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This 1935 "untitled" oil portrait by Swedish-born American legendary Disney illustrator and animator Gustaf Adolf Tenggren likely depicts his wife Mollie Tenggren. She is the central focus, occupying most of the canvas. The young woman is pale-skinned with dark hair styled in an updo, secured by a thin, light-colored headband. Her expression is somewhat playful, yet reserved, with her head downturned to the side, but her gaze directly at us. She is elegantly dressed in a long, flowing teal gown, with a deep V-neck and sleeveless design, rendered with soft folds and drape. Her posture is relaxed yet poised; her hands rest gently near the bottom of her gown. Beside the woman stands a dark metallic ewer with a bulbous body and curved handle holding a bouquet of bright, light yellow flowers with distinct bell shapes. The flowers provide a striking contrast to the somber tones of a mottled purple-gray background and the woman's dress. Tenggren was Influenced by Scandinavian folklore and Arthur Rackham's style, he moved to the U.S. in 1920, working for companies like Milton Bradley. From 1935 (the year of this portrait) to 1940, Tenggren's job at Disney was to create inspirational illustrations for movies. He was on the Snow White project for three years and his paintings had a major influence on the interior of the dwarfs’ cottage, queen’s laboratory, and the scenes in the woods where Snow White flees a hunter. Tenggren created each of the seven dwarfs and gave each dwarf his own personality matching his name. After that, he worked on Pinocchio and Fantasia. After leaving Disney in 1940, he pursued a prolific career illustrating Golden Books and other children's literature, returning to a style reminiscent of his Scandinavian roots in his later years. During his 20 years with Golden Books, he illustrated 28 best-selling children's books including The Pokey Little Puppy and The Tawny Scrawny Lion.
Untitled (possibly Portrait of Mollie Tenggren) by Gustaf Tenggren (Swedish American) - Oil on canvas / 1935 - Weisman Art Museum (Minneapolis, Minnesota) #WomenInArt #PortraitofaWoman #art #artText #artwork #GustafTenggren #Tenggren #SwedishArtist #BlueskyArt #OilPainting #1930s #WeismanArtMuseum
American modernist painter Alfred Henry Maurer is a classic tale of a talented artist that was under appreciated while alive. In this oil painting, completed a few years before he took his own life, we see Maurer’s skill at layering and visible brushstrokes to create a textured surface capturing a subject's character and inner self. A young woman's head is turned slightly turned towards us, with her gaze directed off to our right. The positioning and overlapping brushstrokes in the portrait emphasize the stylized three-dimensional form of the unidentified lady. Her features are expressive, with large black eyes and an elongated face and neck. Her full lips and rosy cheeks are the only hints of rouge in a composition full of greens and earth tones. Her hair is depicted with visible brushstrokes and varying shades of brown and gold. Her attire is suggested by dark green paint forming a simple shallow bowl-neck dress. Maurer was born in New York City, the son of German-born Louis Maurer, a lithographer with a pronounced disdain for modern art. At 16, Maurer quit school to work at his father's lithographic firm. In 1897, after studying with the sculptor John Quincy Adams Ward and painter William Merritt Chase, Maurer left for Paris, where he stayed the next 4 years, joining a circle of American and French artists. Finding the instruction at the Academie Julian too limited, he spent much of his time copying art in the Louvre museum. He achieved notable awards and honors, yet, at age 36, in Paris, deviating from what everyone (including himself, at times) called "acceptable" painting styles, Maurer changed his methods sharply and, from that point on, painted only in a cubist and fauvist manner. His break from realism and his new commitment to modernism, fostered by exposure to the art collected by his friends Gertrude and Leo Stein, subsequently cost him any hope of paternal regard and his international reputation … until after his passing in 1932 until today.
“Woman with Blue Dress” by Alfred Maurer (American) - Oil on gesso on composition board / 1927-1928 - Weisman Art Museum (Minneapolis, Minnesota) #WomenInArt #art #ArtText #artwork #AlfredMaurer #AlfredHenryMaurer #oilpainting #womensart #WeismanArtMuseum #PortraitofaWoman #ModernArt #artoftheday
A young woman, presumably a mother, with short curly black hair and downcast gaze carries a silver tray with a carafe of red wine and plate of fresh-cut fruit. She wears a multi-blue patterned top with short sleeve and shimmering white trim plus a matching white-tinted skirt. An expensive-looking silver-white patterned towel is draped over her right forearm. Louis Ritman immigrated to the USA as a child with his family from their native Kamenets-Podolsky, Ukraine, to settle in Chicago. Working as a sign painter to support his impoverished family, the young Ritman began his art training with a drawing class at Hull-House; he then attended the Art Institute of Chicago, the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts (founded in 1902), and briefly the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia. Ritman began participating in the Art Institute’s annual exhibitions in 1907 and soon was receiving commissions for portraits before heading to Paris in 1909 for further training at the École des Beaux-Arts. In 1910, along with expatriate artist Richard Miller, Ritman made his first visit to the colony of impressionist painters in the Normandy village of Giverny. Except for a brief hiatus just after the outbreak of World War I, he would paint there almost every summer through 1928, while maintaining a winter studio in Paris and returning frequently to the United States. He moved back to Chicago in 1929 but continued to visit France. In 1930 he began a long career as a teacher of figure and portrait painting at the Art Institute of Chicago.
The Young Mother by Louis Ritman (American) - Oil on canvas / c. 1933 - Weisman Art Museum (Minneapolis, Minnesota) #womeninart #louisritman #oilpainting #americanartist #fineart #weismanartmuseum #art #youngmother #artwork #weisman #umn #womensart #artoftheday #bskyart #mother #artbsky #ritman
A large woman is seen with exaggerated arms snd legs, but small head wearing a yellow, white, red, and blue top. With both hands she feeds a dog jumping to get the food. The style of the painting is far from realism.
Gypsy Woman Feeding Dogs by Earl F “Buddy” Potvin (American) - Gouache, ink, graphite and watercolor on wallpaper on cardboard / 1950 - Weisman Art Museum (Minneapolis, Minnesota) #womeninart #painting #art #potvin #americanart #weismanartmuseum #artwork #artoftheday #bsky.art #bskyart #contemporary
A dimensional piece by Structurist artist Charles Biederman. A series of stacked tiles spiral out in a semi-symmetric radial pattern on a sunny yellowish orange background. Biederman colors the tiles in bright reds, greenish yellows, vivid greens, and both brilliant and deep blues. The tiles cast shadows which lend a sense of movement and dynamism to the composition.
“No. 1, Michel”, 1986 - 90
Charles Biederman (1906 - 2004)
Painted aluminum
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