Camille Pissarro Gallery, Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas, Virgin Islands
Born on St. Thomas on July 10, 1803 in the town of Charlotte Amalie, Camille Pissarro is probably the Virgin Islands most famous native son. He is considered to be the leader of the Impressionism movement of painting. Local boy makes good!
Pissarro lived in St. Thomas as a youth, leaving to attend boarding school in Paris, then returning to St. Thomas in 1847 to help his father run a dry goods business. The Pissarro family operated a general store in what is now known as the Pissarro Building, at 14 Dronnigens Gade in Charlotte Amalie. The family lived upstairs over the store.
At boarding school in Paris the director noted his artistic talent and interests, and advised him to take advantage of his life in the tropics by drawing coconut trees. The young Pissarro took his advice, and took his sketchbook with him when his father sent him to the port to supervise arrivals of merchandise. He drew what he saw in the harbor and around the island in his spare time.
However during the following 5 years of working in the family business while trying to become an artist, Pissarro did not get his parents permission to devote himself completely to painting, so he ran away to Caracas, Venezuela. He was 23 at the time, and while he was there he studied under Fritz Melbye, a Danish painter from Copenhagen. In Caracas her produced drawings, watercolors, and paintings, signing many of them as Pizzarro. As he noted in a letter to an art dealer and collector:
Living in Saint Thomas in 1852, employed in a well-paying business, I could not endure the situation any longer, and without thinking, I abandoned all I had there and fled to Caracas, thus breaking the bonds that tied me to bourgeois life. What I suffered is incredible, but I have lived: what I am suffering now is terrible, much worse even than when I was young, full of zeal and enthusiasm. Now I am convinced that my future is dead. Yet I think that if I had to start all over again, I would not hesitate to follow the same path.
Pissarro eventually returned to St. Thomas and his parents gave him their support as a full time artist. He then left the Virgin Islands for Paris, where he eventually became the leader of a group of painters that included Renoir, Monet, Degas, and Cezanne, who formed the initial Impressionistic style of painting.
Pissarro was an active painter up until the time he died in 1903.
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Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas, USVI - Cruising by the Charlotte Amalie Waterfront HD (2015)
Charlotte Amalie, located on St. Thomas, is the capital and largest city of the U.S. Virgin Islands, founded in 1666 as Taphus (meaning beer houses or beer halls). In 1691, the town was renamed to Amalienborg (in English Charlotte Amalie) after Charlotte Amalie of Hesse-Kassel (1650–1714), queen consort to King Christian V of Denmark. It contains a deep-water harbor that was once a haven for pirates and is now one of the busiest port of call for cruise ships in the Caribbean, with about 1.5 million cruise ship passengers landing there in 2004. Protected by Hassel Island, the harbor has docking and fueling facilities, machine shops, and shipyards and was a U.S. submarine base until 1966. The town has been inhabited for centuries. When Christopher Columbus came here in 1493, the area was inhabited by both Island Caribs and Taíno. It is located on the southern shore at the head of Saint Thomas Harbor. In 2010 the city had a population of 18,481, which makes it the largest city in the Virgin Islands Archipelago. Hundreds of ferries and yachts pass through town each week, and at times the population more than doubles.
The city is known for its Danish colonial architecture, building structure and history, and a dozen streets and places throughout the city have Danish names. Charlotte Amalie has buildings of historical importance including St. Thomas Synagogue, the second-oldest synagogue in the Western Hemisphere, and the oldest Lutheran church in the Western Hemisphere, the Frederick Lutheran Church. The town has a long history of pirates, especially stories of Bluebeard and Blackbeard (Edward Teach). In the 17th-century, the Danes built both Blackbeard's Castle and Bluebeard's Castle attributed to the pirates. Blackbeard's Castle is a U.S. National Historic Landmark. Another tourist attraction is Fort Christian, the oldest standing structure in the Virgin Islands Archipelago. A copy of the Liberty Bell is located in Emancipation Park, which is a tourist attraction.
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Camille Pissarro (10 July 1830 – 13 November 1903) was a Danish-French Impressionist and Neo-Impressionist painter born on the island of St. Thomas (now in the US Virgin Islands, but then in the Danish West Indies). His importance resides in his contributions to both Impressionism and Post-Impressionism. Pissarro studied from great forerunners, including Gustave Courbet and Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot. He later studied and worked alongside Georges Seurat and Paul Signac when he took on the Neo-Impressionist style at the age of 54.
In 1873 he helped establish a collective society of fifteen aspiring artists, becoming the pivotal figure in holding the group together and encouraging the other members. Art historian John Rewald called Pissarro the dean of the Impressionist painters, not only because he was the oldest of the group, but also by virtue of his wisdom and his balanced, kind, and warmhearted personality. Paul Cézanne said he was a father for me. A man to consult and a little like the good Lord, and he was also one of Gauguin's masters. Renoir referred to his work as revolutionary, through his artistic portrayals of the common man, as Pissarro insisted on painting individuals in natural settings without artifice or grandeur.
Pissarro is the only artist to have shown his work at all eight Paris Impressionist exhibitions, from 1874 to 1886. He acted as a father figure not only to the Impressionists but to all four of the major Post-Impressionists, including Claude Monet, Paul Cézanne, Vincent van Gogh and Paul Gauguin.
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Margarete Bagshaw's micaceous clay artwork - St. Thomas USVI - 2009
Margarete Bagshaw - micaceous clay work from 2009.
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Transfer Day by Gary James
Author name: Gary James
Title: Transfer Day
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The narrative of Transfer Day explores the discovery of ancestral roots on the Island of St. Croix and the history of the American Virgin Islands, formally known as the Danish West Indies.
The Transfer Day literary project is central to a series of projects that formulate a comprehensive study of the historical New World. Learn the role the Virgin Islands and Caribbean region played in the growth and advanced development of the Western world and the African Diaspora.
Apart from the Caribbean Islands as the first port of call for Christopher Columbus' four voyages and the explorer's official mandate of discovery, enslaved Africans on St. Croix and the Virgin Islands in particular gave birth to historical African American figures. These people made exemplary contributions to the respective islands of their birth, as well to the illustrious and colorful history of America and the famous Harlem Renaissance.
Transfer Day crystallizes an important and unheralded piece of history that enjoys a symbiotic connection in context to the broader popular historical account of the development of the Western hemisphere, from the sixteenth century to current political, economic, and social times.
Gary James is a perennial student of history, a business owner and former professional political organizer during the civil rights era. He was member of the New York City staff of the National Welfare Rights Organization (NWRO) from 1966 to 1971. Writing and the creative arts has always been his passion. He is currently a political analyst, consultant, author, and is the chairman of a consulting and management company specializing in project development, from concept to creation.
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European Art (Epi. 2) | Conversations With A Curator
Get an inside look at pieces in the High's European Art Collection. Personal insights are from David Brenneman, Curator of European Art. To learn more about European Art @ the High, visit High.org/EuropeanArt
A Magnificent Legacy: French Art in the Mellon Collection presented by Kimberly A. Jones Part Two
Offering more than seventy works by masters from every important school of French art, from Romanticism through the School of Paris, Van Gogh, Monet, Degas, and Their Times: The Mellon Collection of French Art celebrates Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon’s extraordinary gift of French 19th- and early 20th-century art to the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. In this lecture, Kimberly A. Jones will explore the tradition of philanthropy that motivated the creation of their renowned collection, told through the story of the Mellons’ love for French art.
Kimberly A. Jones received her PhD from the University of Maryland in 1996. A former museum fellow at the Musée national du château de Pau and the Musée d’Orsay, Paris, she joined the curatorial staff of the National Gallery of Art in 1995.
Jones was a collaborator and catalogue co-author forJean-Paul Laurens (1838–1921), peintre d’histoire, a 1997–1998 exhibition at the Musée d’Orsay and the Musée des Augustins, Toulouse. She has served as curator and catalogue author for a number of exhibitions at the National Gallery of Art, including Degas at the Races (1998); Edouard Vuillard, which was organized by the National Gallery of Art, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, the Musée d’Orsay/Réunion des musées nationaux, Paris, and the Royal Academy of Arts, London (2003–2004); In the Forest of Fontainebleau: Painters and Photographers from Corot to Monet, which was organized in association with the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (2008); From Impressionism to Modernism: The Chester Dale Collection (2010–2011); and Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Masterpieces from the National Gallery of Art, an exhibition that traveled to the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the National Arts Center, Tokyo, and the Municipal Museum of Art, Kyoto (2011). Most recently, she was the curator and principal catalogue author for Degas/Cassatt (2014).
Jones has lectured and published articles on a number of topics related to French art of the 19th century and is currently overseeing the publication of the systematic catalogue of the National Gallery’s collection of later 19th-century French paintings.
The Frist Art Museum is a nonprofit art-exhibition center dedicated to presenting the finest visual art from local, state and regional artists, as well as major U.S. and international exhibitions. The Frist occupies Nashville’s former main post office building, a 124,400-square-foot facility with nearly 40,000 square feet of exhibition space. The city’s treasured art deco building was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.
We are open seven days a week on the following schedule:
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday: 10:00 a.m.–5:30 p.m.
Thursday and Friday: 10:00 a.m.–9:00 p.m. (Martin ArtQuest closes at 5:30 p.m.)
Saturday: 10:00 a.m.–5:30 p.m.
Sunday: 1:00–5:30 p.m. (Café opens at noon on Sunday)
The Frist Art Museum is closed on Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year's Day. The museum will close at
3:00 p.m. on Christmas Eve.
919 Broadway, Nashville, Tennessee, 37203
“Writing the Art of Armenia” Christina Maranci
“Writing the Art of Armenia”
Christina Maranci, Arthur H. Dadian and Ara Oztemel Professor of Armenian Art and Architecture at Tufts University
Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
University of Chicago
Dumanian Lecture Series
Friday, January 11th, 2019
Pick Lounge
5:00PM
Introduction by Holly Shissler, Associate Professor of Ottoman and Modern Turkish History
The Longest Running Show: Small French Paintings from the Ailsa Mellon Bruce Collection
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The Brooklyn Museum is an art museum located in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. At 560,000 square feet (52,000 m2), the museum is New York City's third largest in physical size and holds an art collection with roughly 1.5 million works.Located near the Prospect Heights, Crown Heights, Flatbush, and Park Slope neighborhoods of Brooklyn and founded in 1895, the Beaux-Arts building, designed by McKim, Mead and White, was planned to be the largest art museum in the world. The museum initially struggled to maintain its building and collection, only to be revitalized in the late 20th century, thanks to major renovations. Significant areas of the collection include antiquities, specifically their collection of Egyptian antiquities spanning over 3,000 years. European, African, Oceanic, and Japanese art make for notable antiquities collections as well. American art is heavily represented, starting at the Colonial period. Artists represented in the collection include Mark Rothko, Edward Hopper, Norman Rockwell, Winslow Homer, Edgar Degas, Georgia O'Keeffe, and Max Weber. The museum also has a Memorial Sculpture Garden which features salvaged architectural elements from throughout New York City.