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Marine Still Life

Edith London

1904-1997

Marine Still Life

Oil on canvas

24 1/8 in x 36 1/8 in

1953

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For many twentieth century artists, Cubism was a powerful and pervasive influence, and this is especially true for those educated abroad. Edith London first embraced the style during her years in Paris when she was a student of André Lhote. Painted well after that time, Marine Still Life demonstrates Cubism’s main tenets: a flattened, non-perspectival handling of space, overlapping angular shapes, and a penchant for abstracting objects. London’s exposure to art began as a child in Berlin; with the ascendancy of Nazism, her family immigrated to the United States, settling in Durham, North Carolina. The painter’s passion for her chosen profession never waned: “My artistic work allows me to follow one of the most lofty pursuits in the field of human endeavor.”

As Published In:

Central to Their Lives: Southern Women Artists in the Johnson Collection, 2018

Southern/Modern: Rediscovering Southern Art from the First Half of the Twentieth Century, 2023

As Exhibited In:

SENSORIUM: Debussy: La Mer and Scented Visions, TJC Gallery, Spartanburg, SC, July 23–September 20, 2025

Southern/Modern: 1913-1955, Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, GA, July 1, 2023–February 1, 2025, Frist Art Museum, Nashville, TN, January 25–April 28, 2024, Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Memphis, TN, July 14–September 29, 2024, Mint Museum Uptown, Charlotte, NC, October 25, 2024–February 2, 2025

Surrounded by Forms: Abstracted Scenes from the Johnson Collection, TJC Gallery, Spartanburg, SC, January 18–April 8, 2023

Central to Their Lives: Southern Women Artists in the Johnson Collection, Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, GA, June 30–October 23, 2018, Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MS, November 16, 2018–January 20, 2019, Huntington Museum of Art, Huntington, WV, March 2–June 30, 2019, Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Memphis, TN, July 28–October 13, 2019, Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, SC, January 1–August 9, 2020, Wofford College, Spartanburg, SC, September 7–December 18, 2020, Taubman Museum of Art, Roanoke, VA, February 6–July 18, 2021

This is a Different Place: Works of Southern Modernism from the Johnson Collection, Wofford College, Spartanburg, SC, April 3–May 28, 2009

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