Gertrude Fiske

Gertrude Fiske (American, 1878-1961)

Woman and Flowers

Gertrude Fiske took up the painter’s tools at a time when women were becoming more active in the public sphere of American life. Although still the minority, Fiske and other Boston women participated in the Museum of Fine Art’s school, which set forth a strict curriculum spanning seven years. Here, Fiske enjoyed the mentorship of artists such as Edmund Tarbell, a member of the American Impressionist group called “The Ten,” as well as Frank Benson. Between the years 1904 and 1912, Fiske also studied with Charles Woodbury at the seaside village of Ogunquit, ME; this locale served as inspiration for many of Fiske’s brightly colored beach compositions. 

Due to her artistic talents, Fiske was a major figure of the Boston School and also a member of women artists known as “The Pine Hill Girls.” Today her works are featured in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Fiske and her woman compatriots were recently the subject of an exhibition titled “A Studio of Her Own: Women Artists in Boston, 1870-1940.”

The Ten: Frank Weston Benson

Frank W. Benson (American, 1862 – 1951) 

Summer (1900)

Benson, a leading member of the group of American painters known as “the Ten”, taught in both Boston and New York and occasionally offered studio critiques to students at Rhode Island School of Design. 
In this painting, the light-filled view represents Benson’s daughters and niece on the cliffs near the artist’s vacation home on North Haven Island in Penobscot Bay, Maine. Rendered with the brilliant palette and broken brushstrokes of French Impressionism, it is based on sketches and photographs that captured the poses of these confident young women, personifications of beauty and optimism on a perfect summer day.
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River Landscape, 1924

Head of a lady

Evening, 1925. Watercolor, gouache and graphite.

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American Impressionism: John Henry Twachtman

The Winding Brook, c. 1887-1890

Moonlight, Flanders, 1885, pastel on paper

Red House, Pelhamas Lane, Branchville, Connecticut, 1889-91

Spring Landscape, c. 1890

Country House in Winter, c. 1891

Landscape

Sailing in the mist

The Wild Cherry Tree

Sailing In The Mist

Winter Scene

John Henry Twachtman (1853 – 1902) was an American painter best known for his impressionist landscapes, though his painting style varied widely through his career. Art historians consider Twachtman's style of American Impressionism to be among the more personal and experimental of his generation. He was a member of "The Ten", a loosely-allied group of American artists dissatisfied with professional art organizations, who banded together in 1898 to exhibit their works as a stylistically unified group. 

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