For the English playwright, see Gwen John (playwright).
Gwen John
Self-Portrait (1902)
Born
Gwendolen Mary John
(1876-06-22)22 June 1876
Haverfordwest, Wales
Died
18 September 1939(1939-09-18) (aged 63)
Dieppe, France
Nationality
Welsh
Education
Slade School of Art Académie Carmen
Known for
Portraiture, still life
Family
Augustus John (brother) Caspar John (nephew) Tristan de Vere Cole (nephew) Amaryllis Fleming (niece) Gwyneth Johnstone (niece) Vivien John (niece)
Patron(s)
John Quinn
Gwendolen Mary John (22 June 1876 – 18 September 1939) was a Welsh artist who worked in France for most of her career. Her paintings, mainly portraits of anonymous female sitters, are rendered in a range of closely related tones. Although in her lifetime, John's work was overshadowed by that of her brother Augustus and her mentor and lover Auguste Rodin, awareness and esteem for John's artistic contributions has grown considerably since her death.
considerably since her death. GwenJohn was born in Haverfordwest, Wales, the second of four children of Edwin William John and his wife Augusta, née Smith...
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23 July 1969) was best known as a model for the Welsh artists GwenJohn and Augustus John, was the common-law wife of the latter, and has been credited...
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of the 2021 HBO Max docuseries, The Way Down: God, Greed, and the Cult of Gwen Shamblin. She is portrayed by actress Jennifer Grey in the Lifetime movie...
May 2022. The exhibition coincided with the publication of Letters to GwenJohn, a new book by the artist published by Jonathan Cape and New York Review...
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best-selling book The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama. Gwen Ifill was posthumously awarded the Dunnigan-Payne Prize for lifetime career...
Massey, a Governor General of Canada, and her godfather was film director John Ford. Although she had no formal training at either drama school or in repertory...
was held. John also spent time in Paris with her aunt, the artist GwenJohn, during this period. During the Second World War, Vivien John served as a...
attendees like Elizabeth Taylor, Andy Warhol, Bianca Jagger, Diana Ross, Elton John, Liza Minnelli, Madonna, Barbra Streisand, and Cher intermixing with the...
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introduced to the Welsh artist, GwenJohn, who modelled for him and became his lover after being introduced by Hilda Flodin. John had a fervent attachment to...