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Artist |
Simonds, Edith |
Object Name |
Watercolor |
Title |
Harbour Forms |
Date |
1965 |
Medium |
Watercolor, gouache and collage on paper |
Dimensions |
12 x 18 in. (34.5 x 45.7 cm) |
Accession Number |
2239.0.0 |
About This Work |
Edith Simonds was born in Queens in 1901 and came from an affluent family that had connections with the upper echelons of New York society. Her family also included four generations of women artists: her mother, Edith Vernon Mann Simonds, her daughter, Sandys Moore, and her granddaughter, Hannah Bureau. Moore and Bureau are practicing artists today. Despite painting in a very distinct, abstract style and producing a number of works, Simonds's name is perhaps the most obscure in this exhibition. Research yields very little about her career. In the oil painting and mixed-media drawings on view, Simonds works in an abstract style using geometric forms and color. She explores how overlapping or adjacent shapes can affect the balance of a composition and where the viewer's eye is drawn first in the work. Whatever artistic instruction that Simonds may or may not have had, her choice of abstraction demonstrates that she was aware of popular styles of the day. Unlisted: Underappreciated Women Artists from the Permanent Collection, May 28-October 2, 2022, exhibition label. |
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