Tamara de Lempicka~ Born May 16, 1898(?)

Who was she? De Lempicka shuffled the facts of her biography much as she meddled with her birth date.
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Her time was the 1920s: a period of transition, an era in which functionalism merged with fantasy and formal social structures lurched into the frenetic. In essence, De Lempicka was a classicist, having admired Renaissance painting since her adolescent travels in Italy. But she astutely combined traditional portraiture with advertising techniques, photographic lighting, vistas of the tower architecture of great cities.
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In 1939, urged by Tamara, who was partly Jewish, Kuffner sold his estates in Hungary and they moved to the US. In New York, she tried abstract expressionism unsuccessfully, and was reduced to the role of a chic curiosity, “the painting baroness”.
FROM https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2004/may/15/art

http://www.nytimes.com/books/99/10/24/reviews/991024.24vincent.html
http://culture.pl/en/artist/tamara-lempicka-tamara-de-lempicka

17Mar2016

Kate Greenaway: Born on March 17, 1846

Posted in #5WomenArtists, Women Artists by Christy

K is for Kate…Kate Greenaway

English artist and writer, known for her children’s book illustrations. She studied graphic design and art at the South Kensington School of Art; the Royal Female School of Art and the Slade School of Fine Art. She began her career designing for the burgeoning holiday card market, producing Christmas and Valentine’s cards. In 1879 wood-block engraver and printer, Edmund Evans, printed Under the Window, an instant best-seller, which established her reputation. Her collaboration with Evans continued throughout the 1880s and 1890s.
https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/art-artists/name/kate-greenaway

Still more about Kate Greenaway here: http://www.victorianweb.org/victorian/art/illustration/greenaway/index.html and here: https://www.illustrationhistory.org/artists/kate-greenaway

17Mar2016

Pattie Boyd: Born on March 17, 1944

Posted in #5WomenArtists, Women Artists by Christy

Patricia Anne “Pattie” Boyd (born March 17, 1944) is a model, photographer and author, born in Somerset, England. She was the first wife of both George Harrison and Eric Clapton…Pattie began her modeling career in 1962 in London, and appeared on the cover of Vogue and in several advertising campaigns. She was cast in the Beatles’ first feature film A Hard Days Night in 1964, where she first met George Harrison…She married George Harrison in January, 1966 and when being a ‘Beatle wife’ made it too difficult to work, she began taking a strong interest in photography.

https://sfae.com/Artists/Pattie-Boyd

Pattie Boyd is sick of being called a muse: ‘What have I done to inspire George Harrison?’
https://english.elpais.com/culture/2022-10-14/pattie-boyd-is-sick-of-being-called-a-muse-what-have-i-done-to-inspire-george-harrison.html

Pattie Boyd Talks Art, Fashion, and Beatlemania
https://lithub.com/pattie-boyd-talks-art-fashion-and-beatlemania/

Pattie Boyd, often in the shadow of her famous husbands, has put a trove of mementos up for auction
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/amp/arts/pattie-boyd-often-in-the-shadow-of-her-famous-husbands-has-put-a-trove-of-mementos-up-for-auction

15Jan2016

Frances Benjamin Johnston: Born January 15, 1864

Posted in Artists Born Today Include:, Women Artists by Christy

“Frances Benjamin Johnston (1864-1952) was one of the first American women to achieve prominence as a photographer. Trained at the Académie Julian in Paris, she studied photography upon her return to Washington, D.C., in the mid-1880s and opened a professional studio circa 1890. Her family’s social position gave Johnston access to the First Family and leading Washington political figures and launched her career as a photojournalist and portrait photographer. Johnston turned to garden and estate photography in 1910s.”
~https://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/fbj/

Frances Benjamin Johnston~ http://www.cliohistory.org/exhibits/johnston/
Photographs~ http://www.whitehousehistory.org/galleries/frances-benjamin-johnston
Library of Congress~ http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/coll/fbjchron.html

10Jan2016

Barbara Hepworth: Born January 10, 1903

Posted in Artists Born Today Include:, Women Artists by Christy

https://www.thelondonmagazine.org/i-the-sculptor-am-the-landscape-barbara-hepworths-roots-of-stone/

Barbara Hepworth was a British sculptor, who was born in Wakefield, Yorkshire in 1903. She was a leading figure in the international art scene throughout a career spanning five decades.
~ link: Who is Barbara Hepworth?

Biography~https://mymodernmet.com/barbara-hepworth/
Official site~ https://barbarahepworth.org.uk/