The work of the painter Gwen John has always seemed at a careful remove from the revolutionary modernist spirit that we associate with Paris in the early 20th century. She arrived in the city in 1904, ...
'Gwen John: Art and Life in London and Paris,' in on view at Pallant House Gallery in Chichester, through October 8. Gwen John, Landscape at Tenby with Figures (c ...
Gwen John, whose full name was Gwendolen Mary John, was a British artist known for her oil paintings and portraits of anonymous female sitters. "I paint a good deal, but I don't often get a picture ...
The Welsh-born painter Gwen John is generally remembered as a “fragile”, isolated figure, said Mark Hudson in The Independent. Neglected for some time after her death, John (1876-1939) was ...
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The essence of Gwen John’s art is summed up by her teacher James Abbott McNeill Whistler: tone. When her brother Augustus John talked about the character of her work, Whistler fired back, “Character?
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Gwen John: Art and Life in London and Paris shows the nature of her dogged opposition: how she fought back, and won, in her own way. Both Celia Paul and Gwen John oriented their lives around being ...