Alive Still - Nell Blaine, American Painter

List of contents

• Prologue


• Chapter 1 Richmond


• Chapter 2 New York


• Chapter 3 Jane Street


• Chpater 4 Paris, Poets, and Poverty


• Chapter 5 A Taste of Success


• Chapter 6 Stricken


• Chapter 7 Love and Work


• Chapter 8 Travel and Turmoil


• Chapter 9 Carolyn


• Chapter 10 Gloucester


• Chapter 11 Keeping On


• Chapter 12 Alive Still


• Acknowledgements


• Notes


• Index

About the author

Cathy Curtis is the author of two previous biographies, Restless Ambition: Grace Hartigan, Painter, and A Generous Vision: The Creative Life of Elaine de Kooning. An alumna of Smith College and the University of California, Berkeley, she was formerly a staff writer at the Los Angeles Times. In 2018, Curtis was elected to a two-year term as president of Biographers International Organization (BIO).

Summary

In 1959, when thirty-seven-year-old Nell Blaine was an acclaimed young painter in New York, she contracted polio on a trip to Greece, rendering her a paraplegic. Remastering her painting skills, she became one of America's great watercolorists, with a rhythmic, colorful style that animated landscapes, city views, and still lifes.

Additional text

Alive Still is valuable beyond the singular life story it tells.

Product details

• Authors: Cathy Curtis, Cathy (President Curtis, Curtis Cathy
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.10.2019
• EAN: 9780190908812
• ISBN: 978-0-19-090881-2
• No. of pages: 326
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; ART / American / General, ART / Women Artists, Biography: arts & entertainment, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, History of Art, History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -, Individual artists, art monographs, Biography: arts and entertainment, Watercolours, Paintings and painting in watercolours or pastels