There is something magical about Edwardian women of a certain class, at leisure in their gardens. Reading, having afternoon tea or tending to the children...just like E Phillips Fox and Laura Knight.
Their Edwardian whites were soft, beautiful dresses and more sensible than their mothers' corset-bound affairs.
May 3, 2013 at 8:04 PM
dearieme said...
His women look a little sour-faced to me.
May 4, 2013 at 12:50 PM
According to this account, it seems that Karl Albert Buehr (1866–1952) was a successful Chicago area artist and teacher (at the Art Institute), one I hadn't heard of until recently.
He was born in Germany and emigrated to America as a teenager with his family. He later spent time in the Giverny, France artist colony near where Claude Monet lived. So Buehr was Impressionist-influenced, but his non-landscape paintings were of the American version of Impressionism that featured stronger drawing than the classical French style of Monet.
Sometime around when he was in Giverny, Buehr did a number of paintings of young women that included brightly colored, Japanese inspired parasols. Here are a few:
Gallery
[Image]Red-Headed Girl with Parasol - c.1912
[Image]In Repose - c.1915
[Image]Picnic on the Grass
[Image]Under the Parasol
[Image]Woman with Parasol
posted by Donald Pittenger at 1:00 AM on May 3, 2013
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Close this window Jump to comment formThere is something magical about Edwardian women of a certain class, at leisure in their gardens. Reading, having afternoon tea or tending to the children...just like E Phillips Fox and Laura Knight.
Their Edwardian whites were soft, beautiful dresses and more sensible than their mothers' corset-bound affairs.
May 3, 2013 at 8:04 PM
His women look a little sour-faced to me.
May 4, 2013 at 12:50 PM