St Ives School
The St Ives School refers to a group of artists living and working in the
History
The town became a magnet for artists following the extension to west
Albert Julius Olsson and Louis Grier opened the town's first art school in 1888, and were later joined by Algernon Talmage.[2] Talmage lived and worked in his studio (then called 'The Cabin', located on Westcotts Quay, St Ives).[4] John Noble Barlow settled in St Ives in 1892, although later, he had a studio in the Lamorna Valley, Cornwall. Thomas Millie Dow moved with his family to St Ives in 1894, where Dow joined his friends and fellow painters Louis Grier and Lowell Dyer as members of the St Ives Art Club.[5]
Expatriate artists
American Impressionist painters
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Julius Olsson, Silver Moonlight, St Ives Bay, Southampton City Art Gallery, UK
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Algernon Talmage, Marine,Bushey Museum, Hertfordshire, UK
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John Noble Barlow, Cliff Scene, Royal Cornwall Museum, Truro, UK
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Thomas Millie Dow, St Ives Harbour,
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Edward Simmons, Low Tide, St Ives Harbor, private collection
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Howard Russell Baker, Yellow Sweater, private collection
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Anders Zorn, Fish Market, St Ives, private collection
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Hayley Lever, Winter in St Ives, Brooklyn Museum, New York City
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Frederick Judd Waugh, Southwesterly Gale, St Ives, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.
Post-WWI
In 1920
In 1928
The St Ives School of Painting was established in the historic Porthmeor studios at the centre of St Ives' artists' quarter in 1938 by Borlase Smart and Leonard Fuller.[16]
With the outbreak of the
After the war ended, a new and younger generation of artists emerged, led by Hepworth and Nicholson (Gabo departed in 1946). From about 1950 a group of younger artists gathered in St Ives who included Peter Lanyon, John Wells, Roger Hilton, Rose Hilton, Bryan Wynter, Patrick Heron, Terry Frost, Alexander Mackenzie, Harry Ousey, Wilhelmina Barns-Graham, Stass Paraskos, Paul Feiler, and Karl Weschke together with the pioneer modern potter, Bernard Leach (Nicholson departed in 1958), and including, for a while, Sven Berlin. It is with this group, together with Hepworth and Nicholson, that the term 'St Ives School' is particularly associated.[1]
A 2010 ninety-minute
St Ives School today
The heyday of the St Ives School was in the 1950s and 1960s. In 1993, the
See also
References
- ^ Tate GalleryAccessed 9 September 2017.
- ^ a b The Early Artists' Colony, from St Ives Society of Artists.
- ISBN 978-1-85149-170-4. Retrieved 16 October 2011.
- ^ Grove Art Online. Oxford University Press, accessed 20 April 2008.
- ^ Grier, Louis The Studio Vol V (1895). See photograph "Some members" p 111.
- ^ Edward Simmons, from Borlase Smart John Wells Trust.
- ^ Howard Russell Butler, from Cornwall Artists.
- ^ Vesta S. Simmons, from Cornwall Artists Index.
- ^ Anders Zorn, from Cornwall Artists.
- ^ Sydney Laurence biography at alaskahistory.org Accessed 9 September 2017
- ^ Emily Carr, from Cornwall Artists.
- ^ Carol Lowrey, et al., Haley Lever and the Modern Spirit, exhibition catalogue (New York: Spanierman Gallery, 2010), p. 40.
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- ^ C. Lewis Hind, "An American Landscape Painter: W. Elmer Schofield," The International Studio, vol. 48, no. 191 (January 1912), pp. 280–89.[1]
- ^ a b David Tovey, Creating A Splash - The St. Ives Society of Artists - The First 25 Years (1927–1952) (Hilmarton Manor Press, 2003).
- ^ "Our History". schoolofpainting.co.uk. UK: St Ives School of Painting. Retrieved 2 September 2016.
- ^ The Art of Cornwall - "...eight artists who most made this miracle possible, from Kit Wood and Alfred Wallis to Barbara Hepworth and Ben Nicholson, are featured in a documentary which offers an alternative history of the 20th century avant-garde...", BBC Accessed 9 September 2017
- ^ The Art of Cornwall-00 introduction, YouTube.
- ^ Helen Hoyle, review of The Art of Cornwall, artcornwall.org. Accessed 9 September 2017
External links
- Walker, John. (1992) "St Ives School". Glossary of Art, Architecture & Design since 1945, 3rd. ed.
- St Ives School of Painting website
- St Ives Society of Artists