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Winnifred Hudson
Winnifred Hudson (1905–1996) was a British-born painter who lived most of her life in Hawaii. She was born in Sunderland, England on May 21, 1905. At the age of six, she moved with her family to Alberta, Canada, where she grew up. In 1932, she came to Hawaii on a vacation and liked it so much that she moved to Honolulu in 1934.Advertiser staff, "Painter Winnifred Hudson dies, ''Honolulu Advertiser'', June 20, 1996, p. 6 Hudson worked as a secretary and took courses at the Honolulu Academy of Arts. At age 60, she quit her job to become a full-time artist. In 1995, at age 90, she left Hawaii to live near her family in California.Cox, Meki, "Three decades of art in the abstract come to an end", ''Honolulu Advertiser'', July 14, 1995, pp. C1-C3 She died in Davis, California on May 10, 1996. Although also making prints and collages, Hudson is best known for her hard-edge abstract paintings with a tenuous relationship to nature.Rose, Joan, "Bidding a fond farewell", ''Honolulu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Plant Life And Light By Winnifred Hudson
Plants are predominantly photosynthetic eukaryotes of the kingdom Plantae. Historically, the plant kingdom encompassed all living things that were not animals, and included algae and fungi; however, all current definitions of Plantae exclude the fungi and some algae, as well as the prokaryotes (the archaea and bacteria). By one definition, plants form the clade Viridiplantae (Latin name for "green plants") which is sister of the Glaucophyta, and consists of the green algae and Embryophyta (land plants). The latter includes the flowering plants, conifers and other gymnosperms, ferns and their allies, hornworts, liverworts, and mosses. Most plants are multicellular organisms. Green plants obtain most of their energy from sunlight via photosynthesis by primary chloroplasts that are derived from endosymbiosis with cyanobacteria. Their chloroplasts contain chlorophylls a and b, which gives them their green color. Some plants are parasitic or mycotrophic and have lost the ability t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
