Gwen John
Gwen John is now acknowledged to be one of the preeminent British artists of the 20th century. Since her own lifetime, her work has been deeply admired and seriously collected in Britain and America, and she is represented in numerous public collections in both places. Among those museums are the Tate Gallery, London; the National Museum of Wales, Cardiff; the City of Manchester Art Galleries; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; the British Art Center, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut; and the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Born in 1876 and raised in Wales, in 1895 Gwen John joined her brother Augustus at the Slade School in London, where she studied with Henry Tonks and Frederick Brown in 1898. She then spent some months in Paris at the Académie Carmen, where James McNeill Whistler taught, before returning to London and a “subterranean life.” In 1904, she went back to France where she was to remain until her death 35 years later.
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