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Fidelia Bridges: Nature Into Art

Fidelia Bridges: Nature Into Art

Manthorne, Katherine

Hardcover

Series: Northern Lights

Art HistoryGeneral ArtPainting Instruction

Publisher Price: $49.99

ISBN10: 1848225482
ISBN13: 9781848225480
Publisher: Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd
Published: Apr 30 2023
Pages: 128
Weight: 1.65
Height: 0.71 Width: 7.72 Depth: 10.08
Language: English

Fidelia Bridges (1834-1923) painted pictures that critics praised for their ability to exude the fragrance of field flowers and glow with the plumage of birds. Raised in Salem and long residing in Connecticut, she maintained a studio in New York City, where she exhibited her art for over forty years at the National Academy, American Watercolor Society and other prestigious venues. Transforming flower painting from a domestic outlet for female amateurs to a marketable commodity for professionals, she never wavered in her conviction that women had the right to shape independent careers on their own terms. She delineated both cultivated flowers and clumps of weeds with an intensity of focus unmatched by any other artist of her era. Often, she combined plants with local birds to convey a sophisticated understanding of their environmental interaction that encouraged others to appreciate and conserve nature. She made an extended European tour in the 1860s and regular trips to Great Britain in later years but preferred home nature.

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