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- Département : Arts et Loisirs
Le 12/07/2005 à 09h51
Après avoir consulté plusieurs sources, le seul artiste peintre dont le prénom commencerait par un W. et dont le nom serait « Richards » est un artiste américain du XIXe siècle : William Trost Richards (1833-1905). A notre connaissance, il n’existe pas de peintre portant le même nom dont la nationalité serait anglaise, comme vous le stipulez dans notre question.
Concernant cet artiste, le dictionnaire critique et documentaire des peintres sculpteurs dessinateurs et graveurs délivre les informations suivantes à la page 659 du tome 11 :
« Richards, William Trost
Né le 14 novembre 1833 à Philadelphie. Mort le 8 novembre 1905 à Newport. XIXème siècle. Américain.
Peintre de paysages, marines, aquarelliste.
Il étudia dans l’atelier du peintre allemand Paul Weber et à l’Académie des Beaux-arts de Pennsylvanie avant de partir en Europe en 1853. Il travailla à Paris, Florence et Rome. En 1856, il s’installa à Germantown en dehors de Philadelphie et peignit des paysages aussi fidèles que possible. William Richards est un des premiers peintres américains qui adoptèrent le style préraphaélite. Sa précision, en ce qui concerne les paysages, le rattache à l’école de la Hudson River et aux Luministes. Ses paysages côtiers à l’aquarelle ont fait sa réputation. »
S’en suivent des exemples de signatures de l’artiste, un exemple de musée où une de ses œuvres est conservée : le Musée de Boston dont le site permets de consulter la quasi intégralité des œuvres de William Trost Richards conservées.
On peut enfin trouver une liste des nombreuses ventes publiques de 1880 à 1997 de ses œuvres.
Vous trouverez une notice biographique plus complète mais en anglais sur le Grove dictionary of art on-line. Ce dictionnaire en ligne contient 45000 articles concernant tous les domaines de l'art: peinture, architecture, sculpture, arts graphiques, arts décoratifs, photographie, de la Préhistoire à nos jours. Mis à jour régulièrement. Inclut the Bridgeman art library (35000 images) et de nombreux liens à d'autres sites (musées, galeries, etc.). Son accès est réservé aux utilisateurs de la Bibliothèque municipale de Lyon (accès à distance non disponible). De fait, vous ne pouvez pas accéder au lien direct avec cette notice biographique. Nous avons néanmoins extrait les informations suivantes :
«William Trost Richards (1833-1905)
(b Philadelphia, PA, 14 Nov 1833; d Newport, RI, 8 Nov 1905).
American painter. In 1846–7 he attended the Central High School in Philadelphia, PA, but left before graduating in order to help support his family. He worked full-time as a designer and illustrator of ornamental metalwork from 1850 to 1853 and then part-time until 1858. During this period he studied draughtsmanship and painting with Paul Weber (1823–1916) and probably had some lessons at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, where he exhibited in 1852. The following year he was elected full Academician there. In 1855–6 he toured Europe with William Stanley Haseltine and Alexander Lawrie (1828–1917), studying for several months in Düsseldorf. Finding contemporary European landscape painting less inspiring than that of America, he returned to Philadelphia.
Richards probably read the first two volumes of John Ruskin’s Modern Painters (London, 1843–6) during the 1850s, for soon after he began to show an interest in geological subjects and spent the summers sketching in the Catskills, the Adirondacks and the mountains of Pennsylvania. Striving for the fidelity to nature he had seen in Pre-Raphaelite painting in an exhibition of British art at the Pennsylvania Academy in 1858, Richards began to paint outdoors. In the 1860s he executed several highly detailed landscapes, such as June Woods (1864; New York, NY Hist. Soc.), and botanical studies. In March 1863 Richards was unanimously elected to membership of the Society for the Advancement of Truth in Art, an American Pre-Raphaelite organization. In 1862 he was made an honorary member of the National Academy of Design, New York, but he did not become a full Academician until 1871.
From 1868 to 1874 Richards summered annually on the East Coast. This inspired the partiality for coastal topography that persisted throughout his career. Characteristic of his handling of this theme are panoramic views of waves and uninhabited, wet beaches as in On the Coast of New Jersey (1883; Washington, DC, Corcoran Gal. A.). A luminist light, painted in harmonious, silvery tones, is reflected on the sand and the water. At first he treated these marine subjects as meticulously as his woodland views, but eventually his technique became broader. In the 1870s he developed his use of watercolour from delicate and transparent washes to opaque layers of gouache. From 1874 he exhibited with the American Water Color Society, and from 1875 to 1884 he sent approximately 185 watercolours to the Philadelphia collector George Whitney.
In 1879–80 Richards was in Europe, for he felt that his style was becoming old-fashioned and that he needed fresh subject-matter. Works from this period, many featuring the English coast (New York, Brooklyn Mus A.; see fig.), are tightly painted and opaque. When he returned to America in 1881, he built a summer-house in Newport, RI, that gave him ready access to the sea and made sketching out of doors in watercolour and oil convenient. Richards’s interest in capturing natural light and reflections can be associated with similar concerns of the Impressionists, but his handling was tighter and his palette more tonal; it is only in his oil sketches that an Impressionist freshness and luminosity occur. In 1890 Richards moved permanently to Newport and travelled between there and Europe. He remained active until the end of his life, painting both landscapes and seascapes.”
BIBLIOGRAPHY
William Trost Richards (exh. cat. by L. S. Ferber, New York, Brooklyn Mus., 1973)
L. S. Ferber: William Trost Richards (1835–1905): American Landscape and Marine Painter (New York, 1980)"
Dans la base de The bibliography of the history of art réalisée par Getty Research Institute et l'Institut de l'Information Scientifique et Technique du Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, on trouve de plusieurs références dans lesquelles William Trost Richards (1833-1905) est mentionné. Cette bibliographie est consacrée à l'histoire des beaux-arts, des arts décoratifs, de la sculpture et de l'architecture en Europe, en Amérique du Nord et du Sud, du IV siècle à nos jours.Elle recense des livres, des essais, des actes de congrès, des expositions, des catalogues de ventes, des articles issus de plus de 4000 périodiques. The Bibliography of the history of art inclut le Répertoire d'Art et d'Archéologie de 1973 à 1989 et l'International Repertory of the Literature of Art de 1975 à 1989.
Son accès est également réservé aux utilisateurs de la Bibliothèque municipale de Lyon (accès à distance non disponible). Nous avons cependant relevé les références suivantes en anglais :
- British drawings since 1945 in the Whitworth Art Gallery. / Hawcroft, Francis W. 20[40] p. : 41 illustrations; index; 65 works shown.
Résumé :Artists include Blake, Chadwick, Donagh, Gotlib, Hilton, Hockney, Hoyland, Lanyon, Mc Glynn, Minton, Paolozzi, Richards, Riley, Self, Sutherland, Tindle, Vaughan. Catalogue briefly outlines developments in British art since the 1930s, and the effects of World War II. (Staff, RILA, UK).
- Next to nature; landscape paintings from the National Academy of Design [Review of an exhibition catalogue] / Maddox, Kenneth W. Arts Magazine LV/5 (Jan 1981) 8.
- American artists in Düsseldorf; 1840-1865 / Gordon, Joy L. 52 p. : 42 illustrations; bibliography; biographies; 55 works shown.
Résumé : Paintings and prints by American artists who studied in Düsseldorf, 1840-1865. Presents works by 24 landscape, genre, and history painters including William Beard, Albert Bierstadt, George C. Bingham, Edward Custer, John W. Ehninger, James M. Hart, William S. Haseltine, George Hetzel, Alfred Howland, John B. Irving, Eastman Johnson, Alexander Lawrie, Emanuel Leutze, Trevor McClurg, Benjamin McConkey, Enoch W. Perry, William T. Richards, Peter Rothermel, Edwin White, Worthington Whittredge, Carl Wimar, Thomas W. Wood, Richard C. Woodville, Alexander H. Wyant. Catalogue contains an essay on the Düsseldorf Kunstakademie by Anneliese Harding, and a title essay and biographical sketches by Brucia Witthoft. (Brucia Witthoft).
- Before 1948 : American paintings in Georgia collections / Keyes, Donald D., contrib.. Athens : Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia, 1999. 123 p. : col. ill.; bibliogr. ref.
Réusmé : Produced in conjunction with the Georgia Museum of Art's celebration of its 50th anniverary as a public institution. Includes a short introductory essay by Donald Keyes describing the collection's history and in particular the place of founder Alfred Heber Holbrook. Also contains an essay, "Giving Way," by Terry Kay who reminisces about living in Georgia during the period before 1948 beginning with his childhood. Includes quotation from the author's own first novel, The year the lights came on, about the post-war years. Followed by a catalog of the exhibition which features landscapes, portraits, still lifes and other paintings in various styles. Artists represented are: Lamar Baker, Louis Betts, Ralph Albert Blakelock, John Bunyan Bristol, Theodore Butler, Mary Cassatt, George Cooke, Colin Campbell Cooper, Paul Cornoyer, Elliot Daingerfield, Joseph DeCamp, Lamar Dodd, Frank Duveneck, Ellen Thayer Fisher and Abbott H. Thayer, Sanford Gifford, Richard LaBarre Goodwin, Philip Leslie Hale, Hamilton Hamilton, Charles W. Hawthorne, Robert Henri, George Hitchcock, William Morris Hunt, Eastman Johnson, Nell Choate Jones, Lee Krasner, Leon Kroll, Ernest Lawson, John Marin, Alfred Maurer, Gari Melchers, Thomas Moran, Robert Emmett Owen, William Paxton, James Peale, Lilla Cabot Perry, William Trost Richards, Severin Roesen, John Singer Sargent, Henry Schnakenberg, Joseph Henry Sharp, John Sloan, possibly John Smibert, Lilly Martin.
Dans le Catalogue bn opale plus de la Bibliothèque nationale de France, une notice vient compléter ces références. Elle présente l’ouvrage suivant : “Tokens of a friendship : miniature watercolors by William T. Richards from the Richard and Gloria Manney collection : [an exhibition held at the Metropolitan museum of art, November 4, 1982, through January 16, 1983] / text by Lindi S. Ferber,. [Exposition. New-York. 1982-1983] ” / Metropolitan museum of art (New York). New York : Metropolitan museum of art, cop. 1982. 118 p. : ill. en noir et en coul., couv. ill. en coul. ; 28 cm.
Un autre exposition monographique sur cet artiste fut présenté en 2001 à nouvreau au Metropolitan Museum of Art. Vous pouvez consulter la page de présentation du catalogue de cette exposition intitulée "William Trost Richards in The Metropolitan Museum of Art" sur le site du Metropolitan Museum of art, New York. Sur ce même site, vous avez accès à une liste des oeuvres de William Trost Richards conservées dans ce musée.
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