Annie French

Annie French (1873–1965) was a Scottish painter, engraver, illustrator, and designer associated with the Glasgow School.

Biography

French was a student of Jean Delville and Fra Newbery at the Glasgow School of Art from 1896 to 1902.[1][2] She shared a studio with artist Bessie Young and fellow Glasgow School painter Jane Younger from 1906 to 1914.[1][3] She returned to the Glasgow School to teach ceramic decoration from 1909 to 1912.[1][2]

French was married to painter, engraver, and illustrator George Woolliscroft Rhead from 1914 until his death in 1920.[1][4]

Art

As a member of a group of designers and artists known as the Glasgow Girls,[5] French was best known for black-and-white illustrations in the Art Nouveau style.[2][6] Her influences included Aubrey Beardsley[7] and Charles Rennie Mackintosh.[5]

French's work was exhibited at the Royal Academy and published in The Studio.[2]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Gray, Sara (2009). French, Annie. The Dictionary of British Women Artists (Casemate Publishers). pp. 110–111. Retrieved 30 December 2015.
  2. 1 2 3 4 French, Annie. Benezit Dictionary of British Graphic Artists and Illustrators 1 (Oxford University Press). 21 June 2012. pp. 419–420. Retrieved 30 December 2015.
  3. Franchini, Caterina (2015). "Women's Creativity at the International Exhibition of Modern Decorative Art (Turin, 1902)". Res Mobilis. Oviedo University Press. pp. 59–60. ISSN 2255-2057. Retrieved 30 December 2015.
  4. Rhead, George Woolliscroft. Benezit Dictionary of British Graphic Artists and Illustrators 1 (Oxford University Press). 21 June 2012. p. 264. Retrieved 30 December 2015.
  5. 1 2 Billcliffe, Roger (April 1991). "A Brush With Europe: Visual Art in Glasgow 1890–1990". RSA Journal 139 (5417): 334. Retrieved 30 December 2015. (registration required (help)). In a series of rooms designed by Mackintosh, the Four and their many Glasgow colleagues created a display which was unequalled by any other contributing country. Jessie King, E.A. Taylor, George Logan, Annie French, Ann Macbeth, De Courcy Lewthwaite Dewar, John Ednie, Jessie Newbery and a host of other talented Glasgow designers and craftsmen and women rightfully claimed the limelight.
  6. Hardie, William (2010). Scottish Painting: 1837 to the present. Waverley Books. p. 121. ISBN 9781849340359.
  7. Murdoch, W.G. Blaikie (December 1917). "British Illustrators". The American Magazine of Art. p. 54. Retrieved 30 December 2015. And it is [Aubrey Beardsley's] work in this lapidarian manner which has proved influential to Miss Jessie King and to Miss Annie French, whose craftsmanship, in various of her little pictures for old ballads, has a charm making every particle claim microscopic study.
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