Leslie Compton
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The Forgotten Artist: The Story of Evylena Nunn Miller de Leslie Compton
Ressenya escrita per a Crítics Matiners de LibraryThing .This book is a biography of Evylena Nunn Miller who was passionate about sharing the landscapes of California. Although I was delayed in reading this book, I hoped it would grab me and carry me through the pages. However, that was not the case as the typos were a distraction. Lack of good proofreading turned this reader off to the book itself.
Ressenya escrita per a Crítics Matiners de LibraryThing .Early Reviewers July 2022 batch.
“The Forgotten Artist” is a biography of Southern California based artist Evylena Nunn Miller (1888-1966). Completed by her great niece, it is as much a story of an artist finding her way in the early 20th century in the Southern California art scene as it is that of a documentation of family history during a time in America that saw the freeing of enslaved individuals, Westward expansion, and missionary work overseas.
The story begins decades before Evylena’s birth as the author sets the background with the family migration from England to Virginia in the 1700’s to Kentucky where Miller's grandfather owned a large property that was farmed and maintained by enslaved individuals. Eventually members of the family moved to Kansas, where Evylena was born, and on to Orange County California. It is in Santa Ana that this fledgling artist graduates from high school in 1906 and connects with other artists in the area and Laguna Beach, a town already growing its reputation as an artist community.
Graduating from Pomona College in 1910, she began teaching in the area and continued her artistic pursuits. Known for her landscape paintings, she exhibited for the California Art Club and around Riverside, California. In 1919 she traveled East to attend the Arts Students League in New York and Berkshire Summer School of Art in the Berkshires. In 1920 she accepted an opportunity to go to Tokyo for the World Sunday School Convention through her Presbyterian church. This opportunity became a turning point in her development as an artist and a rare opportunity to travel for young women in the early 20th century. She met and worked with important Japanese artists, and exhibited while in Japan. Upon leaving Japan she continued to travel throughout Asia, Europe, and England before returning to California two years later. She remained in California, teaching and continuing to paint and exhibit around the area. Excursions she took around the Southwest allowed her to continue to explore techniques and the beauty of the natural world.
Her time overseas is well documented through her journal and letters she wrote to her family and friends back in California. Due to the family history nature of the narrative, the details are lengthy and at times confusing. The inclusion of a brief timeline would allow the reader to easily identify where they are in the story. For the researcher looking for first hand accounts and exhibition notes on the background of the Southern California artists exhibiting around Laguna Beach and throughout Orange County in the 1920’s - mid 20th Century, this book is a great compilation of exhibits from the period. Upon her death, the family donated paintings and money to the Bowers Museum in Santa Ana intending a more permanent display and recognition of the artist and her work. Writing and publishing the book is another step the family has taken to see that she is remembered as the accomplished, prolific artist, teacher, and friend who traveled the world and brought the landscape to life on canvas.… (més)
“The Forgotten Artist” is a biography of Southern California based artist Evylena Nunn Miller (1888-1966). Completed by her great niece, it is as much a story of an artist finding her way in the early 20th century in the Southern California art scene as it is that of a documentation of family history during a time in America that saw the freeing of enslaved individuals, Westward expansion, and missionary work overseas.
The story begins decades before Evylena’s birth as the author sets the background with the family migration from England to Virginia in the 1700’s to Kentucky where Miller's grandfather owned a large property that was farmed and maintained by enslaved individuals. Eventually members of the family moved to Kansas, where Evylena was born, and on to Orange County California. It is in Santa Ana that this fledgling artist graduates from high school in 1906 and connects with other artists in the area and Laguna Beach, a town already growing its reputation as an artist community.
Graduating from Pomona College in 1910, she began teaching in the area and continued her artistic pursuits. Known for her landscape paintings, she exhibited for the California Art Club and around Riverside, California. In 1919 she traveled East to attend the Arts Students League in New York and Berkshire Summer School of Art in the Berkshires. In 1920 she accepted an opportunity to go to Tokyo for the World Sunday School Convention through her Presbyterian church. This opportunity became a turning point in her development as an artist and a rare opportunity to travel for young women in the early 20th century. She met and worked with important Japanese artists, and exhibited while in Japan. Upon leaving Japan she continued to travel throughout Asia, Europe, and England before returning to California two years later. She remained in California, teaching and continuing to paint and exhibit around the area. Excursions she took around the Southwest allowed her to continue to explore techniques and the beauty of the natural world.
Her time overseas is well documented through her journal and letters she wrote to her family and friends back in California. Due to the family history nature of the narrative, the details are lengthy and at times confusing. The inclusion of a brief timeline would allow the reader to easily identify where they are in the story. For the researcher looking for first hand accounts and exhibition notes on the background of the Southern California artists exhibiting around Laguna Beach and throughout Orange County in the 1920’s - mid 20th Century, this book is a great compilation of exhibits from the period. Upon her death, the family donated paintings and money to the Bowers Museum in Santa Ana intending a more permanent display and recognition of the artist and her work. Writing and publishing the book is another step the family has taken to see that she is remembered as the accomplished, prolific artist, teacher, and friend who traveled the world and brought the landscape to life on canvas.… (més)
Ressenya escrita per a Crítics Matiners de LibraryThing .This is a comprehensive monograph of Evylena Nunn (1888-1966); an early 20th century artist working in the California Scene painting style. Primarily a landscape artist, she supported herself by teaching.
The book is based on original sources (diaries, interviews). Well written, well edited, with exhausting footnotes and a variety of clippings from contemporary newspapers. A selection of color prints of her painting are at the end of the book.
I felt the first few chapters, which included a family history and the evolution of the book itself, would have been better at the end. She wasn’t forgotten as much as overshadowed by both the early 20th century European avant-garde art in Europe, and the amazing constellation of other American artists of the period: Diego Rivera, Edward Hopper, Salvador Dali, Man Ray, Ansel Adams, Frieda Kahlo and Dorthea Lang
I received this Early Review Copy from LibraryThing in exchange for an honest review.… (més)
The book is based on original sources (diaries, interviews). Well written, well edited, with exhausting footnotes and a variety of clippings from contemporary newspapers. A selection of color prints of her painting are at the end of the book.
I felt the first few chapters, which included a family history and the evolution of the book itself, would have been better at the end. She wasn’t forgotten as much as overshadowed by both the early 20th century European avant-garde art in Europe, and the amazing constellation of other American artists of the period: Diego Rivera, Edward Hopper, Salvador Dali, Man Ray, Ansel Adams, Frieda Kahlo and Dorthea Lang
I received this Early Review Copy from LibraryThing in exchange for an honest review.… (més)
Ressenya escrita per a Crítics Matiners de LibraryThing .I was excited to read a biography about an artist, and the book does contain a plethora of artwork; however, had I not gotten this book to review, I would have given in during the many times I was tempted to give up on it (Particularly her time in Japan). Frankly, the book reads like somebody giving a summary of a diary, and little attention is giving to context, the art world, or much else going on. What little interiority we get about Evylena is focused on her religious fervor and not her art.
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