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History of Art:Helen Galloway McNicoll (1879-1915)

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Helen Galloway McNicoll (1879-1915) was a Canadian impressionist painter.

Born in Toronto, she became deaf in childhood as the result of scarlet fever. She attended the Art Association of Montreal, studying under William Brymner from 1899. In 1902 she moved to England to study in London at the Slade School and later in St Ives, Cornwall with Algernon Talmadge.

A member of the Royal Society of British Artists and an associate of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts, she died in Swanage, Dorset, where she had made her home, aged only thirty six. An obituary described her as "one of the most profoundly original and technically accomplished of Canadian artists".

Self portrait



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A wayside farm,1908





Beneath the Trees,1910
In the Shadow of the Tree,1914



Tea time,1911





Cherry Time,1912
Picking Flowers,1912



Fishing,1907





Interior,1910



The Open Door,1913
The Victorian Dress,1914




The Chintz Sofa,1913



Under the Shadow of the Tent,1914



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One of the foremost Canadian female practitioners of Impressionism in her time, Helen Galloway McNicoll is known for her sunlight-infused genre paintings of women and children in rural environments.

Born in Toronto in 1879, her family later moved to Montreal where she studied painting under William Brymner at the Art Association of Montreal.

McNicoll was unique in relation to other female artists at the time, as being the daughter of the vice president of the Canadian Pacific Railway she was subsequently able to further her art education by traveling to England to study at both the Slade School of Art in London and St. Ives in Cornwall, and to divide the duration of her lifetime between Montreal and England. It was in England that McNicoll met British Impressionist Dorothea Sharp, with whom she was to develop a close and long-lasting friendship.

One of the few artists during an age of artistic experimentation to paint using the fresh, clear chromatics and anecdotal themes associated with pure Impressionism, McNicoll exhibited with the Royal Society of British Artists beginning in 1913, becoming a full member of the society in the same year. In Canada, McNicoll was elected a member of the RCA in 1914, after having shown her work with the academy since 1906.

Particularly adept at capturing tranquility, McNicoll’s paintings were renowned for their portrayals of contemporary life imbued with an atmosphere of peace and stillness. It has been speculated that this heightened visual perception may have been a result of her deafness caused by a bout of scarlet fever in childhood.

Unfortunately in 1915 McNicoll’s career and life was cut short by yet another illness, and she passed away at the young age of 35 from the effects of diabetes.
*from-Canada's National Fine Art Auction House



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Seasons/Winter by Charles Warren Eaton (1857 - 1937)-(5)

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Winter Orchard, 1891 ,watercolour



Winter Stream, 1885 ,o/c



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Snow, 1888



Winter sunrise,1890



Melting Snow, 1900




Snow Slopes, 1890-1899 ,watercolour






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Seasons/Winter (around the world)

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Frederick Childe Hassam
Street Scene, Christmas Morning,1892


Thomas William Roberts (Australian)
Christmas Flowers and Christmas Belles,ca.1899



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New York/ Women/ Windows by F.Ch.Hassam

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New York Winter Window,1918-19



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The Breakfast Room, Winter Morning,1911




The New York Window,1912
The Table Garden,1910



Morning Light,1914



Reflections (Kitty Hughes),1917



Tanagra- The Builders, New York,1918




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James, Francis Edward (1849 - 1920)

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Watercolours by Francis Edward James

Source: © Trustees of the British Museum
Group of columbines (aquilegia)




Source:Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane
Daffodils


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Petunias




Bunch of flowers



Wall flowers




Source:Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane

Geraniums




White Stocks



Primulas



Lilies



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Mortimer Fine Arts


Single Tulips







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John Ruskin (14)

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“If you can paint a leaf, you can paint the world” John Ruskin

Part 2

Chestnut Leaves





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Eight Studies of a Primrose - Botanical Notes and Diagrams




Four Studies of Ling



Ivy-leaved toadflax (Oxford Ivy)




Under-surface of a dried Spray of Olive, gathered at Verona




A Wild Strawberry Plant





*for my dearest friends Anna K.(Bayern)and Galina L. (Kiev)

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Winter/Seasons by Ernest Lawson (4)

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Barges on the Seine,1894



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Canal Scene in Winter,1898



River Scene in Winter,1899




Stuyvesant Square in Winter



Morningside Heights,1904




Inwood on Hudson, In the Snow,1905





Harlem River in Winter,1906



River in Winter,1907



In the River,1907



Blue Night,1907




Harlem River, Winter,1910



Winter Scene,1913



The Dyckman House,1913



Melting Snow,1915



Cape Code Beach,1915


Creek in Winter,1917




Winter Landscape (also known as Trees in Blossom)1920



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Seasons by Ernest Lawson (5)

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Spring Morning,1900



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Spring,1913



Spring Morning,1913



The Road,1913




Landscape with Stream,1915



The Harlem River from High Bridge,1894-1910



Spring Night, Harlem River- 1913



Washington Bridge, Harlem River,1915



Spuyten Duyvil Creek,1914




Harlem River,1915




May in the Mountains,1919




Approaching Storm,1919-20



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Seasons by Ernest Lawson (6)

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Moret-sur-Loing,1895


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By the River,1906




Aqueduct at Little Falls, New Jersey,1906



Excavation - Penn Station,1906




Across the River, New York,1910




The Bronx River,1910




Horses Grazing by a Stream,1910-20



Washington Bridge,1910



Washington Bridge,1912



Harlem River,1911




University Heights, New York,1913




High Bridge - Early Moon




Dunwoodie, Upper New York,1910-15





The Pigeon Coop,1916



Waterfall,1916-9



New England Birches,1918-9



Poplars along a River,1919




Connecticut Trout Stream,ca. 1920



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Charles Polisch:Rose & Iris

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Red Rose, by Charles Polisch.
Watercolour. Paris, France, 19th century



Iris.Watercolour.




© Victoria and Albert Museum / V&A Prints

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Rose by Alfred William Rich


History of Art:Edward Darley Boit (1840-1915)

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Venice- Afternoon on the Grand Canal,1911


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Venice- Off San Giorgio,1911



Rio di San Barnaba, Venice,1911



A Street in Arezzo,1911



Venice,1910



Venice- Afternoon on the Campo San Trovaso,1910



Biarritz,1893




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The AMICA Library-Watercolours by Boit

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Like many wealthy Bostonians, Edward Darley Boit traveled frequently to Italy, eventually purchasing a villa in Cernitoio near Florence around 1897. Venice was a favorite destination for Americans in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; Boit first visited the city in 1867. The bright colors and watery environment were conducive to his fresh, spontaneous style, characterized by broken brushwork, as in this view of a Venetian square.

Although living the life of an expatriate, Boit frequently exhibited his European watercolors in New York and Boston, occasionally in joint exhibitions with his more famous friend and colleague John Singer Sargent. A review of his 1912 exhibition at New York's Knoedler Gallery noted, "In Italy, which Mr. Boit has made his second country, he delights in representing picturesque aspects of Venice, Bologna, and Florence; with a rare felicity he expresses the gaeity of the buildings, the streets, the canals bathed in sunlight...."




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Edward Darley Boit (1840-1915) was an fellow expatriate American Painter and his wife Mary Louisa Boit were friends of Sargent. They lived for periods in Boston, in Rome, and in Paris. Most likely they met in Paris although it's not known exactly when. It was in Paris that he painted the picture. Like Sargent, they were prominent members of the American artistic community and therefore shared quite a bit of camaraderie. (read more)

Daughters of Edward Darley Boit by John Singer Sargent


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The four Daughters of Edward Darley Boit are, from left to right: Mary Louisa (1874-1945, about 8 years old at the time), Flourennce (1868-1919, about 14 yrs old), Jane (1870-1955, about 12 yrs old), and Julia (1878-1969, about 4 yrs old). None of the girls ever married, and both Flourennce and Jane, the two rear daughters, became to some extent mentally or emotionally disturbed. Mary Louisa and Julia, the front two girls, remained close as they grew older, and Julia, the youngest, became an accomplished painter in water-colors

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Jiri Anderle & Music (P.3)

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Angels by Julia Hidalgo Quejo
(mixed media)




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