Related Research Articles
Ste. Genevieve is a city in Ste. Genevieve Township and is the county seat of Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri, United States. The population was 4,999 at the 2020 census. Founded in 1735 by French Canadian colonists and settlers from east of the river, it was the first organized European settlement west of the Mississippi River in present-day Missouri. Today, it is home to Ste. Genevieve National Historical Park, the 422nd unit of the National Park Service.
Thomas Hart Benton was an American painter, muralist, and printmaker. Along with Grant Wood and John Steuart Curry, he was at the forefront of the Regionalist art movement. The fluid, sculpted figures in his paintings showed everyday people in scenes of life in the United States.
Marguerite Munger Peet (1903–1995) was an American painter. She did not have a far-reaching artistic reputation during her lifetime as she did not often exhibit her work in public. Her family found over 430 of her paintings after her death, and she has been the subject of three major retrospectives in the last 15 years. Her most significant work was created under the tutelage of famed American Regionalist painter Thomas Hart Benton.
The Felix Vallé House State Historic Site is a state-owned historic preserve comprising the Felix Vallé House and other early 19th-century buildings in Ste. Genevieve, Missouri. It is managed by the Missouri Department of Natural Resources.
Joseph John Jones (1909–1963) was an American painter, landscape painter, lithographer, and muralist. Time magazine followed him throughout his career. Jones was associated with the John Reed Club and his name is closely associated with its artistic members, most of them also contributors to the New Masses magazine.
Missouri French or Illinois Country French also known as français vincennois, français Cahok, and nicknamed "Paw-Paw French" often by individuals outside the community but not exclusively, is a variety of the French language spoken in the upper Mississippi River Valley in the Midwestern United States, particularly in eastern Missouri.
Martyl Suzanne Schweig Langsdorf was an American artist who created the Doomsday Clock image for the June 1947 cover of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.
Joseph Paul Vorst was a German-American visual artist.
Miriam McKinnie also known as Miriam McKinnie Hofmeier, was an American artist.
Frederick Conway (1900–1973) was an American painter and muralist.
Aimee Gladstone Schweig (1892–1987) was an American artist known as one of the founders of the Ste. Genevieve Art Colony. Her paintings depict primarily local subjects from the Ste. Genevieve and other Missouri areas.
James Duard Marshall was a painter, lithographer, museum director, and art conservator who lived most of his life in Kansas City. Duard [pronounced "doo-erd"] was a student of Thomas Hart Benton and is best known for his 30-foot mural created for the centennial of Neosho, Missouri in 1939. The civic leaders of Neosho had approached Benton to produce the mural, as Benton had been born in Neosho, but he suggested that his student Marshall do the job. That mural hangs in the Neosho Newton County Library.
Jack Edward Barber was an American artist working in oil, egg tempera, acrylics, watercolor, lithography, and sculpture.
Joseph Meert was an American artist who created three New Deal post office murals.
Jessie Beard Rickly (1895-1975) was an American artist and co founder of the Ste. Genevieve Art Colony.
Bernard E. Peters (1893-1949) was an American artist and co founder of the Ste. Genevieve Art Colony.
E. Oscar Thalinger (1885-1965) was an American artist originally associated with the American regionalist style. In his later career, he painted in an abstract style.
Matthew E. Ziegler (1897–1981) was an American artist associated with the American regionalist style. He painted the New Deal mural Wheat in the Shock in the Flandreau, South Dakota, post office. It was commissioned by the United States Department of the Treasury.
Jessie Housley Holliman was an African-American educator, muralist, printmaker, and commercial artist active in St. Louis, Missouri from 1929 until 1949.
Cassiana Marie Vogt, born Martha Vogt and best known as Sister Cassiana Marie, was a Catholic nun and oil painter who was a member of the Ste. Genevieve Art Colony.
References
- 1 2 3 Danielsen, Aarik. "Small Ste. Genevieve colony shaped an entire country's view of the Midwest". Columbia Daily Tribune. Retrieved September 12, 2022.
- ↑ Dick, R. H.; Kerr, Scott (2004). An American art colony : the art and artists of Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, 1930-1940. St. Louis, Mo.: McCaughen & Burr Press. pp. 19–26. ISBN 978-0976242406.
- ↑ St Louis Sage (December 16, 2021). "What was the Ste. Genevieve art colony?". St. Louis Magazine. Retrieved September 13, 2022.
- ↑ "The Ste. Genevieve Art Colony". St. Louis Mercantile Library. Retrieved September 13, 2022.
- ↑ Dick, R. H.; Kerr, Scott (2004). An American art colony : the art and artists of Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, 1930-1940. St. Louis, Mo.: McCaughen & Burr Press. p. 31. ISBN 978-0976242406.
- 1 2 "Ste. Genevieve Art Colony". Missouri Remembers. Retrieved September 6, 2022.
- ↑ Gerard, Gregory Thomas. "Saint Genevieve Art Colony, 1930-1940". Color & Light. Retrieved September 12, 2022.