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William McTaggart. Part 2. The later years.
Self portrait (1852) William McTaggart’s art was likened to Impressionism and yet he was a forerunner of that genre. He was a pioneer of Impressionism before it was given a label. It is true that he...
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Remedios Varo. Part 1: Surrealism, the early days, family life and schooling.
Remedios Varo We all have our favourite art genre and within that genre we also probably have our favourite artists. For me, I like the Golden Age painters of The Netherlands and the Scandinavian...
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Remedios Varo: Part 2. Lovers and war.
Remedios Varo Whilst attending the Academia de San Fernando in Madrid Remedios met Gerrado Lizarraga, a fellow student. He was a Basque from Pamplona, a lanky, long-nosed man, known for his honesty...
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Remedios Varo. Part 3. Escape and flight from oppression.
Remedios Varo Remedios Varo’s six year old marriage to Gerado Lizarraga was in decline and she started a romantic relationship with the young Spanish surrealist painter Esteban Francés, and a short...
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Remedios Varo. Part 4 – A new life in Mexico
Remedios Varo at work in her studio Varo arrived in Mexico at the end of 1941 having had to flee the oppression of Vichy France and the Nazis. She had been accepted by the Mexican government and...
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Remedios Varo. Part 5. The productive years.
In 1958, Remedios Varo participated in the First Salon of Women’s Art at the Galerías Excelsior of Mexico, together with Leonora Carrington, Alice Rahon, Bridget Bate Tichenor and other contemporary...
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George Hendrik Breitner – The Amsterdam Impressionist.
George Hendrik Breitner The artist I am looking at today is George Hendrik Breitner, the nineteenth century Dutch painter, who was best known for his realistic depiction of Amsterdam street and harbour...
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Laurits Andersen Ring. Part 1. Death, unrequited love and depression.
Portrait of Laurits Andersen Ring by Knud Larsen ecently I gave you five blogs which were devoted to one of the great Surrealist artists of the twentieth century but today I am reverting back to what I...
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Laurits Ring. Part 2 – True love and happiness.
The Road at Mogenstrup, Zealand. Autumn, by Laurits Ring (1888) In the later part of the nineteenth century, Ring concentrated on landscape painting. For Ring, painting landscapes allowed him, through...
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Jules Breton. Part 1. The beginning of an artistic journey.
Before the era of photography and mobile phones, paintings were often bought as pictorial aide-mémoirs and I am sure it still happens nowadays. It could be a portrait of a friend, relative or...
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Jules Breton. Part 2. Ruralism and Naturalism.
Jules Breton (1890) Little did Jules know but this trip with his father to arrange his art tutoring was the last time they would be together as shortly after his father returned to Courrieres, he died....
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The Red Rose Girls. Part 1. Elizabeth Shippen Green.
In my next series of blogs, I want to look at the lives of three talented women artists – Jessie Willcox Smith, Elizabeth Shippen Green and Violet Oakley. These three artists enchanted and fascinated...
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The Red Rose Girls. Part 2. Violet Oakley
Violet Oakley The second of the Red Rose Girls I am featuring is Violet Oakley....
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Jules Breton. Part 3. Rural Life and Religious Ceremonies.
Breton Peasant Woman Holding a Taper by Jules Breton (1869) Besides his rural works of art, Jules Breton will also be remembered for his religious paintings. One simple work was his 1869 painting...
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The Red Rose Girls. Part 3. Jessie Willcox Smith.
The third of the Red Rose Girls was Jessie Willcox Smith. She became one of the most prominent female illustrators in the United States, during the celebrated ‘Golden Age of Illustration‘. Jessie...
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The Red Rose Girls. Part 4. Howard Pyle.
Howard Pyle The story of The Rose Girls could not be told without talking about the American illustrator and author, primarily of books for young people, Howard Pyle, who gave the The Rose Girls...
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The Red Rose Girls. Part 5. The latter years.
Front cover illustration of The Ladies Home Journal by Jessie Wilcox Smith Jessie Willcox Smith rented a small studio space at 1334 Chestnut Street, in downtown Philadelphia. The studio, although...
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Frederick Childe Hassam – The American Impressionist.
Frederick Childe Hassam Today I am looking at the life of the nineteenth century American painter, and an important illustrator during the “golden age” of American illustration in the 1880s and 1890s....
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Fern Isobel Coppedge. Part 1
Fern Isabel Coppedge in her studio My featured artist today was one of the Pennsylvania Impressionists, an artistic movement of the first half of the 20th century that was centred in and around Bucks...
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Fern Isabel Coppedge. Part 2.
The Coal Barge by Fern Isabel Coppedge One of Fern Coppedge’s later paintings, The Coal Barge, which she completed around 1940, featured the...
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