Forever Seeing New Beauties : The Forgotten Impressionist Mary Rogers Williams, 1857-1907 / Eve M. Kahn.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kahn, Eve M., author.

Series:

Driftless Connecticut series.

The Driftless Connecticut Series and Garnet Bks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Impressionist artists--Connecticut--Biography.

Impressionist artists.

Painters--Connecticut--Biography.

Painters.

Williams, Mary Rogers, 1857-1907.

Williams, Mary Rogers.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (273 pages : color illustrations).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Middletown, CT : Wesleyan University Press, [2019]

Summary:

"Mary Rogers Williams was born and raised in Hartford, Connecticut. She taught art at Smith College and travelled extensively through Europe and Scandinavia. Her work was shown in New York, Boston, and Paris; critics of the day didn't know what to make of her "poetic sensibility" and "shadowy quality". The book includes color reproductions and illustrations. About the author: Eve M. Kahn is a freelance writer specializing in architecture, design and preservation, and was Antiques Columnist at The New York Times, 2008-2016"-- Provided by publisher

Contents:

Cover

Forever Seeing New Beauties

Title

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Introduction: The Funny Way I Stumbled upon Her

Notes on Methodology

1 Why She Matters

2 A Cosmopolitan Emerges

3 No Salvation but by Hard Work

4 Conveying the Rudiments of Art

5 Art, Her Boss's Jealous Mistress

6 A Rare Dear Overseas

7 Wholly in Pale Tints

8 He Certainly Is Unregenerate

9 Strange and Beautiful Things

10 Misfit in This Workaday World

11 A Pastel Every Five Minutes

12 To Exhibit in the Provincial Towns

13 My Own Femme de Ménage

14 The Most Magic House in the World

15 Crisp and Free in Treatment

16 A Serene and Confident Air

17 I'd Like to Run Away

18 Old Friends and Some New Ones

19 I Feel Like Thirty Cents

20 Light So Exquisite

21 Nervous Energy Spent Teaching

22 Out of the Harness

23 Pangs of Loneliness

24 A Peaceful Comfortable Feeling

25 Wild to Go Out on a Comet Hunt

26 How Hard It Is for My Sisters

27 Exquisite and Unerring Artistic Taste

28 Logical Custodians in Chaotic Days

29 The Resurrectionists

Acknowledgments

Appendix

Notes

Index

About the Author.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Includes index.

ISBN:

9780819578754

0819578754