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Cod cyfeirnod
Teitl
Dyddiad(au)
- 1930, 1980 / (Creation)
Lefel y disgrifiad
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Maint a chyfrwng
4 ff.
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Hanes bywgraffyddol
Gwendolen Mary (Gwen) John (1876-1939), painter, was born in Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire. She was the sister of fellow artist Augustus John (1878-1961). Between 1895 and 1898 she was a pupil at the Slade School of Fine Art in London, alongside her brother. During her time there she befriended other female artists including Ursula Tyrwhitt and Ida Nettleship, who later married Augustus. She studied at the Academie Carmen in Paris in 1898 and settled permanently in Paris from 1904. In the same year she met, and began a stormy relationship with, the sculptor Auguste Rodin. She was introduced by Augustus to the American lawyer and collector John Quinn and his companion Jeanne Robert Foster. Amongst her circle of friends was the revolutionary, feminist and actress Maud Gonne and Dorelia McNeill, who became Augustus's lifelong companion. In her later years she formed an attachment to the Russian-Jewish émigré Véra Oumançoff, who lived near her in the Paris suburb of Meudon. The majority of her paintings were of women or girls and, from 1913 when she was received into the Catholic church, ecclesiastically-themed works. She was exhibited in Paris, London and New York. It is believed that she ceased to produce any works of art after about 1933. Gwen John died in Dieppe, France, in 1939.
Her nephew Edwin John (1905-1978), son of Augustus, was the chief executor of her will. Following John's death her artistic reputation was revived by numerous exhibitions both in Britain and the United States, beginning with the memorial exhibition at the Matthiesen Gallery, London, in 1946.
Hanes archifol
Ffynhonnell
Mr Napier Collyns (son of Rachel Collyns); London; Purchase; October 2004; 0200410963.
Ardal cynnwys a strwythur
Natur a chynnwys
Letter, 14 June 1930, from Gwen John, Meudon, to fellow artist [Mary] Constance [Lloyd], concerning Ursula Tyrwhitt and her recent indiscretions (f. 20).
Also included are three letters, June-August 1980, from art historian Cecily Langdale, New York, to Mrs Rachel Collyns, Bristol, niece of Mary Constance Lloyd, relating to Gwen John (ff. 21-23), and supplying background information on John's letter and on Tyrwhitt (f. 23).
Gwerthuso, dinistrio ac amserlennu
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Arranged chronologically at NLW.
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Amodau rheoli mynediad
Amodau rheoli atgynhyrchu
Usual copyright laws apply. Information regarding ownership of Gwen John copyright can be found at http://tyler.hrc.utexas.edu/ (viewed February 2011).
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Nodiadau iaith a sgript
English.
Cyflwr ac anghenion technegol
Cymhorthion chwilio
Ardal deunyddiau perthynol
Bodolaeth a lleoliad y gwreiddiol
Bodolaeth a lleoliad copïau
Unedau o ddisgrifiad cysylltiedig
Ardal nodiadau
Nodiadau
Title based on contents.
Nodiadau
Preferred citation: NLW MS 23925E, ff. 20-23.
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Pwyntiau mynediad
Pwyntiau mynediad pwnc
Pwyntiau mynediad lleoedd
Pwyntiau mynediad Enw
- John, Gwen, 1876-1939 -- Correspondence (Pwnc)
- Langdale, Cecily -- Correspondence. (Pwnc)
- Lloyd, Mary Constance (Pwnc)
- Langdale, Cecily. (Pwnc)
- Collyns, Rachel C. (Pwnc)
- Tyrwhitt, Ursula, 1872-1966 (Pwnc)