Hortense Gordon: Passover Seder 50s/ Canadian Expressionism Oil/ Painters Eleven
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Hortense Gordon: Passover Seder 50s/ Canadian Expressionism Oil/ Painters Eleven:
$3490.00
HortenseGordon
1886 - 1961, Hamilton, Canada
The Passover Seder Table
Original Hand-SignedOil on Canvas -
circa the early 1950\'s
Artist Name:HortenseGordon
Title: The Passover Seder table
Signature Description: Hand-signed lower right
Technique: Oil on canvas
Size:27 x41 cm / 10.63\" x 16.14\" inch
Frame:Unframed
Condition: Good
Artist\'s Biography:Hortense Mattice Gordon was a Canadian abstract painter born in Hamilton, Ontario in 1887.
Before joining the Painters Eleven Hortense taught art at a Hamilton high school, studied and exhibited regularly.
At age 67 Hortense was the eldest member to join the Painters Eleven. Professionally she was known as both an Abstract Expressionist painter and a technical teacher.
She remained artistically active in the Hamilton and Toronto area for over 30 years.
Born into a moderate wealth, Hortense was the youngest daughter of Sarah Louise Crompton and James Harvey Mattice.The family lived on Catharine street in Central Hamilton and encouraged their children to paint and draw. While still in public school, Hortense attended Saturday morning art classes at the Hamilton Art School and received a scholarship for her efforts.
Hortense spent a large portion of her childhood creating art in the shadow of her elder sister Marion Mattice (1878 - 1956). Although there was a large age difference between the two, the girls were known to be in fierce competition with each other and would often not get along.
After her father\'s retirement in 1903, Hortense chose to leave Hamilton to live with relatives on a 200 acre fruit farm nearChatham, Ontario. It was here where she began to study and paintchinawith her cousins. Realizing this was a marketable skill, she decided to rent a studio to sell her unique china pieces and teach art to locals. She held her first exhibition of china from December 14–16, 1908 at the Hotel Sanita (presently the Chatham Cultural Centre). For a number of years, Hortense was a passionate and well-connected teacher who was known to aggressively seek out exhibition opportunities for herself and her students. She was well regarded not only for her china works but also a steadily growing portfolio of Canadianlandscape paintings.
In 1916, Hortense\'s father died in Hamilton. When she returned for the funeral, she was approached by John Gordon, who suggested she consider teaching at the Hamilton Art School. She joined the staff in October 1918 and after being courted by Gordon for a number of years, the two were married on 3 August 1920. The married couple often traveled to Europe in the summers, where Hortense was inspired by theBarbizon Schooland other European masters. Her landscape works developed an increasingly soft, loose paint handling style and a sense of spontaneity.
Later life and the Painters Eleven
For almost four decades, Hortense painted landscapes and still life almost exclusively.However, after the death of her husband in 1940, Hortense\'s style became much less inhibited.
She studied at theCranbrook Academy of Artbetween 1941 to 1945 with famedabstract expressionistHans Hofmann. Hofmann\'s influence and friendship pushed her to abandon strictrealismand explore non-objective painting. She began to paintcubist-inspired works with jutting angles, linear forms and energetic movement.
This style gained her recognition on a national scale. She was named honorary president of the Contemporary Artists of Hamilton in 1948 and soon after joined thePainters Elevenas their oldest member in 1952.Through this collective, she was inspired to create morenon-objectiveart and she was given the opportunity to participate in high profile exhibitions in New York and Toronto. She was made a member of theRoyal Canadian Academy of Arts.
Hortense spent the last decade of her life painting countless works and showcasing her works in diverse galleries across Ontario. She was forced into the hospital with emphysema and a heart condition in 1961, and died on 6 November 1961.
Select exhibitions
· 1994: The Robert McLaughlin Gallery (retrospective)
· 1993: Thames Art Gallery (retrospective)
· 1961: Gallery Moos, Toronto
· 1954: Windsor Art Gallery
· 1952: Philips Gallery, Detroit
· 1928: Norman C. Maynard, Hamilton
Selected collections
· National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
· The Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa
· Thames Art Gallery, Chatham
· Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton
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Hortense Gordon: Passover Seder 50s/ Canadian Expressionism Oil/ Painters Eleven:
$3490.00