Jennie Wilde

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Jennie Wilde , b. Virginia Wilkinson Wilde (born April 10, 1865 in Augusta , Georgia , † September 11, 1913 in England ), was an American painter, designer and art teacher.

Life

Jennie Wilde was born in 1865 as the third child of language and mathematics professor William Cumming Wilde (1823-1890) and his wife Virginia Wilkinson Wilde (1827-1888) in the American city of Augusta. She came from a wealthy Catholic family of Irish origin. Her paternal grandfather was the politician and poet Richard Henry Wilde . Jennie Wilde's brother Richard Henry Wilde (1851–1881) was also a poet and author, her sister Emily Wilde (1859–1929) was an artist.

Jennie Wilde received her artistic training at the Southern Art Union (1882-1883; 1885), where she was a student of Henriette Winant. In 1886 she studied painting and antique drawing, among others with James Carroll Beckwith at the Art League of New York , of which she remained a member for life. She then worked as a teacher in New Orleans at the Southern Academic Institute (1889-1890; 1892), Home Institute (1893-1897) and Guillot Institute (1895).

In 1898 she opened her own studio on Camp Street, New Orleans, and later moved to Carondelet Street. She mainly worked as a designer for various local carnival clubs (from 1891), most recently for 10 years exclusively for the Mistick Krewe of Comus. Wilde also worked as a writer and poet. Her poems and illustrations have been published in local newspapers and literary magazines.

In 1913, Wilde fell ill while on vacation in England and died. At this point she was counted among the most important female artists in New Orleans. Her grave is in Metairie Cemetery, New Orleans.

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Moving van design King of Abyssinia (Jennie Wilde, 1910)

Above all, Wilde created practical art . For the organizers of Mardi Gras celebrations and parades, she designed a. a. the design of the invitation cards, costumes and floats.

All that has been preserved are her picture panels, designed with ink or watercolors, with designs for the moving van and balls for the Mistick Krewe of Comus association. Wilde created designs on the subjects of Demontology (1891), Stories of the Golden Age (1900), Flights of Fancy (1909) and Tales from Chaucer (1914). At the Mardi Gras celebrations in 1892, which took place under the motto Nippon, the Land of the Rising Sun , President's daughter Varina Anne Davis wore the costume designed by Wilde, a natural-colored kimono with gold floral embroidery, as the procession queen. An oil portrait of Davis in her costume and the accompanying scepter are on display in the Confederate Museum in New Orleans. Jennie Wilde's designs for 1910 season floats are in the Carnival Collection of the Howard-Tilton Memorial Library at Tulane University . The 20 watercolors (18.5 × 12 inch ) mainly take up aspects of the motto Mahomet (French for Mohammed ), e.g. B. Muhammad's wife Aisha , the buraq mount, and the hijra . A car motif shows the patron saint of the commissioning club, Komos , in a carriage made of banana plants drawn by swans.

In 1903 Wilde painted the murals of the Church of Notre Dame de Bon Secours on Jackson Avenue, New Orleans.

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 1889-1892; 1901: Artist's Association of New Orleans
  • 1892: Tulane University

literature

  • Wilde, Jennie. In: John A. Mahe, Rosanne McCaffrey: Encyclopaedia of New Orleans Artists 1718-1918 The Historic New Orleans Collection, New Orleans 1987, ISBN 0-917860-23-3 , p. 414.

Web links

Commons : Jennie Wilde  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Encyclopaedia of New Orleans Artists names "Measden", England, as the place of death, possibly a misspelling for Neasden in London
  2. ^ Henri Schindler: Mardi Gras Treasures: Invitations of the Golden Age. Pelican Publishing, Gretna 2000, p. 15.
  3. ↑ a b c Wilde, Jennie. In: Encyclopaedia of New Orleans Artists 1718-1918. 1987, p. 414.
  4. ↑ a b Jennie Wilde In: Mardi Gras Treasures - Costume Design of the Golden Age. Pelican Publishing, Gretna 2002, pp. 95-97.
  5. ↑ Carnival collection voyager.tcs.tulane.edu, accessed on 21 September 2016th
personal data
SURNAME Wilde, Jennie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wilde, Virginia Wilkinson (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American painter, designer and art teacher
DATE OF BIRTH April 10, 1865
PLACE OF BIRTH Augusta , Georgia
DATE OF DEATH September 11, 1913
Place of death England