03309nam 2200529 450 991081389430332120200626165641.00-8195-7875-4(CKB)4100000010135563(MiAaPQ)EBC6033292(MiAaPQ)EBC30591699(Au-PeEL)EBL30591699(EXLCZ)99410000001013556320200317d2019 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierForever seeing new beauties the forgotten impressionist Mary Rogers Williams, 1857-1907 /Eve M. Kahn1st ed.Middletown, Connecticut :Wesleyan University Press,[2019]©20191 online resource (273 pages color illustrations)Garnet books.Driftless Connecticut series.0-8195-7874-6 Includes bibliographical references and index.Cover -- Forever Seeing New Beauties -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Introduction: The Funny Way I Stumbled upon Her -- Notes on Methodology -- 1 Why She Matters -- 2 A Cosmopolitan Emerges -- 3 No Salvation but by Hard Work -- 4 Conveying the Rudiments of Art -- 5 Art, Her Boss's Jealous Mistress -- 6 A Rare Dear Overseas -- 7 Wholly in Pale Tints -- 8 He Certainly Is Unregenerate -- 9 Strange and Beautiful Things -- 10 Misfit in This Workaday World -- 11 A Pastel Every Five Minutes -- 12 To Exhibit in the Provincial Towns -- 13 My Own Femme de Ménage -- 14 The Most Magic House in the World -- 15 Crisp and Free in Treatment -- 16 A Serene and Confident Air -- 17 I'd Like to Run Away -- 18 Old Friends and Some New Ones -- 19 I Feel Like Thirty Cents -- 20 Light So Exquisite -- 21 Nervous Energy Spent Teaching -- 22 Out of the Harness -- 23 Pangs of Loneliness -- 24 A Peaceful Comfortable Feeling -- 25 Wild to Go Out on a Comet Hunt -- 26 How Hard It Is for My Sisters -- 27 Exquisite and Unerring Artistic Taste -- 28 Logical Custodians in Chaotic Days -- 29 The Resurrectionists -- Acknowledgments -- Appendix -- Notes -- Index -- About the Author."Mary Rogers Williams was born and raised in Hartford, Connecticut. She taught art at Smith College and travelled extensively through Europe and Scandinavia. Her work was shown in New York, Boston, and Paris; critics of the day didn't know what to make of her "poetic sensibility" and "shadowy quality". The book includes color reproductions and illustrations. About the author: Eve M. Kahn is a freelance writer specializing in architecture, design and preservation, and was Antiques Columnist at The New York Times, 2008-2016"--Provided by publisherGarnet books.Driftless Connecticut series.PaintersConnecticutBiographyImpressionist artistsConnecticutBiographyConnecticutfastPaintersImpressionist artists759Kahn Eve1683975MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQCaOLUBOOK9910813894303321Forever seeing new beauties4055156UNINA