3 artists that interest me

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By: Mairead Murphy
1800-1950:
Frank Weston
Benson 1950-2014:
Georgia
O'Keeffe
1300-1700:
Frans
Snyders

2. Frans Snyders
(also spelt Snijders)
● November 15, 1579- August 19, 1657
● From Antwerp(city in Belgium)
● Flemish painter
● Originally was dedicated to painting flowers, fruits, and still-lives of markets
and pantries
● Eventually descended into painting animals (live and dead,fighting, and
hunting scenes)
● One of he earliest specialist animaliers (“animal painter”)
● Most noted 17th century painter of animals
● Acclaimed for skillful way of capturing textures and light on feather and fur
●

3. Concert of Birds
between 1629 and 1630, oil on panel, Height: 98 cm (38.6 in). Width: 137 cm (53.9 in).
Located at the Prado Museum in Madrid

4. Group of Birds Perched on Branches
1630s, Oil on canvas, 122 x 176 cm
Musée du Louvre, Paris

5. Vegetable Still-Life,
c. 1600, Oil on canvas, 144 x 157 cm
Staatliche Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe

6. Frank Weston Benson
●Born on March 24,1862 in Salem, Mass
●Influenced by Claude Monet and by his mother who used the top floor of their house to paint
and "forget about the rest of the world".
●1880- enrolled in Boston Museum School
●1881- began to teach art classes at night while he was still a student
●October 1883- studied in Europe
●1886- returned to Salem, Mass.
●Passed away on November 15, 1951
●Known for his realistic portraits, American Impressionist paintings, watercolors, aquatint,
engraving and etching
● Founding member of "The Ten" (group of ten notable American Impressionist painters from
New York and Boston who exhibited together for almost 20 years)
●Received many awards and acclaim:
● 1889- won Hallgarten Prize at the National Academy of Design
● 1893- Columbian Exposition Medal in Chicago
● 1896- provided decorations for 7 ceiling and wall panels in the Library of Congress
● 1887 became an Associate of the National Academy of Design and Academician in 1905
● 1914- founding member of the Guild of Boston Artists
● 1945- Selected into the National Institute of Letters and Arts
●

7. “Sunlit summers spent along the rocky coast of Maine with his family
inspired the acclaimed series of paintings for which Frank Weston
Benson is best remembered. Benson's paintings of his daughters
enjoying the fleeting days of a turn of the century summer holiday
provided the artist the opportunity to explore the subtle nuances of
light, a favored subject of the Impressionist
movement.”(globalgallery.com)
"Frank Benson painted some of the most beautiful pictures ever
executed by an American artist. They are images alive with reflections
of youth and optimism, projecting a way of life at once innocent and
idealized and yet resonant with a sense of certain, selective realities of
contemporary times.”
-William H. Gerdts, art historian

8. Sunlight
1909,Oil on canvas,
82 x 51 cm
Museum of Art, Indianapolis

9. Eleanor in the Dory
oil painting on canvas, 1904

10. Still Life with
Flowers
1922, Watercolor on paper
19 x 15 in. (48.3 x 38.1 cm.)

11. Georgia O'Keeffe
● November 15, 1887-March 6, 1986
● Grew up on a farm in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin
● Second of seven children in her family
● By 10 years old she decided to become an artist
● Art Institute of Chicago (1905–1906)
● Art Students League, New York (1907–1908)
●Quit art until 1912: took a summer course for art teachers at the
University of Virginia, Charlottesville
●1916: moved to New York
●1924: married Alfred Stieglitz (internationally known photographer
and art publicist)
●1929: spent the first Summer painting in New Mexico
●1946: Stieglitz passed away
●3 years later- moved to New Mexico (inspired her work since Summer of
1929)
●Worked in oil until mid–1970s
● Worked in pencil and watercolor until 1982
● mid-1970s-1984: created objects in clay
● 1986: passed away at the age of 98.

12. Georgia O'Keeffe
(Continued)
● “...her ability to capture the essence of the natural beauty of northern New
Mexico desert, its vast skies, richly colored landscape configurations and
unusual architectural forms, has identified the area as “O’Keeffe Country,”
the area nourished Okeeffe's creative efforts from 1929 until 1984, when
failing eyesight forced her into retirement.” (okeeffemuseum.org)
● Large format paintings (away from her husband)
● Recognized as the Mother of American Modernism

13. Sunflower For Maggie
1934

14. A Sunflower from Maggie
1937, oil on canvas

15. Above the Clouds I
1962/1963, Oil on canvas,
36 1/8 x 48 1/4 inches