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Four Sisters Norah Neilson Gray

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Four Sisters

Norah Neilson Gray

Little Brother, 1921 Norah Neilson Gray . From Wiki:...

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Little Brother, 1921

Norah Neilson Gray

From Wiki: “Gray was born at Carisbrook on West King Street in Helensburgh in 1882 to George Gray, a Glasgow ship owner, and his wife, Norah Neilson. She was first privately taught by two local art teachers. Gray and her family then moved to Glasgow in 1901 so she could attend the Glasgow School of Art for the next six years. She trained under the Belgian Jean Delville and Fra. Newberry. Eventually she taught drawing and design to students at the school.

Gray also taught at St. Columba’s in Kilmacolm which at the time was a girl’s school. Miss Gray was said to have been nicknamed “Purple Patch”, because of her insistence that colours could be seen in shadows if you looked correctly.

Gray was exhibiting by 1910 and had her own studio where she painted portraits. During the first world war Gray volunteered as a nurse and was sent to France where she found time to paint and sketch.

A painting Hôpital Auxilaire 1918 from that time was offered to the Imperial War Museum but the budget was exhausted. The painting shows the vaulted thirteenth century Royaumont Abbaye, near Paris, where women had organised a hospital to treat the casualties of the war. The hospital was staffed by Scottish Women’s Hospitals, under the direction of the French Red Cross.

In 1920, Gray painted for the Imperial War Museum, but Hôpital Auxilaire 1918 had to wait for the 1978 bequest of her sister, Tina, who left it to Helensburgh on the condition that a permanent place be found to exhibit it. The painting now hangs in the town’s library.

In 1921 and 1923 she was given a medal for her painting, The Belgian in Exile which she had completed in 1915. That picture shows a Belgian refugee from Liege who had fled to Scotland after his country was invaded. Gray was chosen to be the first woman to join the influential hanging committee of the Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts.

Gray died in Glasgow at the age of 48 in 1931 of cancer.” via: wikipedia

The Belgian in Exile, 1915

Little Boy with Oranges, Glasgow Museums Norah Neilson Gray

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Little Boy with Oranges, Glasgow Museums

Norah Neilson Gray

Ian & Rosemary Norah Neilson Gray

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Ian & Rosemary

Norah Neilson Gray

Portrait of a Girl in Blue, 1920–25, Glasgow Museums Norah...

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Portrait of a Girl in Blue, 1920–25, Glasgow Museums

Norah Neilson Gray

. The temple of our purest thoughts is silence. . ~Sarah J....

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The temple of our purest thoughts is silence.

~Sarah J. Hale

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“But she had to know words. She had to know everything.” - Eva Ibbotson

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Buster Keaton and Charlotte Greenwood

From Parlor, Bedroom and Bath, 1931

I love you madly scene :D

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Ladies….prepare yourselves.
Bearded Buster Keaton.

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Wed, 22 May 2013 09:35:17 -0400

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Moonrise, 1906B. J. O. Nordfeldt Born: Tullstorp, Sweden...

Wed, 22 May 2013 09:25:56 -0400

Moonrise, 1906
B. J. O. Nordfeldt
Born: Tullstorp, Sweden 1878
Died: Henderson, Texas 1955
color woodcut on paper
image: 11 1/4 x 8 in. (28.6 x 20.3 cm)
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Gift of L. Laszlo Ecker-Racz
1981.127.1

Figures among Trees, 1906B. J. O. Nordfeldt Born: Tullstorp,...

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Figures among Trees, 1906
B. J. O. Nordfeldt
Born: Tullstorp, Sweden 1878
Died: Henderson, Texas 1955
color woodcut on paper
image: 12 3/4 x 8 1/2 in. (32.5 x 21.5 cm)
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Museum purchase, 1977.59.2

The Skyrocket, 1906B. J. O. Nordfeldt Born: Tullstorp, Sweden...

Wed, 22 May 2013 09:08:56 -0400

The Skyrocket, 1906
B. J. O. Nordfeldt
Born: Tullstorp, Sweden 1878
Died: Henderson, Texas 1955
color woodcut on paper
image: 8 3/4 x 11 1/4 in. (22.2 x 28.6 cm)
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Gift of L. Laszlo Ecker-Racz, 1981.127.8

The Bridge, 1906B. J. O. Nordfeldt Born: Tullstorp, Sweden...

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The Bridge, 1906
B. J. O. Nordfeldt
Born: Tullstorp, Sweden 1878
Died: Henderson, Texas 1955
color woodcut on paper
image: 8 1/8 x 10 3/8 in. (20.6 x 26.5 cm)
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Gift of L. Laszlo Ecker-Racz
1981.127.6

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Fanny Zakucka, from Ver Sacrum, 1902

Hans Christian Andersen

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