Coastal Scene With Sunflowers
Type:Painting
Size:20.00" x 24.00"
Medium:Oil
Signed:Lower Left
Henrietta Mary Shore ART FOR SALE
1880 Toronto, Canada - 1963 San Jose, California. Known for: Modernist landscape, figure, and portrait painting, murals.
Born in Toronto, Canada on Jan. 22, 1880, Henrietta Shore began painting at age 13 and studied at St Mary's College in Toronto and later in New York City at the Art Students League with William... Read full biography
Born in Toronto, Canada on Jan. 22, 1880, Henrietta Shore began painting at age 13 and studied at St Mary's College in Toronto and later in New York City at the Art Students League with William Merritt Chase, Frank Vincent Dumond, and Robert Henri. While in London she continued at the Heatherly Art... Read full biography
Born in Toronto, Canada on Jan. 22, 1880, Henrietta Shore began painting at age 13 and studied at St Mary's College in Toronto and later in New York City at the Art Students League with William Merritt Chase, Frank Vincent Dumond, and Robert Henri. While in London she continued at the Heatherly Art School and was the only private pupil of John Singer Sargent who greatly influenced her work. After arriving in Los Angeles in 1913, she became active in the local art scene and was a founder of the... Read full biography
Born in Toronto, Canada on Jan. 22, 1880, Henrietta Shore began painting at age 13 and studied at St Mary's College in Toronto and later in New York City at the Art Students League with William Merritt Chase, Frank Vincent Dumond, and Robert Henri. While in London she continued at the Heatherly Art School and was the only private pupil of John Singer Sargent who greatly influenced her work. After arriving in Los Angeles in 1913, she became active in the local art scene and was a founder of the Modern Art Society. She maintained a studio in Los Angeles until 1920 and then led a peripatic existence: Newfoundland (1920), Maine (1921, NYC (1920-23), Mexico 1927-28), and San Francisco (1928-29). Shore was internationally known when an... Read full biography
Born in Toronto, Canada on Jan. 22, 1880, Henrietta Shore began painting at age 13 and studied at St Mary's College in Toronto and later in New York City at the Art Students League with William Merritt Chase, Frank Vincent Dumond, and Robert Henri. While in London she continued at the Heatherly Art School and was the only private pupil of John Singer Sargent who greatly influenced her work. After arriving in Los Angeles in 1913, she became active in the local art scene and was a founder of the Modern Art Society. She maintained a studio in Los Angeles until 1920 and then led a peripatic existence: Newfoundland (1920), Maine (1921, NYC (1920-23), Mexico 1927-28), and San Francisco (1928-29). Shore was internationally known when an invitation to exhibit brought her to the Monterey Peninsula in 1930. After establishing a studio in Car... Read full biography
Henrietta Mary Shore - Art for Sale (3 available)
Self Portrait
Type:Painting
Year:1904
Size:14.00" x 10.50"
Medium:Oil
Signed:Lower Right
Notes:
Thought to be a self portrait – the eyes and other features close to her as a young woman. She appears in two documentaries I wrote that were telecast on PBS: Time Captured in Paintings and The Roots of California Photography. She was important in photography in having inspired Edward Weston.
Female Portrait
Type:Painting
Size:25.00" x 20.00"
Medium:Oil
Signed:Lower Right