Saturday, November 30, 2013
Friday, November 29, 2013
Thursday, November 28, 2013
Girl Reading at the Window (1911). Gwen John
Girl Reading at the Window (1911). Gwen John (British, 1876–1939). Oil on canvas. MoMA.
The American collector John Quinn was John’s only patron. He eventually owned at least eighteen of her paintings and fifty drawings and he included her painting Girl Reading at the Window in the Armory Show, America’s first ‘modern art’ exhibition, in New York in 1913.
Wednesday, November 27, 2013
Adolphe Valette, York Street leading to Charles Street, Manchester, 1913
Adolphe Valette, York Street leading to Charles Street, Manchester, 1913
Adolphe Valette was a French painter who is probably best known in the UK for being a tutor to the great L. S. Lowry whilst the latter was studying at the Manchester School of Art.
Tuesday, November 26, 2013
Photograph of Beatrix Potter aged 8, with her parents, by Rupert Potter, 1874. © Frederick Warne & Co.
Beatrix Potter aged 9, photographed by Rupert Potter, 1875. © Frederick Warne & Co.
http://melbourneblogger.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/beatrix-potter-artist-photographer.html
Monday, November 25, 2013
Vira Boarman Whitehouse
Vira Boarman Whitehouse (September 16, 1875 - April 11, 1957), owner of the Whitehouse Leather Company, suffragette and early proponent of birth control, with English stage and film actress Margaret De Wolfe Wycherly (26 October 1881 – 6 June 1956).
Circa 1915.
Circa 1915.
Sunday, November 24, 2013
William Gale - The Convalescent
signed with monogram and dated l.l.: 1862; also inscribed on the reverse: No. 1/ W. Gale / Langham Chambers / Portland Place
oil on panel
John Linnell - Red Sunset
signed l.r.: J. Linnell, and inscribed on a label, verso: A Red Sun-Set/ Begun aug 8/77/ John Linnell Sn.
oil on canvas