Английская Википедия:Gabrielle D. Clements

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Файл:Gabrielle D. Clements, Church and Castle, Mount Saint Michel.png

Church and Castle, Mont Saint-Michel, 1885

Gabrielle de Veaux Clements (September 11, 1858 – March 26, 1948) was an American painter, print maker, and muralist.Шаблон:R She studied art at the Philadelphia School of Design for Women, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and in Paris at Académie Julian. Clements also studied science at Cornell University and graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree. She created murals, painted portraits, and made etchings. Clements taught in Philadelphia and in Baltimore at Bryn Mawr School. Her works have been exhibited in the United States and at the Paris Salon. Clements works are in several public collections. Her life companion was fellow artist Ellen Day Hale.

Early life

Gabrielle de Veaux Clements was born in Philadelphia in 1858.Шаблон:R Her parents were Dr. Richard Clements and Gabriella DeVeaux.Шаблон:R Her mother, Gabriella DeVeaux, was from South Carolina. American Revolutionary War hero, General Francis Marion, her maternal ancestor, was called "Swamp Fox".Шаблон:R Clements attended Miss Longstreth's school in PhiladelphiaШаблон:R and developed an interest in art as a teenager.Шаблон:R

Education

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Samuel Hill, 1889

In 1875, Clements attended the Philadelphia School of Design for Women in PhiladelphiaШаблон:R under Charles Page, with whom she studied lithography.Шаблон:R She then attended Cornell University in Ithaca, New York from 1876 to 1880,Шаблон:R where she studied science, made scientific drawings, and received her Bachelor of Science degree. Her senior thesis was A Study of Two German Masters in Medieval Art, Dürer and Holbein.Шаблон:R After completing her studies at Cornell, Clements returned to Philadelphia and attended the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts from 1881 to 1882,Шаблон:R under Thomas Eakins.Шаблон:R She won the school's Toppan Prize.Шаблон:R Stephen Parrish taught her to be an etcher in 1883.Шаблон:R She produced a number of lithographs and scientific drawings during her school years.Шаблон:R

In 1883, she met American Impressionist Ellen Day Hale, who would become her travel and life companion.Шаблон:R About 1884, she attended the Académie Julian in Paris.Шаблон:R Clements studied under William-Adolphe Bouguereau and Tony Robert-Fleury.Шаблон:R Hale went to Paris with her.Шаблон:R In 1885, Clements exhibited at the Paris SalonШаблон:R and as the women traveled through France, Clements taught Hale to etch.Шаблон:R

Career

Painter and etcher

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Edmondo De Amicis, 1898, etching

In 1883, Clements began working professionally, making prints and exhibiting her works.Шаблон:R She created the appearance of 3-dimensions by overlapping, or interposition, in Church and Castle, Mont Saint-Michel (1885).Шаблон:R In 1888, Clements exhibited 20 of her works at The Work of Women Etchers of America show held by the Union League of New York, led on by Sylvester Rosa Koehler.Шаблон:R Held at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, it was the first show held at a museum of women's works of art.Шаблон:RШаблон:R David Tatham considered the exhibitions led by Koehler in the late 1880s to be "ground-breaking women etcher's shows".Шаблон:R Her etchings were based upon modern French techniques, like a la poupée, and were influenced by Woodblock printing in Japan and the works of James Abbott McNeill Whistler.Шаблон:R

Clement made a portrait of Edmondo De Amicis,Шаблон:R which was printed in an extra volume of etchings and photogravures to his 1888 book Spain and the Spaniards.Шаблон:R She illustrated a book of verses entitled Easter Song by Charlotte Pendleton, which was published in 1892.Шаблон:RШаблон:R

Clements painted sea, city and landscapes of places in the United States, like Cape Ann, Massachusetts and Baltimore, Maryland and other locations along the American East Coast.Шаблон:R She also captured foreign destinations, like Palestine, Algiers, and France.Шаблон:RШаблон:R During her career, her work was exhibited at a number of venues, some of which are the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, National Academy of Design, Philadelphia Society of Artists, National Museum of American History, and New York Etching Club.Шаблон:RШаблон:R Clements' etchings were exhibited at international exhibitions alongside the works of Francis Seymour Haden and James Abbott McNeill Whistler.Шаблон:R Clement exhibited her work at the Woman's Building and the Pennsylvania State Building at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois. She also exhibited at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition of 1904, and the Sesquicentennial Exposition in 1926.Шаблон:R

Muralist

Clements painted five murals for churches in Washington, D.C.,Шаблон:RШаблон:R and in Baltimore she painted views of the city for Bendann GalleriesШаблон:R and a mural of Oh, praise ye the Lord, al ye His angels.Шаблон:R Clements also painted murals in Detroit, Chicago, and Philadelphia.Шаблон:R Her mural, Harvest, was made for the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893 and the Шаблон:Convert work of art is now in the Cape Ann Museum collection and was conserved during a 2009 to 2010 exhibition at the museum.Шаблон:R In 1910, she made a Шаблон:Convert mural on canvas. In 2014, it was in the process of being restored at the Hugh McCall Mansion, site of the Women's Club of York, Pennsylvania. The plan was also to frame it in a 400-pound wood frame.Шаблон:R

Educator

She taught art at Baltimore's The Bryn Mawr School from 1895 to 1908.Шаблон:R There she taught new techniques, like working with aquatint and color etching,Шаблон:R by the turn of the 20th century, etching was not a profitable endeavor.Шаблон:R She also taught art in Philadelphia.Шаблон:R Clements taught print making, etching, and painting in Charleston, South Carolina with Hale during the winters during World War IШаблон:RШаблон:R or more specifically, from 1916 to 1920.Шаблон:R They helped inspire the creation of the Charleston Etchers' Club and influence the Charleston RenaissanceШаблон:R and over time the works of Lesley Jackson, Alice Ravenel Huger Smith, and Elizabeth O'Neill Verner.Шаблон:R

Personal and public life

Beginning about 1880, Clements assisted Eliza Sproat Turner and Florence Kelley in the establishment of New Century Guild of Philadelphia. It offered educational classes and programs for working women.Шаблон:R

Hale and Clements vacationed and painted together during the summers at a house they bought, "The Thickets" in an artist's enclave in Folly Cove on Cape Ann, Massachusetts.Шаблон:RШаблон:R In addition to Charleston, South Carolina, Clements and Hale traveled to Europe during the winter months.Шаблон:R Margaret Lesley Bush-Brown, who was one of Clements' students;Шаблон:R Cecilia BeauxШаблон:R; and Lilian Westcott Hale, Ellen Day Hale's sister-in-law; were their friends.Шаблон:R

Death

She died in 1948 at Rockport,Шаблон:R Folly Cove, MassachusettsШаблон:R on March 26, 1948.Шаблон:R Her works were exhibited 1994–95 at the Washington Print Club Thirtieth Anniversary Exhibition: Graphic Legacy and in 2005 at the Revival and the Professional Woman Artist, both of which were conducted by the National Museum of Women in the Arts.Шаблон:R Her sketchbooks, correspondence, photographs, and other papers are in the Archives of American Art at the Smithsonian Institution.Шаблон:R

Collections

• Academy of Vocal Arts, Philadelphia - A collection of seven oil paintings by Ellen Day Hale and Gabrielle ClementsШаблон:R
• Baltimore City Circuit Court, Maryland - Hon. George William Brown (1812–1890)Шаблон:R
• Baltimore Public LibraryШаблон:R
• Bryn Mawr College Library Collection - Mary E. Garrett, 1917, made after a portrait by John Singer Sargent, 1904Шаблон:R
• Cape Ann Museum, Massachusetts - Harvest, Шаблон:Convert mural, made for the Columbian Exposition of 1893Шаблон:R
• Greenville County Museum of Art, South Carolina - Garden Path, 1919Шаблон:R
• Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions - Prints and drawings, Fine and Decorative Arts, Medical ArchivesШаблон:RШаблон:Efn
• Maryland State Museum, AnnapolisШаблон:R
• National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C. - Church and Castle, Mont Saint Michel, 1885Шаблон:R
• Smithsonian InstitutionШаблон:R

• Paintings by Gabrielle de Veaux Clements
• Harvest, Cape Ann Museum, exhibited at World's Columbian Exposition, 1893

  Harvest, Cape Ann Museum, exhibited at World's Columbian Exposition, 1893

• Hon. George William Brown, 1901, Baltimore City Circuit Court

  Hon. George William Brown, 1901, Baltimore City Circuit Court

• Mary E. Garrett, 1917, Bryn Mawr College Library collectionШаблон:Efn

  Mary E. Garrett, 1917, Bryn Mawr College Library collectionШаблон:Efn

• Garden Path, 1919, Greenville County Museum of Art, South Carolina

  Garden Path, 1919, Greenville County Museum of Art, South Carolina