Tag Archives: Printmaker
Artist Birthday Quiz for 1/8~
What Italian Baroque painter and printmaker became known for her ability to so quickly paint beautifully finished canvases that many visited her studio to watch her work?
What artist was one of the most universally admired painters of late 19th century Britain, so identified with that period that later on he was reduced to relative obscurity?
Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2016/01/08/january-8/
Artist Birthday Quiz for 1/2~
What German expressionist’s ardor for war was extinguished during his experiences in WWI, with the result that he is mostly known for his later sculptures warning of war’s tragic consequences?
What American surrealist was one of only three Americans in the landmark 1932 exhibition at the Julien Levy Gallery in NYC, which introduced European surrealism to the United States?
Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2016/01/02/january-2/
Katsushika Hokusai: Born October 31(?), 1760
Katsushika Hokusai (c.October 31, 1760-May 10, 1849) was a Japanese artist, ukiyo-e painter, and printmaker during the Edo period. Born to an artisan family in present-day Tokyo, he began painting at a young age, and became apprenticed to a wood-carver as a teenager. At the age of 18, he was accepted into the studio of Katsukawa Shunsho, an artist of the ukiyo-e style, which was focused on the depiction of the booming merchant class, including courtesans, Kabuki actors, and sumo wrestlers. After Shunsho’s death, Hokusai began experimenting with other styles of art, including Western styles. But he didn’t fully develop his own signature technique until he was expelled from the Katsukawa School.
FROM http://www.artnet.com/artists/katsushika-hokusai/biography
Hokusai is best known for the woodblock print series Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji which includes the internationally iconic print The Great Wave off Kanagawa.
Hokusai created the monumental Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji both as a response to a domestic travel boom in Japan and as part of a personal obsession with Mount Fuji. It was this series, specifically The Great Wave off Kanagawa and Fine Wind, Clear Morning, that secured his fame both in Japan and overseas. While Hokusai’s work prior to this series is certainly important, it was not until this series that he gained broad recognition.
Artwork~ https://ukiyo-e.org/artist/katsushika-hokusai
Artwork~ https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/rijksstudio/artists/katsushika-hokusai
Woodblock Prints in the Ukiyo-e Style~
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/ukiy/hd_ukiy.htm
Gerald Brockhurst: October 31, 1890-May 4, 1978
Jeunesse Dorée by Gerald Leslie Brockhurst
1934 / Oil on board / 30”x24 4/5” / Lady Lever Art Gallery, National Museums Liverpool, UK
British-born painter and etcher who became an American citizen in 1949. Precociously gifted, an excellent draughtsman, and a fine craftsman, Brockhurst won several prizes at the Royal Academy Schools and went on to have a highly successful career as a society portraitist, first in Britain and then in the USA, where he settled in 1939, working in New York and New Jersey. He is best known for his portraits of glamorous women, painted in an eye-catching, dramatically lit, formally posed style similar to that later associated with Annigoni. As an etcher Brockhurst is remembered particularly for Adolescence (1932), a powerful study of a naked girl on the verge of womanhood staring broodingly into a mirror—one of the masterpieces of 20th-century printmaking. ~Oxford University Press
“Dorette” and Gerald Leslie Brockhurst~
https://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/object/39559
Wikipedia~ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Brockhurst
Gerald Leslie Brockhurst painting the Duchess of Windsor~
https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw233820/Gerald-Leslie-Brockhurst?LinkID=mp08078&role=sit&rNo=13
Marguerite Mahood: Born July 29, 1901
via Marguerite Mahood (1901–1989, Australian) | THE GREAT CAT
Australian Dictionary of Biography~ http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/mahood-marguerite-henriette-14706
Artworks~ http://www.mutualart.com/Artist/Marguerite-Mahood/DDDF4D33FE2CF363/Artworks
David Hockney: Born July 9, 1937
Bob Dylan: Born May 24, 1941
Bob Dylan Through The Years~
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/pictures/photos-70-photos-of-bob-dylan-on-his-70th-birthday-20110524
Bob Dylan: Official Site~ http://www.bobdylan.com/us/home
Bob Dylan: Halcyon Gallery~ https://www.halcyongallery.com/bob-dylan/
Bob Dylan: Castle Fine Art~ https://www.castlefineart.com/artists/bob-dylan
Norma Bassett Hall, American printmaker: Born May 21, 1889
Norma Bassett Hall was an American woodblock printmaker who often depicted landscapes and outdoor scenes. She was born in Halsey, Oregon. In 1910, she become a member of the inaugural class of the Museum Art School in Portland, Oregon. After leaving Portland, she briefly taught in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, before continuing her education at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago from 1915-1918. She also studied privately with the noted British printmaker Mabel Royds, who introduced Norma to the Japanese method of printing woodcuts on rice paper with transparent watercolors. While studying at the SAIC, Norma Bassett met and would later 
marry Arthur William Hall, a fellow student and artist. Following their marriage, they made their home in Kansas, becoming deeply involved with the state’s flourishing printmaking culture and helping to found the Prairie Print Makers. Hall, the only female among the group’s eleven charter members, designed their distinctive logo, a monogram set within a stylized sunflower. Hall and her husband divided their time and subjects between the rolling hills of Kansas and the dramatic vistas of New Mexico. In 1944 the couple permanently relocated to New Mexico, living first in Santa Fe and eventually purchasing an estate near Alcade from which they operated an art school. Bassett Hall continued to work and teach from their estate until her death in 1957. ~FROM Wikipedia
Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art~
http://jsma.uoregon.edu/jordan-schnitzer-museum-art-opens-first-solo-exhibition-norma-bassett-hall-1957
Biography~ https://www.annexgalleries.com/artists/biography/927/Hall/Norma
Artnet~ http://www.artnet.com/artists/norma-bassett-hall/past-auction-results
Elizabeth Catlett (April 15, 1915-April 2, 2012)
Sculptor and printmaker Elizabeth Catlett used her art to advocate for social change in both the U.S. and her adopted country of Mexico for almost three-quarters of a century. The granddaughter of former slaves, Catlett was raised in Washington, D.C. Her father died before she was born and her mother held several jobs to raise three children. Refused admission to Carnegie Institute of Technology because of her race, Catlett enrolled at Howard University, where her teachers included artist
Loïs Mailou Jones and philospher Alain Locke. She graduated with honors in 1935 and went on to earn the first the first M.F.A. in sculpture at the University of Iowa five years later.
Grant Wood, her painting teacher at Iowa, encouraged students to make art about what they knew best and to experiment with different mediums, inspiring Catlett to create lithographs, linoleum cuts, and sculpture in wood, stone, clay, and bronze. She drew subjects from African American and later Mexican life.
In 1946, a grant from the Rosenwald Foundation enabled Catlett to move to Mexico City with her husband,printmaker Charles White. There she joined the Taller de Gráfica Popular, an influential and political group of printmakers. At the Taller, Catlett met the Mexican artist Francisco Mora, whom she married after divorcing White and with whom she had three sons.
Biography: https://www.elizabethcatlettart.com/bio
NYT~”Elizabeth Catlett, Sculptor With Eye on Social Issues, Is Dead at 96″: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/04/arts/design/elizabeth-catlett-sculptor-with-eye-on-social-issues-dies-at-96.html
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