Gwen John: Art and Life in London and Paris shows the nature of her dogged opposition: how she fought back, and won, in her own way. Gwen John, "Autoportrait à la Lettre" (Self-Portrait with a ...

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In real life, Gwen John may have been as gregarious, even boisterous, as the exhibition maintains, but in her art she seems to have chosen loneliness as a conscious aesthetic path.

John was born in Wales to respectable but poor parents in 1876. She followed her younger brother Augustus to the Slade School of Art, then the most progressive art school in London, in 1895.

On display there was the work of Gwen John, elder sister of famed Painter Augustus John, and an artist almost unknown before her death in 1939. Even six years ago, when a memorial show of her work ...

The essence of Gwen John’s art is summed up by her teacher James Abbott McNeill Whistler: tone. When her brother Augustus John talked about the character of her work, Whistler fired back, “Character?

Gwen John: Art and Life in London and Paris,' in on view at Pallant House Gallery in Chichester, through October 8. Gwen John, Landscape at Tenby with Figures (c. 1896/97), oil on board.

Gwen John, whose full name was Gwendolen Mary John, was a British artist known for her oil paintings and portraits of anonymous female sitters. "I paint a good deal, but I don't often get a picture ...

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