The Bouquet
Elisabeth Chant
Artwork
Spring Landscape
1865-1947
Oil on canvas
18 in x 21 in
Circa 1927
Label:
A sensitive aesthete with an eccentric personal style, Elisabeth Chant wore voluminous dresses made with brightly colored and embellished fabrics. In 1922, at the age of fifty-seven, the well-traveled Chant settled in Wilmington, North Carolina, a city she selected for its temperate climate. She spent the final twenty-five years of her bohemian life there, working as a multidisciplinary artist, passionate teacher, and arts advocate.
The location of her freshly painted Landscape with Trees has not been determined, and even though Chant decried Impressionism, the canvas displays some of the style’s main traits, namely significant impasto and the use of highlights.
Now On View:
Mary Black Foundation, Spartanburg, SC
As Published In:
Scenic Impressions: Southern Interpretations from the Johnson Collection, 2015
Central to Their Lives: Southern Women Artists in the Johnson Collection, 2018
As Exhibited In:
We Speak of Exchange: Immigrant and Expatriate Artists in the Johnson Collection, TJC Gallery, Spartanburg, SC, September 15–December 10, 2021
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
Scenic Impressions: Southern Interpretations from the Johnson Collection, Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Memphis, TN, November 1, 2015–January 3, 2016, Morris Museum of Art, Augusta, GA, January 16–April 10, 2016, Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, TN, January 16–April 10, 2016, McKissick Museum, Columbia, SC, May 19–August 5, 2017, Telfair Museums, Savannah, GA, October 13, 2017–March 25, 2018, Wofford College, Spartanburg, SC, August 28–December 13, 2018
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