Katherine Keenum

Jun 25, 2017 5:52 AM EDT

Titcomb was an exquisite painter. How typical that one of her works sold for $120,000 in 2011, so many decades after her death. As you mentioned there are artists, writers and others in the arts that don't receive their due in their lifetimes no matter the gender.

- Patricia Franzino

Jun 18, 2017 6:18 AM EDT

The detail is astounding. The depth perception draws the viewer into the room. It has the feel of a photograph. Both father and daughter are great draftsman to produce the feeling of exploring and walking around these rooms.

- Patricia Franzino

Jun 18, 2017 9:06 AM EDT

Exactly right about the depth perception and drafting! She caught the textures of different materials, too, didn't she? It's a room to explore.

- Katherine Keenum

Apr 13, 2017 6:21 AM EDT

These paintings look like greetings cards, especially, "Ewes Watching Shooting Stars". I immediately saw a Christmas card or note card that someone could use for any purpose. Some look surreal and very beautiful. They are spiritual paintings, which are always deceptively simple. It gives a feeling of calmness and clarity of mind. Thanks for posting the works of this artist.

- Patricia Franzino

Mar 09, 2017 4:09 AM EST

I wonder what the relationship was between mother and daughter. This artist is so self-assured and a believer in women's suffrage. Her "The Prodigal's Return" is the only painting of its kind I've seen with a female prodigal. No man would ever have the courage to mess around with the biblical story in such a way. She was a great feminist painter as well as representing women in the household in what is sometimes the only place they have power over their lives in our era and in the past.

"The Old Poacher" is astounding in its detail and the reactions of the other people around him, and his exhausted expression. Her more simple painting of a fishing village is moving with the isolated woman holding her baby.

Thanks, Katherine, for posting this lovely blog.

- Patricia Franzino

Mar 10, 2017 4:14 AM EST

Pat, you are so right. Clacy's painting of a woman reclining outdoors while she reads is believed to be a portrait of her mother. I like to this they were very close and also quite free-spirited! Katherine

- Katherine Keenum

Nov 14, 2020 8:05 AM EST

Beware, the watercolor of a room in the Cluny is not painted by Ernest Guilliaud (1882) but by Georges Quilliard https://www.photo.rmn.fr/archive/03-005209-2C6NU04U6BTX.html

- Cl

Nov 14, 2020 9:29 AM EST

Thanks to Cl for the correction. I have added it to the original post as well. Glad to know that someone is monitoring the blog so many years later!

- Katherine

Feb 09, 2017 5:36 AM EST

"A Day of Celebration" is not what I expected. It was so subtle and lovely. The light and space of the room with sparse furniture in white wood was so soothing and peaceful. Nothing was in that room that was unnecessary. The young girls looked like the celebration was for something personal for them. The leaves around the table seemed like something a child would use as decoration.

I wonder what kind of "force" was used to stop this woman from painting. Maybe it was family and society in Sweden.

- Patricia Franzino

Feb 13, 2017 3:59 AM EST

I agree entirely with your comments on "A Day of Celebration"! As for what prevented women in Scandinavia, France, England, and America from practicing their art after marriage, it was indeed social pressure. It was considered unladylike and they had enough trouble selling their work as single women! We may have a long way to go, but we can be thankful for the strides our grandmothers made for us. Thanks as always for your comments.

- Katherine Keenum