Spring Landscape
Oil on canvas
18 x 21 inches
Circa 1927
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 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 Spring Landscape 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.
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