Genevieve Springston Lynch (1891–1960), also known as Gene Lynch, was an American painter and art teacher who taught and worked in Hawaii.
Background
Genevieve Springston was born in
Forest Grove, Oregon on September 20, 1891. She studied art at the
Pratt Institute
Pratt Institute is a private university with its main campus in Brooklyn, New York (state), New York. It has a satellite campus in Manhattan and an extension campus in Utica, New York at the Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute. The school was ...
in New York and at an art school in Chicago. She taught art at
Punahou School
Punahou School (known as Oahu College until 1934) is a private, co-educational, college preparatory school in Honolulu, Hawaii. More than 3,700 students attend the school from kindergarten through twelfth grade, 12th grade. Protestant missionar ...
, a private school in Honolulu, both before and following her marriage to L. L. Lynch, an executive with Lewers & Cooke, Ltd.
[Forbes, David W., ''Encounters with Paradise: Views of Hawaii and its People, 1778-1941'', Honolulu Academy of Arts, 1992, p. 253][Peter Hastings Falk. (1999). ''Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975'' p. 2089.]
Career
Lynch was invited to have a solo show in Paris in 1935. Because of prejudice against female artists, she shortened her professional name and signature to "Gene Lynch".
She exhibited in the 1939
Society of Independent Artists show.
[Clark S. Marlor. ''The Society of Independent Artists: the exhibition record 1917-1944''. Noyes Press; 1984. . p. 371.] When Genevieve and her husband retired, they moved to
Palo Alto, California
Palo Alto (; Spanish language, Spanish for "tall stick") is a charter city in the northwestern corner of Santa Clara County, California, United States, in the San Francisco Bay Area, named after a Sequoia sempervirens, coastal redwood tree kno ...
, where she continued to paint until her death in 1960.
She is considered to be one of the notable artists of Hawaii that created "distinctly Hawaiian" art, while also using western approaches or materials.
Genevieve Springston Lynch is best known for her stylized paintings of exotic plants, such as ''Cup-and-Saucer Flowers'' in the collection of the
Honolulu Museum of Art.
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American women painters
Artists from Hawaii
1891 births
1960 deaths
Painters from Oregon
20th-century American painters
20th-century American women artists