Garden Scene
Oil on canvas
26 1/8 x 30 1/8 inches
As published in:
Scenic Impressions: Southern Interpretations from the Johnson Collection
Central to Their Lives: Southern Women Artists in the Johnson Collection
As exhibited in:
Central to Their Lives: Southern Women Artists in the Johnson Collection, 2018–2021, Georgia Museum of Art, Athens; Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson; Huntington Museum of Art, West Virginia; Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Memphis, Tennessee; Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, South Carolina; Wofford College, Spartanburg, South Carolina; Taubman Museum of Art, Roanoke, Virginia
Scenic Impressions: Southern Interpretations from the Johnson Collection, 2015–2018, Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Memphis, Tennessee; Morris Museum of Art, Augusta, Georgia; McKissick Museum of Art at the University of South Carolina, Columbia; Telfair Museums, Savannah, Georgia; Knoxville Museum of Art, Tennessee; Rosalind Sallenger Richardson Center for the Arts at Wofford College, Spartanburg, South Carolina
A spirited redhead, Blondelle Malone was intrepid. She wrote letters to Mary Cassatt asking advice and won a coveted interview with the reclusive Claude Monet. She boasted to her parents: “He refuses to see every one—especially Americans. . . . He told me he did not like to see people and I was the only one he had received in years. . . . He told me to keep on and paint as I see and not as others paint, not to be influenced.”
Although ailing family often beckoned her home to Columbia, South Carolina, Malone benefited from her many years in Paris—where she embraced the Impressionists—and from her extensive travels in Europe and the Far East. Owing to her fresh and colorful canvases, she was acclaimed “the garden artist of America.”
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