GENERAL DESCRIPTION
Born in Toronto, the majority of Henrietta Mary Shore’s artistic training was acquired in the United States, most significantly under Robert Henri in New York. Shore recognized her deep connection to nature in her early teens while still living in Toronto, Canada. Her determination to express that spiritual connection through paint was the impetus for study with some of the best artistic practitioners of the day, including William Merritt Chase and Robert Henri in New York, and John Singer Sargent in London. Immigrating to the United States in 1913, she became an active participant in the California art scene and exhibited both nationally and internationally. She remained independent in her search for true expression, fighting external pressures to be grouped with any “school” or “ism.” From 1920 to 1923 she took up residence in New York, where she developed her modernist style, and quickly established a reputation for her intellectual, semi-abstracted paintings that “distilled the universal ‘spirit harmony’ or ‘life rhythm’ underlying natural things.” When her semi-abstractions debuted in a New York gallery in January of 1923, they were widely discussed by critics who compared them with—and at times preferred them to—works by Georgia O’Keeffe then on view at another gallery across town.
Adapted from
Sue Canterbury, DMA Label text, 2015.
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General Description full citation: Sue Canterbury, DMA Label copy (2015.24.FA), August 2015.
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General Description
Born in Toronto, the majority of Henrietta Mary Shore’s artistic training was acquired in the United States, most significantly under Robert Henri in New York. Shore recognized her deep connection to nature in her early teens while still living in Toronto, Canada. Her determination to express that spiritual connection through paint was the impetus for study with some of the best artistic practitioners of the day, including William Merritt Chase and Robert Henri in New York, and John Singer Sargent in London. Immigrating to the United States in 1913, she became an active participant in the California art scene and exhibited both nationally and internationally. She remained independent in her search for true expression, fighting external pressures to be grouped with any “school” or “ism.” From 1920 to 1923 she took up residence in New York, where she developed her modernist style, and quickly established a reputation for her intellectual, semi-abstracted paintings that “distilled the universal ‘spirit harmony’ or ‘life rhythm’ underlying natural things.” When her semi-abstractions debuted in a New York gallery in January of 1923, they were widely discussed by critics who compared them with—and at times preferred them to—works by Georgia O’Keeffe then on view at another gallery across town.
Adapted from
Sue Canterbury, DMA Label text, 2015.
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General Description full citation: Sue Canterbury, DMA Label copy (2015.24.FA), August 2015.
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