auguste Toulmouche (1829 - 1890)

2010-09-24T08:18:00.000+01:00

"The Reluctant Bride" 1866

"Le Baiser"

"Le Miroir" 1868

"Consolation"

"Young woman in an interior"

"Afternoon idylle"

"Vanity"

"La Toilette"

Joseph Granie (1866 - 1912)

2010-09-23T08:51:00.000+01:00

"Portrait of Margeurite Moreno"

Maria Sibylla Merian (1647 - 1717)

2010-09-22T08:40:00.000+01:00

"Caiman with South American false coral snake"

Þórarinn B. Þorláksson (1867 - 1924)

2010-09-20T08:33:00.000+01:00

"Sólarlag við Tjörnina" 1905

Þórarinn B. Þorláksson was one of Iceland's first contemporary painters, the first Icelander to exhibit their painting in Iceland, and recipient of the first public grant that country made to a painter.

Þorláksson was born in 1867, the 13th of 14 children of a clergyman father, who died when Þorláksson was just five years old. Originally trained and working as a bookbinder, Þorláksson studied painting under a Copenhagen-trained Icelandic woman, Thóra Thoroddsen. In 1900 he was awarded a grant by the Icelandic Parliament to study art in Denmark, and he trained there from 1895 to 1899. Returning to Iceland, he held an exhibition of his works at a place perplexingly called Glasgow, in Reykjavík, in the summer of 1900 - the first exhibition of Icelandic painting in Iceland. Þorláksson's principal interest was landscape painting, and perhaps fittingly a dominant subject in this first exhibition of works was Þingvellir, a site of enormous historical significance to Icelanders as the site of their parliaments (which dated back to 930 AD).

"Þingvellir" 1900

"Frá Þingvöllum II" 1905

Þorláksson continued to paint, holding regular exhibitions until 1911, however he required a regular income that could not be derived solely from his art. He taught drawing at the Technical College and other institutions in Reykjavík, and was principal of that college from 1916 to 1922. He also ran a shop selling art materals, journals and books until his death. Throughout his life he continued to paint, particularly in the countryside during the summers, and it was at his own summerhouse, Birkihlíð, that he died on 10 July 1924.

"Hvita i Borgarfirdi"

"Hekla ur Laugardal" 1922

Þorláksson, together with a small number of other artists including his contemporary Ásgrímur Jónsson, confronted and portrayed the landscape of their country on its terms and through Icelandic eyes, rather than through the conventions - and the light - of Western European artistic tradition. In this respect the work of Þorláksson and Jónsson played a role similar to that of the Heidelberg School in Australia (slightly earlier) and the Group of Seven, Emily Carr and Tom Thomson in Canada (a little later).

"Sumarkvöld við Reykjavík" 1904

"Storisjor og Vatnajokull"

Hans Thoma (1839 - 1924)

2010-09-17T08:55:00.000+01:00

"Taunuslandschaft" 1890

Irena Weiss (Aneri) (1888 - 1981)

2010-09-16T10:04:00.002+01:00

"Self Portrait" 1920

Fausto Pirandello (1899 – 1975)

2010-09-15T09:18:00.000+01:00

"Awakening" 1948

"Portrait of Picci"

"Donna Sdraiata" 1953

"Donne allo specchio" 1935

"Nudo"

"Nudo sdraiato"

"Bambina seduta" 1943

"Crocifissione laica" 1935

"Autoritratto" 1944

"Composizione con nudi e pantofole gialle" 1923

"Donne del lazio" 1935

"Figura riversa" 1953

"Composizione" 1923

- Biography
- The Years of Great Activity

George De Forest Brush (1855 - 1941)

2010-09-14T08:34:00.000+01:00

"A Celtic Huntress" 1890

Hermenegildo Bustos (1832 - 1907)

2010-09-13T08:42:00.000+01:00

"Portrait of Dolores Hollos" 1864

- Mexico's unsung master
- Biography
- Extensive collection of works

Karl Friedrich Schinkel (1781 - 1841)

2010-09-10T15:12:00.003+01:00

"Gothic cathedral with Imperial Palace" 1815

"Morning" 1813

"Medieval town by the water" 1813

"The Banks of the Spree near Stralau" 1817

"The Gate in the Rocks" 1818

Balthasar Denner (1685 - 1749)

2010-08-18T08:33:00.000+01:00

"Portrait of an old woman" c.1720

Djordje Andrejević-Kun (1904 - 1964)

2010-08-17T09:29:00.000+01:00

"The Mother"

Niccolò Pisano (1470 - 1538)

2010-08-14T12:02:00.000+01:00

"Idyll"

Aleardo Terzi (1870 - 1943)

2010-08-11T09:25:00.000+01:00

"Summer Morning"

Ernest Joseph Laurent (1859 - 1929)

2010-08-10T08:49:00.000+01:00

"Femme a sa toilette"

"Femme se chauffant"

"Femme nue"

Arnold Böcklin (1827 - 1901)

2010-08-09T09:22:00.000+01:00

"Journée d'été"

Attributed to Dosso Dossi (1486 - 1541)

2010-08-07T09:44:00.000+01:00

"Portrait of a young Man holding a Dog and a Cat"

Mikhail Vasilyevich Nesterov (1862 - 1942)

2010-08-06T09:55:00.000+01:00

"Portrait of Ivan Pavlov" (1935)

Robert Spencer (1879 - 1931)

2010-08-05T08:25:00.000+01:00

"A day in March" 1918

"Across the Delaware" 1916

"The Silk Mill" 1912

"Hill town"

"Conrete Bridge" 1916

"Riviera Beach"

"On the canal, Newhope" 1916

"Repairing the bridge" 1913

"The Evangelist" 1918-9

"A row of tennements" 1915

"The huckster cart" 1913

"The other shore" 1923

"The white tennement" 1913

"The old city" 1931

"The upper city" 1927

"The crowding city" 1925

"The barracks" 1925

"Harlem River" 1924

- The Cities, the Towns, the Crowds: The Paintings of Robert Spencer
- Robert Spencer's Art: A Balance of Spirit and Matter

Oszkar Glatz (1872 - 1958)

2010-08-04T08:58:00.000+01:00

"Testvérek"

"Kislány babával"

"Lányok" 1931

"Fiatal lány őszi domboldalon"

"Kékszemű kislány" 1941

"Kislány zöld korsóval"

"Kislány babával"

"Kislány napfényes domboldalon"

"Fiatal lány fehér fejkendővel"

"Piroskendős kislány"

Unknown Dutch artist

2010-08-03T08:35:00.000+01:00

"Head of a woman" 17th. Century
(slashed from a larger canvas, possibly a group portrait)

Leonard Campbell Taylor (1874 - 1969)

2010-08-02T08:55:00.000+01:00

"Patience" 1906

"Themes of taste and connoisseurship, with the emphasis on reproducing in meticulous verisimilitude the nuances of a particular time, are central to Taylor's work. Carefully judged in terms of colour and composition, they function almost as pieces of craftsmanship: repeated details, echoed passages, symmetry and overall harmony supporting the aesthetic axiom that a painting can be compared to a piece of music, or share the studious integrity of an arts and crafts objet de art."

"The Hall" 1952

Leonard Campbell Taylor was born 12th December, 1874 in Oxford. He was an English painter of subject pictures, portraits, and interiors with figures. He first studied at the Ruskin School, Oxford, and then at the St John's Wood School of Art in London and at the Royal Academy School starting in 1905.

He exhibited in London and Paris, working in a careful, traditional manner and ignoring the modern modes of art around him. Among other things, he did portraits of wealthy patrons like the Courtaulds. The artist lived in Suffolk. Died 1969.

"The rain, it raineth every day" 1906

"The rehearsal" 1907

"Japanese Prints"

"The Little Corridor"

"Persuasion"

"The Gallery" 1952

Sarah Paxton Ball Dodson (1847 - 1906)

2010-07-30T18:18:00.001+01:00

"Une Martyre (Saint Thechla)" 1891

Sarah Dodson was born in Philadelphia to a father who was an illustrator, engraver and portraitist. She studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and then went to Paris to continue her studies. Following a trip to Italy, Dodson was inspired by the Renaissance masters. She set her artistic ambitions on completing monumental works based on dramatic themes from the Bible, history, or classical mythology. She remained in France until 1891 and then settled in Brighton England.

John French Sloan (1871 - 1951)

2010-07-30T08:47:00.000+01:00

"The Wake of the Ferry no.1" 1907

As one of the leading proponents of the anti-academic "social realist" movement, John Sloan is considered one of the most important American artists of the early twentieth century.

Sloan was born in Lock Haven, Pennsylvania and grew up in Philadelphia. Forced to leave school in order to help support his parents and sisters at age 16, he took a job in a book and print store where he copied drawings and learned the craft of etching. In 1890 he went to work in a stationery store where he designed greeting cards and calendars, and continued to make etchings. During this time he attended drawing classes at the Spring Garden Institute.

"Pigeons" 1910

"Backyards, Greenwich Village" 1914

After an unsuccessful attempt to become a freelance commercial artist, Sloan took a position in the art department of the Philadelphia Enquirer in 1892. That same year, he began study with Thomas Anschutz at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art and also met the charismatic and free-thinking artist, Robert Henri. A lively group of artists, named the Charcoal Club, formed around Henri in whose studio they met weekly to paint, receive critiques, and discuss art and social philosophy. Among this group were Sloan and three of his fellow illustrators from the Philadelphia Press (where he started working in 1895.) The friends, William Glackens, Everett Shinn, George Luks, and Sloan became known as the "Philadelphia Four."

Sloan married Anna Maria (Dolly) Wall in 1901, and the couple moved to New York in 1904, settling in Greenwich Village. Sloan painted many of his best-known works during his early years in New York, and this was the period in which he focused on urban street life as his subject matter. Although genteel genre painting was a centuries-old tradition, Sloan and his friends preferred the gritty realities of working class life-store fronts, saloons, subways, back yards and rooftops-images that the National Academy considered vulgar and inappropriate.

"Six o'clock, Winter" 1912

"Rooftops, West 4th Street" 1913

His "snapshots" of urban life in oil and ink are now considered Sloan's most important output, but he sold very little at the time and continued to produce illustrations to make his living. He drew puzzles and pictures for the Philadelphia Press in addition to illustrating stories for such magazines as Harper's, Collier's, Scribner's, Good Housekeeping, and The Saturday Evening Post.

In 1908, Robert Henri (who also had moved to New York) organized a gallery show of young painters who, like him, were bucking the academic establishment with both the subject and style of their paintings. Named "The Eight," it included Henri, the Philadelphia Four, and three others whose work had been rejected by the National Academy: Arthur Davies, Maurice Prendergast, and Ernest Lawson. This landmark exhibition was the origin of the Ashcan School of social realist painting.

Ever the rebel, Henri organized the Exhibition of Independent Artists in 1910 as an anti-academic, egalitarian no-jury, no-prize show. Sloan quickly involved himself in the Exhibition and served as president of The Society of Independent Artists from 1918 until his death.

"Dust storm, Fifth Avenue" 1906

"The City from Greenwich Village" 1922

Sloan sympathized with his "man on the street" subjects but he did not identify with them. "I never mingled with the people," he said, "I feel as a spectator of life." The same was true of his politics. He joined the Socialist Party in 1910, and in 1912 he became art editor for Max Eastman's socialist magazine The Masses. Nevertheless, Sloan disdained propaganda, and his paintings and drawings rarely contained overt political content much to the consternation of its publisher. He resigned the magazine over this issue in 1916.

In 1913, Sloan helped organize the ground-breaking Armory Show which introduced European modernism to American viewers. He exhibited two paintings and five etchings. He also took away new influences from the Armory Show, especially the more colorful palette of the Fauves and the stylized drawing of emerging abstract painters which emphasized form and line over objective three-dimensional reality.

Beginning in 1914, Sloan taught at the Art Students League for about ten years. He also taught briefly at the George Luks Art School. His students are said to have respected his talent and position in the art world, but feared his caustic critiques. Among his better-known pupils are Reginald Marsh, Alexander Calder, and Barnett Newman.

"Travelling Carnival, Santa Fe" 1924

"Movies, Five cents" 1907

During the mid-1910s, Sloan spent summers in Gloucester, Massachusetts where he began to move away from his urban scenes and dark colors, instead focusing on landscape paintings employing a brighter palette. In 1919, Sloan traded Glocester for Santa Fe, probably at the suggestion of Robert Henri who had painted there during the summers of 1916 and 1917. Sloan returned to Santa Fe every summer for the next twenty-nine years, working out of a small studio on Garcia Street, just off Canyon Road.

Sloan became an active and influential member of the Santa Fe art colony and the local community. He especially liked the Museum of Fine Art's "open door" un-juried exhibition policy which allowed any New Mexico artist to exhibit work. That the open door program sounds like the Exhibition of Independent Artists is no coincidence since Robert Henri had encouraged the Museum in this direction during his visits to Santa Fe.

"The Wake of the Ferry no.2" 1907

"Sixth Avenue Elevated at Third Street" 1928

"A womans work" 1912

Most of Sloan's southwestern paintings are landscapes, although he also rendered street scenes, Indian dances, and other slices of the quiet, informal life of the desert town. He developed a keen interest in the arts of Native American in the region and became president of the Exposition of Indian Tribal Arts in the 1930s. He also lobbied the Society of Independent Artists to include Native artists in their shows.

Dolly Sloan died in 1943, and the next year Sloan married Helen Farr, who had been a student. After Sloan's death in 1951, Farr carefully preserved his estate and eventually presented more than 5000 artworks plus his archival papers to the Delaware Art Museum which now includes the Helen Farr Sloan Library.

"Sunday, Women drying their hair"

"The Hairdressers Window"

"Picture shop window" 1907

"Lake, Central Park" 1909

"Chinese Restaurant"

- Seeing the city - Sloan's New York
- Biography via
- Sloan's etchings