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Jessie Beard Rickly
Jessie Beard Rickly (1895-1975) was an American artist and co founder of the Ste. Genevieve Art Colony. Biography Rickly née Beard was born on October 5, 1895, in Poplar Bluff, Missouri. She attended the St. Louis School of Fine Arts where her teachers included Oscar E. Berninghaus and Edmund H. Wuerpel. There she first met fellow artist Aimee Schweig. Rickly also studied at Harvard University. She was married to Francis Rickly. In the 1920s Rickly attended plein air painting classes at the Provincetown art colony, taught by Charles Webster Hawthorne. In the early 1930s, during the Great Depression and after the closing of Provincetown art colony, Rickly along with Aimee Schweig and Bernard E. Peters established the Ste. Genevieve Art Colony in Ste. Genevieve, Missouri. In 1935 Rickly broke ties with the art colony. Rickly went on to organize the group of artists known as ''The New Hats'' which advocated for Regionalism (art), Regionalism and other contemporary art. She was a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Regionalism
American Regionalism is an American realist modern art movement that included paintings, murals, lithographs, and illustrations depicting realistic scenes of rural and small-town America primarily in the Midwest. It arose in the 1930s as a response to the Great Depression, and ended in the 1940s due to the end of World War II and a lack of development within the movement. It reached its height of popularity from 1930 to 1935, as it was widely appreciated for its reassuring images of the American heartland during the Great Depression. Despite major stylistic differences between specific artists, Regionalist art in general was in a relatively conservative and traditionalist style that appealed to popular American sensibilities, while strictly opposing the perceived domination of French art. Rise Before World War II, the concept of Modernism was not clearly defined in the context of American art. There was also a struggle to define a uniquely American type of art. On the path to det ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
