#Académie Julian

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Tyra Kleen (March 29, 1874 - 1951) was a Swedish artist, writer, Bohemian figure and well-traveled adventurer and ethnographer. She studied art at a half-dozen different Academies and art-schools in Karlsruhe, Munich and Paris in the 1890s. From 1897 she lived in Rome and kept a studio there for about a decade. During that time she published a novel, under the pseudonym of “Isis”, about Bohemian life in Rome.

Later she traveled extensively in the Orient and produced drawings and book illustrations inspired by the cultures she experienced, usually in a Symbolist, art nouveau style.

Here is Orientalisk Parfym, 1907 - drawing

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Alson Skinner Clark. Part 1.

Alson Skinner Clark. Part 1.

Alson Skinner Clark Alson Skinner Clark was an American Impressionist painter known for his landscape paintings and his murals, including at the Carthay Circle Theatre in Los Angeles and the First Trust and Savings Bank in Pasadena.  He was also an ardent photographer.  He was born on March 25th 1876 in Chicago, Illinois, to Alson Ellis Clark and Sarah Clark.  He had two brothers, Mancel and…

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Henry Ossawa Tanner (June 21, 1859 – May 25, 1937) was an American artist who spent much of his career in France. He became the first African-American painter to gain international acclaim.[1] Tanner moved to Paris, France, in 1891 to study at the Académie Julian and gained acclaim in French artistic circles. His painting Daniel in the Lions' Den (1895, location unknown) was accepted into the 1896 Salon, the official art exhibition of the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Tanner's Resurrection of Lazarus (1896, Musée d'Orsay, Paris) was purchased by the French government after winning the third-place medal at the 1897 Salon. In 1923, the French government elected Tanner chevalier of the Legion of Honor.

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David Wood 

Charcoal Nude life drawing 1908.  

Little is known of the artist David Wood. A highly talented draughtsman, the studio stamps and dates indicate that he attended the famous Académie Julian in Paris around 1911-12.

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American artists in Paris

In 1877, a year after his arrival in Paris at the Académie Julian, Thomas Wilmer Dewing, 1851/1938 presented to his masters Gustave Boulanger and Jules Lefebvre "The Sorcerer's Slave"

Full-length study of a nude painted after a living model in a well-posed contrapposto. Wilmer takes care of the anatomical details of the young model in a non-significant setting but with accessories justifying the title. The waving branch above the smoking casserole, the remains of a gazelle and the scattered skins recall the orientalist themes of Boulanger and Lefebvre.

However, another American artist Walter Gay 1856/937 was also in Paris at the same time, studying in the studio of Léon Bonnat, 1833/1922.

It was there that he created Nude Figure of a Boy, around 1877, a figure of the same subject, in the same pose but seen from behind.

  Léon Bonnat used to hire a different model every Monday for the whole week, Walter Gay's boy, dark and older than Dewig's blond boy who presumably took occasional lessons from Léon Bonnat.

Along with John Singer Sargent, 1856/1925 also took occasional lessons with Bonnat in 1874/78 where he met Walter Gay, beginning a lifelong friendship.

John Singer Sargent, Two Nude Boys and a Woman in a Studio Interior, 1878/79

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THIS DAY IN GAY HISTORY

based on: The White Crane Institute's 'Gay Wisdom', Gay Birthdays, Gay For Today, Famous GLBT, glbt-Gay Encylopedia, Today in Gay History, Wikipedia, and more … May 10

c.308. BC – Little is known of Theocritus, the first great voice in the homoerotic pastoral tradition. He appears to have been born in Sicily in the late fourth century B.C, and to have lived both at the court of Ptolemy Philadelphius (patron of the great poetic school of Alexandria) and in Syracuse, where he is reputed to have died around 240 B.C

His significance for gay literary history resides in the fact that five of his thirty Idylls map the emotional and poetic terrains of intense—especially frustrated—homosexual desire that later poets would explore in greater detail.

For example, "Hylas" (Idyll 13)—one of the most famous homosexual lyrics of the ancient world—subverts the traditionally heroic values of Greek poetry by noting how even Hercules could not resist loving a beautiful boy, "golden-haired Hylas," who drowned when, trying to fetch water for his lover, he was pulled down by the nymphs of the stream who fell in love with him and wanted to keep him as their own. Hercules, unable to save his lover, lapses into madness in his grief. For Theocritus, love's power is stronger than the physical might of even the greatest hero.

"For a Boy" (Idyll 29) warns a beautiful young man who scorns the speaker's love that he too will age and his beauty lose its freshness. Thus, if he does not "show more kindness" and "return the love of a man who is true" now when he is young and lovable, no one will show him any affection later when he himself is old and desperate for a beautiful young man's attention.

The speaker of "For Another Boy" (Idyll 30), who finds himself falling in love again after a particularly painful experience, knows full well that "as a man grows old, / he should steer himself clear of the love of young boys." Love, however, answers him that the only alternative to loving a boy is to cease to exist.

His Idylls are the source of a homoerotic pastoral tradition that includes Virgil's second eclogue, Spenser's Shepherd's Calendar, and Barnfield's Affectionate Shepherd, as well as anticipates the homoerotic confusion in the Forest of Arden in Shakespeare's As You Like It, Milton's "Lycidas," and possibly even Whitman's Calamus poems.

1866 – Léon Bakst (d.1924), Born as Lev Samoilovich Rosenberg, was a Russian painter and scene- and costume designer. He was a member of the Sergei Diaghilev circle and the Ballets Russes, for which he designed exotic, richly coloured sets and costumes.

At the young age of twelve, Léon won a drawing contest and decided to become a painter, but his parents did not really take a shine to it. After graduating from gymnasium, he studied at the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts as a noncredit student, because he had failed the entry, working part-time as a book illustrator, though, he would eventually be admitted into this institution in 1883.

At the time of his first exhibition (1889) he took the surname of "Bakst," based on his mother's maiden name. The surname "Rosenberg" was thought to be too Jewish and not good for business.At the beginning of the 1890s he exhibited his works with the Society of Watercolourists. From 1893 to 1897 he lived in Paris, where he studied at the Académie Julian while still visiting Saint Petersburg often. After the mid-1890s he became a member of the circle of writers and artists formed by Sergei Diaghilev and Alexandre Benois, which later became the Mir Iskusstva art movement.

In 1899, he co-founded with Sergei Diaghilev the influential periodical Mir Iskusstva, meaning "World of Art." His graphics for this publication brought him fame.

Beginning in 1909, Bakst worked mostly as a stage-designer, designing sets for Greek tragedies, and, in 1908, he made a name for himself as a scene-painter for Diaghilev with the Ballets Russes. He produced scenery for Cleopatra (1909), Scheherazade (1910), Carnaval (1910), Narcisse (1911), Le Spectre de la Rose (1911), L'après-midi d'un faune (1912) and Daphnis et Chloé (1912). During this time, he lived in western Europe because, as a Jew, he did not have the right to live permanently outside the Pale of Settlement. During his visits to Saint Petersburg he taught in Zvantseva's school, where one of his students was Marc Chagall (1908–1910).

Bakst died on the 27th of December 1924, in a clinique in Rueil Malmaison, near Paris, from lung problems, (oedema). His many admirers amongst the most famous artists of the time, poets, musicians, dancers and critiques, lead him to his final resting place, in the Cimetiere des Batignoles, in Paris, during a very moving ceremony.

1952 – Robert Triptow, born in Salt Lake City, Utah, is a writer and "the last of the underground cartoonists." His 1989 anthology Gay Comics is one of the earliest histories of the subject, and won the first Lambda Literary Award for Humor.

As a cartoonist, Triptow's contributions to Howard Cruse's Gay Comix began with issue #2. He succeeded Cruse as editor of Gay Comix, from issue #5 (1984) through issue #13 (1991).

As a journalist, Triptow has contributed to The Advocate, Bay Area Reporter, Frontiers, The Sentinel, and other West Coast gay publications.

1961 – Born in Whangarei, New Zealand, Blyth Tait, son of a horse breeder, won his first two of four world equestrian games gold medals at twenty-nine and his first two of four Olympic medals two years later at Barcelona in 1992. That year he topped the world standings at #1, a position he held for almost all of the 90s.

At the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, Tait won a gold in individual eventing and a bronze with his team. Returning to the Olympics in Sydney in 2000, he was given the honor of bearing New Zealand's flag in the opening ceremony's parade of global athletic hotness, which for the first time included his partner Paul O'Brien, also on the equestrian team. Horribly, days before his competition Tait's horse died suddenly in quarantine, his back-up horse was rendered lame, and he failed to medal.

At the Athens Olympics in 2004, he ranked fifth. After several years in retirement, he tried to win a spot on the New Zealand for the 2012 London Olympics. In the history of New Zealand Olympians, he ranks fourth in total medals earned.

He resides at the property he owns with his long-term partner Paul O’Brien in Karaka, south of Auckland.

1962 – The California Supreme Court overturns the sodomy conviction of a man caught by police in a public restroom by use of a peephole drilled into the roof.

1974 – Quentin Elias (d.2014) was a French singer, actor and model. Of Algerian heritage, he was the original lead singer of the French boy band Alliage with Steven Gunnell, Roman Lata Ares and Brian Torres from 1996 to 1999. After his departure from the group, he relocated to the United States where he developed a solo singing career singing in English and French, releasing a number of albums, EPs and singles through his company Quentin Elias Music and distribution by Electro Boy Inc Records.

In New York hereleased the single "Always the Last to Say Goodbye", produced by Christian Moeyaert. He also performed at local gay venues and events such as Splash Bar, and Tom of Finland events.

He also worked as a model, acted in a number of feature films, television series and on stage and was featured in a number of advertisements. He took part in documentaries notably The Adonis Factor appearing on the documentary's promotional cover. He was active in body training, tattooing, in photography and in active blogging of his progress, all the while releasing more materials online.

He was briefly involved in solo adult maturbation appearances on the Randy Blue gay male site under the pseudonym Q. He made a comeback in France starting in 2011, appearing in a number of tours, made new releases for the French and European markets, including remakes of earlier Alliage hits and had a number of appearances on popular French reality television shows and on talk and entertainment shows talking candidly about his past. On 25 February 2014, Elias died at his home in New York City.

1990 – On this date OutRage!, a United Kingdom direct action group is formed. OutRage! is a direct action campaigning group in the United Kingdom which was formed to fight for what they saw as the rights of Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual people. It is a radical group which has frequently been criticised for being extremist; members have been arrested on some OutRage! actions. For a time in the mid-1990s, some OutRage! actions were perceived as being a version of outing, where Gay activists assert the alleged private homosexuality of public figures as part of a political campaign.

Marc Hall and his prom date JP Dumond

2002 – On this date Canadian Gay teenager Marc Hall won an injunction permitting him to bring his boyfriend to his prom.

Marc Hall v. Durham Catholic School Board was a 2002 court case in which Marc Hall, a Canadian teenager, fought a successful legal battle against the Durham Catholic District School Board to bring a same-sex date to his high school prom. The case made Canadian and international headlines.

Marc Hall v. Durham Catholic School Board began when Oshawa, Ontario's Monsignor John Pereyma Catholic Secondary School asked students attending the prom to submit the names of the guests they intended to bring. Hall, who is gay, submitted the name of his 21-year-old boyfriend, Jean-Paul Dumond, and was denied on the grounds that homosexuality is incompatible with Roman Catholic teaching.

Supported by his family and a wide variety of community organizations, Hall thus took the school board to court in a two-day hearing that began on May 6, 2002. Hall's lawyer, David Corbett, argued that the denial of his request violated the Ontario Education Act, which requires school boards in the province not to discriminate. The school board, on the other hand, argued that court interference in its decision would amount to denying its religious freedom.

Corbett argued that an organization that accepts public funding (Catholic school boards in Ontario are fully funded in the same manner as public schools) has to be accountable to the same laws (including anti-discrimination laws) as other public institutions. The school board's lawyer countered that Section 93 of the Canadian constitution protects the Catholic board's rights to conduct its affairs in accordance with Catholic teaching.

In addition, Corbett noted that while extramarital sex is also contrary to Catholic teaching, the school board had previously allowed pregnant, unmarried students to attend the prom.

On May 10, Justice Robert McKinnon granted an interlocutory injunction ordering that Hall be allowed to attend the prom with Dumond. The justice also ordered that the school would not cancel the prom. Hall attended the Prom with Dumond that evening.

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Marie Bashkirtseff (Ukrainian, 1858-1884): The Académie Julian (1881) (via AWARE Women Artists)

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Hovsep Pushman - Nude Study, Académie Julian

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"The Meeting"  Maria Konstantinovna Bashkirtseva  (1858 – 1884)

I wanted to present a painting by a female Russian artist who painted during the 19th - 20th Century (this is the time frame where we dwell the most in our exploration of Russian/Imperial History.) I should not have been surprised that there were not many...they were just starting to emerge.

 Maria Konstantinovna Bashkirtseva was born in Gavrontsi near Poltava, Russian Empire (now Ukraine), to a wealthy noble family. She studied painting in France at the Robert-Fleury studio and at the Académie Julian, which was one of the few establishments that accepted female students at the time.

Bashkirtseff would go on to produce a remarkable, if fairly conventional, body of work in her short lifetime (she died of tuberculosis at age 26), exhibiting at the Paris Salon as early as 1880 and every year thereafter until her death (except 1883). In 1884, she exhibited a portrait of Paris slum children entitled The Meeting, which has become her most famous painting. Most of her work was destroyed during WWII.

Interesting note:

From approximately the age of 13, Bashkirtseff kept a journal, and it is probably for this that she is most famous today. It has been called "a strikingly modern psychological self-portrait of a young, gifted mind", and her urgent prose remains extremely readable. She was multilingual and, despite her self-involvement, was a keen observer with an acute ear for hypocrisy, so her journal also offers a near-novelistic account of the late nineteenth-century European bourgeoisie.(gcl)

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A Study for Competition at the Académie Julian, Paris Brian Hatton (1887–1916) Hereford Museum and Art Gallery

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Stephan Ussing (June 16, 1868 - 1958) was a Danish regional artist who kept returning to the city of Ribe where his family came from. Ussing had studied at the Royal Academy under Vermehren, Exner and Bache, and had also attended Zahrtmann’s school and Académie Julian in Paris.

Above: Parti fra Ribe, 1929 - oil on canvas (Ribe Kunstmuseum)

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The Coiffure

The theme of a woman at her toilette was a common one for male artists of the 19th century for whom it presented the opportunity to depict the female nude—historically considered an essential aspect of artistic practice. For a woman artist to address the subject transgressed social norms of the period. Women were not permitted to attend the illustrious École des Beaux-Arts until 1897, and even at the Académie Julian, which opened to women in 1868, they were not permitted to draw from nude models. Cassatt's answer to the rules of decorum was to suggest the setting of a bourgeois house, rather than the settings her male contemporaries preferred—such as the Turkish bath or the brothel. In her description of the female body, Cassatt relied upon the stylized elegance of her Japanese prototypes, thereby abstracting the nudity of her model. (Mary Cassatt, 1890–91)

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Clementine-Hélène Dufau (1869 - 1937)

Nu au bord de la méditerranée c1930

French painter decorative artist, poster designer and illustrator.

Clémentine-Hélène took lessons from William Bouguereau (1825-1905) and Tony Robert-Fleury (1837-1911) at the Académie Julian

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Mary Ursula Whitlock, Woman Knitting, ca. 1900, watercolor on ivory, sight 3 3⁄4 x 2 7⁄8 in. (9.5 x 7.3 cm) rectangle, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Bequest of Mary Ursula Whitlock, 1945.3.1

#bornonthisday Mary Ursula Whitlock (Great Barrington, MA 1860 - died Riverside, CA 1944) studied at the Art Students League in New York, and also trained in Paris at the Académie Julian.

She moved to Riverside, California, in the 1930s, where she remained for the rest of her life.

About the artwork: In Woman Knitting the muted grays and blues of the painting complement the informal setting and relaxed pose. Although painted at the turn of the century, the sitter is shown dressed in a cap and shawl reminiscent of the 1800s. Via Smithsonian

#MaryUrsulaWhitlock #WomanKnitting #watercolor #art #artherstory #artbywomen #womensart #palianshow

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Maria Catharina Wiik (1853-1928) - Self-portrait

Pencil heightened with white on paper. 21.7 x 15.75 inches, 55 x 40 cm.

Estimate: SEK 30,000-40,000.

Sold Uppsala Auktions, Uppsala, Sweden, 14 June 2023 for SEK 30,000 + B.P.

When she left Helsinki for Paris in 1875, Wiik enrolled at the Académie Julian in Rue Vivienne, the only art school in the capital to accept women (the Beaux-Arts kept them out until 1897).

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The Scottish painter Francis Cadell (1883- 1937) grew up with wealth and privilege and by age of 16 was in Paris attending the Académie Julian, absorbing the French avant-garde of the day. Returning to Scotland, he would exhibit his work in Edinburgh, Glasgow and London.