Wilhelmina Weber Furlong

Wilhelmina Weber Furlong (born November 24, 1878 in St. Louis , USA; † May 25, 1962 in Glens Falls , USA) was a German-American artist and teacher.

Wilhelmina Weber Furlong in Paris in 1898

Among the earliest avant-garde elite modernist painters, Weber Furlong was one of the most important American painters, pioneering modern Impressionist and modern expressionist still lifes at the turn of the American modernist movement in the 20th century.

She is called the first female modernist painter in the early American modernism scene. She represents the endeavors of many female artists in the late 1800s and early 1900s as she was hostile by the many realists who opposed the American modernist movement and serious female artists.

biography

From 1892 Emil Carlsen, William Merritt Chase and Edmund H. Wuerpel were among her teachers. She took part in the Paris Autumn Salon for three years and met Pablo Picasso , Paul Cézanne and others who exhibited at the Salon de Paris . She painted in the American modernist movement from 1892 to 1962 and was part of the modernist movement in St. Louis , New York City and Paris from 1897 to 1906 . She painted in Mexico City from 1906 to 1913 and again in New York City from 1913 to 1947. She was also active during the formative years of the modernist movement in New York City and Wilhelmina Weber Furlong's famous 1913 Manhattan studio exhibition was highlighted in her biography. She painted from 1921 to 1960 in Bolton Landing , New York in her modern art artist colony , Golden Heart Farm, and from 1952 to 1962 in Glens Falls , New York.

Her important circle of friends and acquaintances in America included John Graham , Willem de Kooning , David Smith , Dorothy Dehner , Jean Charlot , Edward Hopper , Alexander Calder , Rockwell and Sally Kent , Thomas Hart Benton , Allen Tucker , Max Weber , Kimon Nicolaidies and many other. As a student, she was a young woman in the Art Students League New York before 1910 . In 1913 she began her important role in the New Yoerker art scene as treasurer of the Art Students League and member of the executive committee together with her husband, the artist Thomas Furlong . She taught art in New York for over 56 years and was active during the formative years of the Whitney Studio Club in New York City, according to the Studio Club archives.

Appreciation

Weber Furlong's close relationship with the sculptor David Smith in Bolton Landing, New York, has had a lasting impact on the hamlet to this day. It is thanks to her that he came to the farm that he bought together with his wife, the sculptor and painter Dorothy Dehner. Weber Furlong's work is on permanent display at the Bolton Landing Museum.

The Hyde Collection in Glens Falls, New York has shown the work of Wilhelmina Weber Furlong since 1966, after showing a large individual retrospective of her artist's life after her death in 1962. The Tang Museum at Skidmore College has a work by Weber Furlong that has been on display locally since 1952. In the early 1950s Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, New York held solo exhibitions of Weber Furlong's work for several years, and she exhibited with artist David Smith at State Capital in Albany New York. The Ft. Edward Art Center hosted a solo exhibition in May 1994. From the end of September 2012 to the beginning of April 2013, the International Woman's Foundation in Marfa (Texas) showed a main retrospective of works by Weber Furlong with over 75 unknown works and private objects by the artist including her Victorian easel. The one-woman show was shown in the iconic Building 98 studio galleries, including an hour-long lecture by Professor Emeritus James K. Kettlewell, former curator of the Hyde Collection.

In spring 2012, Wilhelmina Weber Furlong was the subject of a documentary based on the biography of the well-known early American modernist. Permanent exhibitions of the work of Wilhelmina Weber Furlong are in the Hyde Collection in Glens Falls, New York and in the City Museum of Bolton Landing , New York.

On August 7, 2012, the Crandall Public Library in Glens Falls , New York hosted a documentary film crew and a lecture on Wilhelmina Weber Furlong by James K. Kettlewell, Professor Emeritus at Skidmore College, former curator of the Hyde Collection, where one of the lost works of Wilhelmina Weber Furlong was shown.

New York State plaque on Glens Falls City Hall , New York

On July 23, 2013, the New York Common Council of the City of Glens Falls decided to install a New York State plaque in the center of Glens Falls near City Hall. The board reads: “ Weber Furlong (1878–1962) One of America's great and influential artists of the twentieth century, Weber Furlong was among the first to champion the Modern art movement. The final years of her life were spent in Glens Falls, where she lived and taught near this site at her Ridge Street studio until her death in 1962. Placed for the Warren County Bicentennial . ”(German:“ Weber Furlong (1878–1962). One of America's greatest and most influential artists of the 20th century, Weber Furlong, was among the first to master the modern art movement. She spent the last years of her life in Glens Falls, where she lived and taught in her Ridge Street studio until her death in 1962. Appropriated for the Warren County Bicentennial. ")

literature

• Clint B. Weber: The treasured collection of Golden Heart Farm: A biography of Wilhelmina Weber Furlong (1878–1962) . with a foreword by James K. Kettlewell. 1st edition. The Weber Furlong Publishing Company, Marfa (Texas) 2012, ISBN 978-0-9851601-0-4 .
• Clint B. Weber: Weber Furlong Retrospective . Weber Furlong Publishing Company, Marfa (Texas) 2013, ISBN 978-0-9851601-1-1 .

Web links

• The Weber Furlong Foundation. In: Weber Furlong Collection of Modern Art. Accessed August 2, 2016 . 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k} Weber 2012
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Professor Emeritus James K. Kettlewell In: Weber 2012
3. ↑ Weber 2013
4. ↑ About Weber Furlong Collection of Modern Art. In: Weber Furlong Collection of Modern Art. Retrieved August 2, 2016 (American English). 
5. ^ Plate in The Hyde Collection Museum, Glens Falls
6. ↑ ^{a b} Maury Thompson: Artist honored: Glens Falls painter was at forefront of Modern Art change. In: The Post-Star. July 12, 2013, accessed August 2, 2016 . 
7. ↑ ^{a b c d} Oral history interview with Dorothy Dehner, October 1, 1965 - December 1966. In: www.aaa.si.edu. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, accessed August 2, 2016 . 
8. ^ Whitney Museum of American Art Library, Archive Number 15405
9. ↑ Detailed description of the Ben Benn papers, 1905-1993. In: www.aaa.si.edu. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, accessed August 2, 2016 . 
10. ^ Anthony F. Hall: Tales from Golden Heart, Part Three: Documenting the Life and Times of Bolton Artist Weber Furlong | Lake George Mirror Magazine. (No longer available online.) In: Lake George Mirror Magazine. July 24, 2012, archived from the original on August 2, 2016 ; accessed on August 2, 2016 . 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.  
11. ^ Richard Mark Glover: Marfa City Council onboard for American Modernism. (No longer available online.) In: Big Bend Now. August 16, 2012, formerly in the original ; accessed on August 2, 2016 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.    
12. ^ Weber Furlong retrospective extended at Building 98. (No longer available online.) In: Big Bend Now. December 6, 2012, archived from the original on June 23, 2015 ; accessed on August 2, 2016 . 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.  
13. ↑ ^{a b} davids: America's First Female Modern Artists Local Link (video). (No longer available online.) In: Look TV. August 7, 2012, archived from the original on January 28, 2013 ; accessed on August 2, 2016 . 
14. ↑ West Texas Talk: Clint Weber and Dr. James Kettlewell. In: Marfa Public Radio. October 2, 2012, Retrieved August 2, 2016 (American English). 
15. ^ West Texas Talk: Clint Weber. In: Marfa Public Radio. July 19, 2012, Retrieved August 2, 2016 (American English). 
16. ^ Events and Programs: Weber Furlong and the Origins of Modern Art. (No longer available online.) In: www.hydecollection.org. October 6, 2013, archived from the original on September 24, 2015 ; accessed on August 2, 2016 . 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.  
17. ^ Weber Furlong documentary film historic marker dedication at City Hall in Glens Falls, New York. In: YouTube. Time Warner Cable News, April 25, 2014, accessed August 2, 2016 (American English).