Mary-Russell Ferrell Colton
Mary-Russell Ferrell Colton (born March 25, 1889 in Louisville , Kentucky , † July 26, 1971 in Phoenix , Arizona ) was an American painter, ethnographer , curator and author.
Live and act
Mary-Russell Ferrell was born in Kentucky to Joseph and Elise (nee Houston) Ferrell. In 1904, at the age of 15, she enrolled in the Philadelphia School of Design for Women , from which she graduated with honor in 1909. Then she opened a private art studio in Philadelphia , with art restoration and art trading in the foreground. As a member of the women's artist group Philadelphia Ten , which existed between 1917 and 1945, she exhibited annually in Florida, the Midwest, the American eastern states and also Europe.
On May 23, 1912, she married University of Pennsylvania professor of zoology, Harold Sellers Colton, with whom she had two sons. In April 1926 the family moved to Flagstaff , Arizona . Here she had the opportunity for the first time to paint the landscape of the Colorado Plateau and to develop her own style of mood painting, which in the future contained recognizable features in color design from the relationship between the earth and the atmospheric colors of the sky. She created landscapes , still lifes and illustrations with people who have genre characters.
In 1928 she founded the Museum of Northern Arizona with Harold S. Colton and from then on supported the indigenous peoples and their arts and handicrafts in words and pictures , whereby she also worked with indigenous artists. She was the museum's curator for over 20 years, during which time she documented the history of the Colorado Plateau. She wrote two books and numerous articles about it.
Her awards include induction into the Arizona Women's Hall of Fame .
Paintings (selection)
- Church at Ranchos de Taos (around 1913/1914). Technique: watercolor on paper. Size: 21 ¾ × 27 ¾ inches . Location: Museum of Northern Arizona Fine Arts Collection. Inventory number: C867
- Walpi (around 1914). Technique: oil on canvas. Size: 36 × 52 inches. Location: Museum of Northern Arizona Fine Arts Collection. Inventory number: C870A
- Navajo Shepardess (around 1916). Technique: oil on canvas. Size: 36 × 26 inches. Location: Museum of Northern Arizona Fine Arts Collection. Inventory number: C869
- Sunset and Moonglow (around 1917). Technique: oil on canvas
- Lonesome Hole. Valley of the Little Colorado (around 1929). Technique: oil on canvas. Size: 36 × 36 inches.
- Edmund Nequatewa (around 1942). Technique: oil on canvas. Size: 31 ¾ × 42 inches. Location: Museum of Northern Arizona Fine Arts Collection. Inventory number: C872
- Sedona From Red Ledge (around 1952). Technique: oil on canvas. Size: 18 ½ × 25 inches.
- Sunset on a Lava Field (around 1928). Technique: oil on canvas. Size: 24 × 30 inches.
Fonts
- Hopi Dyes. Museum of Northern Arizona, Flagstaff 1965.
- with Harold Sellers: Petroglyphs, the record of a great adventure. In: American Anthropologist , Washington DC 1931.
- with Nonabah Gorman Bryan, Stella Young: Navajo and Hopi Dyes. Historic Indian Publishers, Salt Lake City, Utah 1965, ISBN 978-1-883736-08-8 .
- Art for the schools of the Southwest. An outline for the public and Indian schools. In: Arizona, Northern Arizona Society of Science and Art: Museum Bulletin , No. 6, Flagstaff, 1934.
- with Edmund Nequatewa: Truth of a Hopi and other clan stories of Shung-Opovi. Museum of Northern Arizona. No. 8, Flagstaff, Arizona, Northern Arizona Society of Science and Art, 1947.
- Hopi silversmithing, its background and future. In: Plateau , Vol. 12, No. 1, Flagstaff, Arizona, Northern Arizona Society of Science and Art, 1939.
- Letter to the Editor. In: Coconino Sun , August 12, 1927.
- with Harold Sellers: The Little Known Small House Ruins in the Coconino Forest. (= Memoirs of the American Anthropological Association ; Vol. 5). American Anthropological Association, Lancaster, Pennsylvania 1918.
- Technique of Major Hopi Crafts. In: Museum Notes. Vol. 3, No. 12. Flagstaff, Arizona, Museum of Northern Arizona, 1931.
literature
- William James Burns: We Must Grow Our Own Artists: Mary-Russell Ferrell Colton, Northern Arizona's Early Art Educator. Dissertation, Georgia State University, 2010. In: Department of Educational Policy Studies, Educational Policy Studies Dissertations.
- K. Richard, Sherry G. Mangum: One woman's West: the life of Mary-Russell Ferrell Colton. Northland Pub., C. 1997.
Web links
- History of Philadelphia Ten
- Arizona Women's Heritage Trail
- Mary and Harold Colton, Founders of the Museum of Northern Arizona. , KBAQ: Hearing the Century
Individual evidence
- ^ Hundred years, the Arizona State Library. ( Memento of the original from December 27, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved February 4, 2017.
- ↑ a b c d e f g list of works by Mary-Russell Ferrell Colton on the website of the Museum of Northern Arizona
- ↑ The Emporia Gazette , Kansas, June 25, 1923, p. 4 at newspapers.com
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Colton, Mary-Russell Ferrell |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ferrell, Mary-Russell |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American painter, ethnographer, curator and author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 25, 1889 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Louisville , Kentucky |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 26, 1971 |
| Place of death | Phoenix , Arizona |