Adele Watson Explained

Adele Watson
Birth Date:April 30, 1873
Birth Place:Toledo, Ohio
Death Place:Pasadena, California
Nationality:American
Education:Art Students League of New York
Field:Painting, Lithography

Fanny Adele Watson (1873-1947) was an American painter and lithographer.

Watson was born on April 30, 1873 in Toledo, Ohio.[1] In 1880 her family moved to Pasadena, California after the death of her father. She studied at the Art Students League of New York as a young adult, and returned to California in 1917. She traveled to Paris and became a pupil of Raphael Collin[2] and friends with poet/artist Khalil Gibran.[3] She exhibited and was a member of the American Artists Professional League, the Pen and Brush Club,[4] and the Society of Independent Artists. She also exhibited her work at the National Academy of Design.[5] She was influenced by Symbolism and Mysticism.

Watson's first public exhibit was in 1913.[6] Watson's first New York solo exhibit was held in 1916 at the Folsom Galleries[7] and was reviewed as having "joy, freedom, vitality and abounding sense of rhythm."[8] Reviewing an exhibit of Watson's work in 1918, Anna T. Craig, writing for American Art News, suggested, "Miss Watson had especially the dramatic, epic and pageant sense for conveying her thoughts through her work."[9] Arthur Miller, writing for the Los Angeles Times in 1933 about Watson's exhibit of paintings and painted screens, suggested "Miss Watson see landscape in terms of the soul of man."[10] Miller continued, "this is her first Los Angeles showing of her works which have gained favor in the East."

Watson's work is associated with the California Coast and Zion National Park in Utah.[11] [12] [13] Watson died in Pasadena, California, on March 23, 1947.[14]

In 1953 the Pasadena Art Institute held a retrospective of Watson's work,[15] [16] [17] and again in 1963, the Pasadena Art Institute held a memorial exhibition of her work.[18] [19] Watson's work was included in the 2022-2023 exhibit, At the Dawn of a New Age: Early Twentieth-Century American Modernism, at the Whitney Museum of American Art[20] [21] where examples of her work are also held.[22] Her work is also in the collections of the Orange County Museum of Art and the Philadelphia Museum of Art.[23]

Note

There was another Adele Watson who was a contemporary who was an actress: Adele Watson (1890-1933) from Minnesota starred in over 20 films in the 1920s-1930s.[24]

Notes and References

  1. Book: Benezit Dictionary of Artists . 2011 . 978-0-19-977378-7 . en . Watson, Adele . 10.1093/benz/9780199773787.article.B00194897 . https://www.oxfordartonline.com/benezit/view/10.1093/benz/9780199773787.001.0001/acref-9780199773787-e-00194897 . subscription.
  2. Web site: Hughes . Edan . Adele Watson . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20230701021704/http://www.calart.com/artists/Adele-Watson/163 . 1 July 2023 . 30 June 2023 . CalART.com.
  3. Web site: Khalil Gibran, Portrait of Adele Watson (1926) . live . https://archive.today/20230701021114/https://www.facebook.com/FrancescoMediciAuthor/posts/2621202254597859/ . 1 July 2023 . 30 June 2023 . Facebook . en . Facebook post of picture of drawing . Khalil Gibran, Portrait of Adele Watson (1926), inscribed and signed at lower left 'To my friend Adele Watson, Kahlil Gibran, 1926'.
  4. 7 February 1920 . Pen and Brush Club, Show . . 18 . 16 . 3 . 1944-0227 . 25589580 . free.
  5. Web site: Adele (Fanny) Watson . AskArt . 29 July 2020.
  6. 13 February 1915 . Arts and Artists . . 13 . 19 . 7 . 1944-0227 . 25588527 . Like her pictures shown at the Museum at her first public exhibition two years ago... . free.
  7. 18 November 1916 . Miss Watson's Pastorals . . 15 . 9 . 3 . 1944-0227 . 25588974 . Adele Watson, who has a poetic tendency and some grace of composition, is displaying, at the Folsom Galleries... . free.
  8. News: 7 January 1917 . Pasadena Painter Given Plaudits: Adele Watson's Landscapes Impress New York; Brooklyn 'Eagle' Comments on Rhythmic Beauty Expressed on Canvas Shown at Her First Metropolitan Exhibition--Varying Ideals Contrasted . III 4 . Los Angeles Times.
  9. Craig . Anna T. . 16 February 1918 . Paintings by Adele Watson . . 16 . 19 . 3 . 1944-0227 . 25589232 . free.
  10. News: Miller . Arthur . 9 April 1933 . Reviews of Local Music and Art: Woman Painter's Vision Lends Wings to Landscape Adele Watson Peoples Earth With Poetic Beings; Pasadena Academy Sponsors Large Show; Other Exhibits . A6 . Los Angeles Times.
  11. Web site: Adele (Fanny) Watson - Artist Facts . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20230615034036/https://www.askart.com/artist_keywords/Adele_Fanny_Watson/100292/Adele_Fanny_Watson.aspx . 15 June 2023 . 30 June 2023 . askART.
  12. Web site: Adele Watson - Artworks . 30 June 2023 . Artnet.
  13. Web site: Women in Zion - Artists . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20230407161342/https://www.nps.gov/zion/learn/historyculture/women-in-zion.htm . 7 April 2023 . 30 June 2023 . . . en.
  14. News: 24 March 1947 . Adele Watson, Painter, Dies . 5 . . 0458-3035 . Miss Adele Watson, noted painter and daughter of early Southern California family, died yesterday at Huntington Memorial Hospital, Pasadena, after a brief illness. .
  15. Web site: Fanny Adele Watson Biography . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20230515025007/https://www.annexgalleries.com/artists/biography/2491/Watson/Fanny . 15 May 2023 . 29 July 2020 . Annex Galleries Fine Prints.
  16. News: 1 February 1953 . In the Galleries: Sun Dominates Mood of Crown's Canvases . D8 . . The [Pasadena Art Institute] also devotes considerable space to a retrospective exhibition of the paintings, drawings and prints of Adele Watson....
  17. Web site: 1953 . Paintings and Drawings by Adele Watson . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20230612024817/https://new.nortonsimon.org/exhibitions/1950-1959/paintings-and-drawings-by-adele-watson-/ . 12 June 2023 . 11 June 2023 . . en-US.
  18. News: 24 February 1963 . Complete Guide to Southland Entertainment and Culture - Art - Continuing Exhibits . B11 . Los Angeles Times.
  19. Web site: 1963 . Adele Watson Memorial . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20220519045536/https://www.nortonsimon.org/exhibitions/1960-1969/adele-watson-memorial-/ . 19 May 2022 . 11 June 2023 . . en-US.
  20. Web site: Gural . Natasha . 16 August 2022 . Whitney Museum Re-Informs Our Modernist Gaze, Celebrating Artists Who Have Been Under-Represented In Art History Alongside Leading Masters . live . https://archive.today/20230611040529/https://www.forbes.com/sites/natashagural/2022/08/16/whitney-museum-re-informs-our-modernist-gaze-displaying-artists-who-have-been-under-represented-in-art-history-alongside-leading-masters/?sh=51a18e8b4ea6 . 11 June 2023 . 10 June 2023 . . en.
  21. Web site: 2022 . At the Dawn of a New Age: Early Twentieth-Century American Modernism . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20230315131549/https://whitney.org/exhibitions/dawn-of-a-new-age . 15 March 2023 . 10 June 2023 . . en.
  22. Web site: Adele Watson . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20230401070438/https://whitney.org/artists/20108 . 1 April 2023 . 10 June 2023 . . en.
  23. Web site: Search: Adele Watson . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20230612025237/https://philamuseum.org/search/collections?filters=%7B%22artist%22%3A%5B%22Adele%20Watson%22%5D%7D . 12 June 2023 . 11 June 2023 . . en.
  24. Web site: Adele Watson (1890-1933) . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20230701205451/https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0914486/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1 . 1 July 2023 . 1 July 2023 . . en-US.

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