Annie French
Annie French (1873–1965) was a Scottish painter, engraver, illustrator, and designer associated with the Glasgow School.
Biography[edit]
French was a student of Jean Delville and Fra Newbery at the Glasgow School of Art from 1896 to 1902.[1][2] She shared a studio with artist Bessie Young and fellow Glasgow School painter Jane Younger from 1906 to 1914.[1][3] She returned to the Glasgow School to teach ceramic decoration from 1909 to 1912.[1][2]
French was married to painter, engraver, and illustrator George Woolliscroft Rhead from 1914 until his death in 1920.[1][4]
Art[edit]
As a member of a group of designers and artists known as the Glasgow Girls,[5] French was best known for black-and-white illustrations in the Art Nouveau style.[2][6] Her influences included Aubrey Beardsley[7] and Charles Rennie Mackintosh.[5]
French's work was exhibited at the Royal Academy and published in The Studio.[2]
References[edit]
- ^ a b c d Gray, Sara (2009). French, Annie. The Dictionary of British Women Artists. Casemate Publishers. pp. 110–111. Retrieved 30 December 2015.
- ^ a b c d French, Annie. Benezit Dictionary of British Graphic Artists and Illustrators. 1. Oxford University Press. 21 June 2012. pp. 419–420. Retrieved 30 December 2015.
- ^ Franchini, Caterina (2015). "Women's Creativity at the International Exhibition of Modern Decorative Art (Turin, 1902)". Res Mobilis. Oviedo University Press. pp. 59–60. ISSN 2255-2057. Retrieved 30 December 2015.
- ^ Rhead, George Woolliscroft. Benezit Dictionary of British Graphic Artists and Illustrators. 1. Oxford University Press. 21 June 2012. p. 264. Retrieved 30 December 2015.
- ^ a b Billcliffe, Roger (April 1991). "A Brush With Europe: Visual Art in Glasgow 1890–1990". RSA Journal. 139 (5417): 334. JSTOR 41375520. (registration required (help)).
In a series of rooms designed by Mackintosh, the Four and their many Glasgow colleagues created a display which was unequalled by any other contributing country. Jessie King, E.A. Taylor, George Logan, Annie French, Ann Macbeth, De Courcy Lewthwaite Dewar, John Ednie, Jessie Newbery and a host of other talented Glasgow designers and craftsmen and women rightfully claimed the limelight.
- ^ Hardie, William (2010). Scottish Painting: 1837 to the present. Waverley Books. p. 121. ISBN 9781849340359.
- ^ Murdoch, W.G. Blaikie (December 1917). "British Illustrators". The American Magazine of Art. 9 (2): 54. JSTOR 23935248.
And it is [Aubrey Beardsley's] work in this lapidarian manner which has proved influential to Miss Jessie King and to Miss Annie French, whose craftsmanship, in various of her little pictures for old ballads, has a charm making every particle claim microscopic study.
- 1873 births
- 1965 deaths
- Scottish designers
- Scottish engravers
- Scottish illustrators
- Scottish women artists
- 19th-century Scottish painters
- 20th-century Scottish painters
- 19th-century women artists
- 20th-century women artists
- Glasgow School
- Alumni of the Glasgow School of Art
- Art Nouveau painters
- Women printmakers
- 20th-century British printmakers
