A painter in Fauve style of female figures, still lifes and landscapes, Louise Herreshoff had a career both in France and New England. She was from a prominent Rhode Island family, and was raised by... Read full biography
A painter in Fauve style of female figures, still lifes and landscapes, Louise Herreshoff had a career both in France and New England. She was from a prominent Rhode Island family, and was raised by her aunts in Providence after her mother's death. In 1890, accompanied by her art teacher and... Read full biography
A painter in Fauve style of female figures, still lifes and landscapes, Louise Herreshoff had a career both in France and New England. She was from a prominent Rhode Island family, and was raised by her aunts in Providence after her mother's death. In 1890, accompanied by her art teacher and friend, Mary C. Wheeler, with whom she had studied in Providence, Herreshoff began study in France at the Academy Julian as a student of Benjamin Constant and Jean Paul Laurens. Staying abroad until 1903,... Read full biography
A painter in Fauve style of female figures, still lifes and landscapes, Louise Herreshoff had a career both in France and New England. She was from a prominent Rhode Island family, and was raised by her aunts in Providence after her mother's death. In 1890, accompanied by her art teacher and friend, Mary C. Wheeler, with whom she had studied in Providence, Herreshoff began study in France at the Academy Julian as a student of Benjamin Constant and Jean Paul Laurens. Staying abroad until 1903, she also sketched and painted in Holland, Italy, Switzerland and the British Isles. She went back to Providence and painted in the environs of New England. With her bright palette and thickly applied unmodulated Fauve colors, she earned a reputation... Read full biography
A painter in Fauve style of female figures, still lifes and landscapes, Louise Herreshoff had a career both in France and New England. She was from a prominent Rhode Island family, and was raised by her aunts in Providence after her mother's death. In 1890, accompanied by her art teacher and friend, Mary C. Wheeler, with whom she had studied in Providence, Herreshoff began study in France at the Academy Julian as a student of Benjamin Constant and Jean Paul Laurens. Staying abroad until 1903, she also sketched and painted in Holland, Italy, Switzerland and the British Isles. She went back to Providence and painted in the environs of New England. With her bright palette and thickly applied unmodulated Fauve colors, she earned a reputation for being the most avant-garde painter in that region. In 1910, she married Charles E. Eaton. The marriage did not last long, bu... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (14)
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The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005
Davenport, Ray
2,421 pages
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century A Biographical Dictionary
1995
Heller, Jules and Nancy G. Heller
612 pages
American Art at the Nineteenth Century Paris Salons
1990
Fink, Lois Marie; Albert Boime, Forward; Elizabeth Broun, Preface
430 pages (color)
Art Across America: New England, New York, Mid-Atlantic (Volume One)
1990
Gerdts, William H
421 pages (color)
American Women Artists 1830-1930 (Exhibition catalog)
1987
Tufts, Eleanor (others)
256 pages (color)
Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers
1986
Opitz, Glenn B (editor)
1,081 pages
Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947
1985
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
707 pages
Dictionary of Women Artists: An International Dictionary of Women Artists Born Before 1900
1985
Petteys, Chris with Hazel Gustow, Ferris Olin and Verna Ritchie
851 pages
Dictionary of American Artists
1982
Opitz, Glenn
372 pages
American Women Artists from Early Times to the Present
1982
Rubinstein, Charlotte Streifer
560 pages (color)
Exhibition Record 1861-1900, National Academy of Design (Two Volumes Set) (Exhibition catalog)
1973
Naylor, Maria
1,075 pages
Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index