Carrie Waller, Abundance
By Jann Haynes Gilmore, PhD, AWA Board Member Photograph, Catharine Carter Critcher Painting in Taos, NM, 1923, (This photograph appeared in the Washington Post on June 5, 1921), reidhall.globalcenters.columbia.edu. Catharine Critcher was absent the day...
By Jann Haynes Gilmore, PhD, AWA Board Member Anne Goldthwaite, American Art Students Club, oil on canvas, 1908, Whitney Museum of American Art [previously owned by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney], New York. Having recently read Jennifer Dasal’s new book,...
By Jann Haynes Gilmore, PhD, AWA Board Member Lauren Pope, Flannery O’Connor, n.d. Book Cover, Brad Gooch, Flannery: A Life of Flannery O’Connor, Boston: Little, Brown, 2009. [Image: Emily Temple, 33 Portraits of Flannery O’Connor: Because Good Fan Art is Hard to...
By Jann Haynes Gilmore, PhD, AWA Board Member Gertrude Stein famously said, “You can be modern, or you can be a museum.” Her characteristically succinct writing style aptly summarizes this inconsistency. Museums traditionally preserve the past, and the term ‘modern’...
By Jann Haynes Gilmore, PhD, AWA Board Member If one is an art collector in an urban space where every wall is hung with art, one is prompted to overcome one’s passion (illness) for collecting because another purchase demands precious placement. On the other hand, an...
By Jann Haynes Gilmore, PhD, AWA Board Member American realist painter, Edward Hopper (1882-1967), is quoted as calling his wife of 43 years, “a nagging nuisance” and other unflattering terms during their marriage. Only recently has the importance of “Jo” Hopper...
By Jann Haynes Gilmore, PhD, AWA Board Member My AWA blogs about lost stories of women artists have been my mission here and I recently discovered the writings and project of Hall W. Rockefeller who founded Less Than Half. 1 Rockefeller, an art historian, has...
By Jann Haynes Gilmore, PhD, AWA Board Member Winter solstice has arrived once more; a change from warming interior sunlight to a darker domestic space that makes one feel like curling up with a good art book. It is a welcome time for those who love art and books. I...
By Jann Haynes Gilmore, PhD, AWA Board Member While the City of Paris was hosting the Olympics this year, an exhibition at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery reinforces the French capital’s right to boast. The National Portrait Gallery catalogue (book)...
By Jann Haynes Gilmore, PhD, AWA Board Member When Duncan and Marjorie Phillips were collecting the works of French Nabis artist, Pierre Bonnard (1867-1947), he visited the couple in their Washington, DC, home/gallery in 1926. Later in his correspondence with Duncan,...
By Jann Haynes Gilmore, PhD, AWA Board Member Peggy Guggenheim (1898-1979) was a character—not only an heiress but known best for her lifestyle. She was the daughter of Florette and Ben Guggenheim and her uncle, Solomon R. Guggenheim, established the New York...
By Jann Haynes Gilmore, PhD, AWA Board Member As it is often said, “politics is local”. The same can be said about artists who portray their surroundings and the people who inhabit them. Such is the case of Myrtle Jones (1913-2005) who recorded through her art the...
By Jann Haynes Gilmore, PhD, AWA Board Member It is a delight to write about Anne Goldthwaite, a rare Southern woman artist who lived on a world stage experiencing the birth of Modernism in Paris in the early 20th century, teaching art in New York City, and becoming...
By Jann Haynes Gilmore, PhD, AWA Board Member Greetings this holiday season! It is a delight to write about a marriage of two artists who enjoyed a true working partnership, Marguerite and William Zorach (1889-1966); and to focus on Marguerite (1887-1968) who ably...
By Jann Haynes Gilmore, PhD, AWA Board Member Late in life, Millicent Rogers was called the Patroness of Northern New Mexico and the progenitor of “Southwestern Style,” after she moved to New Mexico in 1948. She was the granddaughter of Henry Huttleston Rogers, who...
By Jann Haynes Gilmore, PhD, AWA Board Member Sense of place is a phrase often associated with art colonies and this is especially true of Santa Fe, New Mexico. Difficult to define, place is an allusive combination of senses: taste, smell, sight, and hearing, and in...
By Jann Haynes Gilmore, PhD, AWA Board Member Many affluent American women patrons built some of the best art collections in this country. Three major women patrons are showcased here, each of their families had multiple members who also contributed significantly to...
By Jann Haynes Gilmore, PhD, AWA Board Member The New Woman Movement began in the last years of the 19th century and had a profound influence on empowering women’s lives in the early twentieth century. Ironically, Henry James popularized the term when he wrote about...
By Jann Haynes Gilmore, PhD, AWA Board Member Each November, I am prompted to buy my next year’s calendar as appointments and events begin to pile up for the following year. Like most, I head to an office supply store and purchase the requisite commercially-printed...
By Jann Haynes Gilmore, PhD, AWA Board Member Anticipation had built for weeks. We arrived at Lois Dodd’s for tea a minute before our predetermined hour of 2 pm. Lois Dodd is an artist who has long painted in Maine and was one of the key women artists working in...
— CARLA O’CONNOR
2019 Spring Online Show Grand Prize winner, WA
