Elizabeth Nourse (1859-1938), Infant Asleep, ca. 1906. Oil on canvas, 13 x 16 in., signed lower right. Courtesy Thomas Colville Fine Art, Guilford, CT.
Elizabeth Nourse (1859-1938)
Infant Asleep
Elizabeth Nourse was born in Cincinnati but moved to Paris in 1887, a time when the city was the leading international art center, and where she established herself as a Salon painter who was highly respected among her fellow artists, collectors and the public. “Nourse’s career parallels that of other expatriate artist of the pre-World War I period, but certain aspects of it are unique,” notes the Smithsonian American Art Museum. “With Mary Cassatt and Cecilia Beaux, she was one of the few women painters to achieve international recognition for her work and, like them, faced certain obstacles that a male artist did not encounter.”
Not only did Nourse distinguish herself through her technical abilities but also her subject matter, which focused on depictions of working people and ordinary daily life, especially that of women and themes of motherhood, as in the present piece, Infant Asleep. The Smithsonian continues, “These subjects, banal in the hands of someone less sincere and less skilled, reflected her basic values, and Nourse was able to infuse them with a special sense of their importance and their universal meaning.”
Thomas Colville Fine Art
111 Old Quarry Road • Guilford, CT 06437 (203) 453-2449 • tlc@thomascolville.com • thomascolville.com
Louisa Winslow Robins (1898-1962), Buffalo Harbor in Wartime, 1943. Oil on canvas, 36 x 46 in., signed lower right; inscribed verso ‘Louisa W. Robins, Buffalo, N.Y.’ Courtesy CW American Modernism, Los Angeles, CA.
Louisa Winslow Robins (1898-1962)
Buffalo Harbor in Wartime
“On November 23, 1943, the headline of The Buffalo News announced, ‘1000 Bombers Leave Berlin a Sea of Flames, Explosions,’ relays gallerist Chris Walther. “Louisa Winslow Robins incorporated this newspaper in the foreground of Buffalo Harbor in Wartime, a painting which captured the United States home front at a pivotal time during World War II as the allies ramped up their bombing campaign in Europe.
Writing of the 1944 Patteran Society Show at the Albright Art Gallery (now the Buffalo AKG Art Museum), Buffalo News art critic Nora Lee Rohr, praised this work by noting, ‘Two of the largest canvases were done by Louisa W. Robins…Buffalo Harbor in Wartime is unique. Large and direct in its approach it was painted with special permission at the request of Lieut. Commander A. E. Eisele, USN, who supervised work on the ‘Sable’ aircraft carrier converted from the Great Lakes passenger steamer Greater Buffalo.’” Largely self-taught, Robins briefly studied with Ashcan painter, George Luks during the summers in Connecticut beginning in 1918 at the Buffalo Fine Art Academy, graduating in 1930. Until her death in 1962, Robins actively exhibited in the Buffalo area and nationwide.
CW American Modernism
Los Angeles, CA • By Appointment cwameicanmodernism@gmail.com
Adelaide Lawson Gaylor (1889-1986), Restaurant, ca. 1925. Oil on canvas, 24¼ x 30 in., signed lower right. Courtesy Lincoln Glenn, New York, NY.
Adelaide Lawson Gaylor (1889-1986)
Restaurant
Adelaide Lawson Gaylor was a painter known for her modernist oil paintings of figures and landscapes. Rendered in a flat style without affectation, her subjects often gaze directly at the viewer, and sometimes appear somewhat disconnected from their surroundings. She completed her artistic training at the Art Students League of New York under Kenneth Hayes Miller and also studied under Hamilton Easter Field at his Ogunquit School of Painting and Sculpture in Ogunquit, Maine.
Lawson’s first public exhibition was at the MacDowell Club in New York City in 1916. In 1922, she contributed a painting to a group exhibition held at a segregated high school art studio in Washington, D.C., organized and run by black artists. Lawson was a supporter of Black rights and active as an artist in New York during the Harlem Renaissance. In some records her name can be found listed among other Black artists. However, Gaylor’s family and descendants were of Armenian heritage. She and her husband, artist Wood Gaylor, counted among their group of friends Josephine Baker, William and Marguerite Zorach, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Walt Kuhn and John Dos Passos. Lawson was a member of the New York Society of Women Artists, Society of American Independent Artists and the Salons of America.
Lincoln Glenn
542 West 24th Street • New York, New York 10011 (646) 764-9065 • gallery@lincolnglenn.com www.lincolnglenn.com
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