#Francis Hodgkins

[irishgop]

Portrait of Frances Hodgkins, Cedric Morris, Oil on Canvas, 1928 (Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki)

She arrived in London in the spring of 1901 at the age of 32. By June she was sketching in Normandy before decamping to Paris and Italy. Hodgkins became an incessant traveler including within England and the British Empire, among the Low Countries, around the Mediterranean as well France on the Continent, and eventually The United Stares; who embraced “en plein air” sketching and painting.

As World WR I consumed continental Europe, Hodgkins settled in the village of St.Ives, Cornwall, having given up on a studio in Kensington which she had leased but found cold and cramped. She leased it to Cedric Morris and his friend Lett-Haines. They were the first of numerous English artists drawn into her circle. Ten years later Morris would paint the portrait of Hodgkins posted here. A year earlier Morris had introduced Hodgkins to Ben Nicholson, an abstract artist who had assumed the leadership of the Seven & Five Society of avant-garde artists in 1926, and began frequenting St.Ives in Cornwall in 1928.

Hodgkins would join other preeminent artists like Winifred Nicholson, Barbara Hepworth and Henry Moore in the Seven & Five Society. She exhibited her work in the Society’s 10th and 11th exhibitions and with the Society in their 1932 showing at the Leicester Gallery in London.

In 1938 her only lithograph, “An Arrangement of Jugs,” was produced and published by the Curwen Press of Plainfield, East London along with images done by Duncan Grant, Vanessa Bell, and John Piper. Kenneth Clarke, Director of the National Gallery in London had her exhibit at the British Pavilion of the 1939 NEw York World’s Fair, and subsequently she was invited to show at the 22nd Venice Biennale alongside Duncan Grant, Edward Wadsworth, Frank Dobson, Glyn Philpot, and Alfred Munnings.

In November of 1946, six months before her death, 64 of Hodgkins’ paintings and 17 drawings were shown in a critically acclaimed retrospective at the Lefevre Gallery. Francis Hodgkins passed away in May of 1947.

[Abstracted from writing by Jonathan Gooderham & Richard Wolfe, and edited by Grace Alty.]

[official-moomin]

INTRODUCING: The Voice Actors for Moominvalley (2019)'s adaptation of Moominpappa's Memoirs! 🤩

We here at Moomin Characters have heard your pleas for an adaptation of Moominpappa's Memoirs, and we are pleased to announce the voice actors we have chosen!

We have casted Freddie Robertson as Hodgkins, who you may know from critically acclaimed children's film Jacques and the Golden Wool (2018)! ⛵

Singer-songwriter Kasper Thomas is making his debut as a voice actor this year as fan-favorite Joxter! You may know him from his songs used in many commercials, such as the beloved jingle for Darterton's Motors and the composer of the background music in games such as AlienQuest 3 (2005) and Elsethere (2017)! 🐱

Former child actor Francis Hunt will be playing Muddler! He is famous for playing the main character, S.J., in the 2003 series School of Sorbet! 🥫

We are ecstatic to announce our new voice actors and we know you've been waiting for a long time to hear about them! We hope you'll love them just as much as we do! 💙

[lboogie1906]

Dr. William Warrick Cardozo (April 6, 1905 - August 11, 1962) physician and pediatrician, was a pioneer investigator of sickle cell anemia and a leader in medical research of problems affecting people of African descent.

He was born in DC, his father, Francis Cardozo, Jr., was a high school principal, and his grandfather, Francis Cardozo, was a prominent DC area politician and educator. He attended Hampton Institute. He earned his AB and MD at Ohio State University. He was awarded a two-year fellowship in pediatrics at Children’s Memorial Hospital and Provident Hospital in Chicago. This was the beginning of his research on sickle cell anemia. With the aid of a grant from Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, he published a pioneering study “Immunologic Studies in Sickle Cell Anemia” in the Archives of Internal Medicine.

His findings in sickle cell anemia concluded that the disease was largely familial and inherited. He discovered that it was found almost exclusively among people of African descent. Further research concluded that not all people having sickle cell were anemic, that sickle cell disease wasn’t always fatal, and that no successful treatment had been found. His findings are still valid to this day.

He started his private practice in DC. He was appointed part-time instructor in pediatrics at Howard University College of Medicine and Freedmen’s Hospital. He was promoted to clinical assistant professor and clinical associate professor of pediatrics.

He studied and published research on children’s gastrointestinal disorders, Hodgkin’s disease, and the early growth and development of black children. He served for 24 years as a medical inspector for the DC Board of Health. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence #alphaphialpha

[romanticchemacademic]

I was reading about Francis Crick and James Watson’s discovery of DNA in 1953…and admiring Santiago’s beautiful drawings of neurons…and Alan Hodgkin et Andrew Huxley’s mathematical discovery of calculating how action potentials propagates along a neuron…I couldn’t help but think how romantic it all is. To me it’s so interesting learning about the process of discovery. It’s incredible because all these people were just like us—students. It’s romantic because it’s human—a human experience—an insatiable thirst for knowledge, curiosity that knows no end. A perseverance to succeed. The ultimate quest to generate a novel idea before anyone else does. How can anyone say that science is not poetic? Science is poetry written in a different language, an esoteric one at that. But poetry nonetheless.

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[pope-francis-quotes]

9th December >> (@RomeReports) #PopeFrancis #Pope Francis. In 2015, 10 days before Elaine turned 15, she was diagnosed with Hodgkin's lymphoma, a cancer of the lymphatic tissue.

Make-A-Wish Foundation found out her story and decided to help her fulfill a wish. She asked to meet Pope Francis, along with her two parents and younger sister.

ELAINE “Three years ago I got sick and was given the opportunity to make a wish, through Make-A-Wish. I wanted to come to Italy, to the Vatican, to see the pope. This is because he is a very important figure, who has inspired others, especially the youth. I thought it would be a tremendous experience to remember for the rest of my life.”

Make-A-Wish is a foundation that fulfills the dreams of children between the ages of three and 18 who have a serious illness. Last year, it fulfilled more than 15,300 wishes, an average of one every 34 minutes.

ELVIRA SCHETTINO Make-A-Wish Foundation “We fulfill their wishes, everything they want we try to fulfill.” “Make-A-Wish is international. It operates in 33 countries around the world. It was started in the United States. Here in Italy, the headquarters are located in Genoa. From Genoa we work all over the country.”

MICHELLE GONZÁLEZ Elaine's Mother “It grants wishes to children who have had a serious illness or who have been at risk of dying. The child's primary physician refers the case to Make-A-Wish. The organization then grants a wish to the child for having suffered his or her condition or illness. This is why we are here today.”

Elaine was receiving chemotherapy for four months. A year later, the doctor announced the disappearance of the signs and symptoms of cancer. Her next wish was to meet the pope and today her two dreams have come true.

ELAINE “The pope came out and went by chair-by-chair greeting and shaking hands with everyone. We were able to talk to him, everyone gave him gifts. We gave him a Puerto Rican hand made gift.”

Elaine will soon graduate from high school and her next dream is to be a doctor to help heal people from their illnesses, just as doctors did for her.

[upsmagazine]

Taking Sickert Seriously - FAD Magazine

Taking Sickert Seriously – FAD Magazine

Jack and Jill, 1937-8 Who was the greatest British painter of the 20th century? Plenty, I suppose would make a case for David Hockney, Lucien Freud, Howard Hodgkin and Stanley Spencer. I’d rank Paul Nash, Eric Ravilious, Ben Nicholson, Patrick Caulfield and Frank Auerbach higher, but I suspect few would share my view. Perhaps that leaves the most plausible candidates as Francis Bacon, Bridget…

[globefan]

Deaf Heritage on twitterk (@Deafheritageuk) highlighting the history of deaf actors performing Shakespeare :

In 1886, Hamlet was performed by deaf actors to “an audience of some 600 persons, most of whom were deaf-mutes...” - with Francis Ross Maguire as Hamlet; manager Frank Hodgkins (https://bit.ly/2OoiPeG ) and interpreter Ernest J D Abraham (aka ‘Mr St Clair Clarmonte’)

And deaf people were performing Shakespeare’s plays before this. In 1865, Henry IV was performed by deaf pupils of Manchester Institution for the Deaf & Dumb (Punch, 30 Dec 1865)

[kulabata]

Wagonjwa

De afgelopen dagen hadden we weer een bonte verzameling aan patiënten op de afdeling. Vooraan de zaal ligt weer eens een diabetespatiënt. Zijn naam is Morisson. In tegenstelling tot veel van zijn lotgenoten, is Morrisson prima geïnformeerd over zijn ziekte. We hoeven hem geen dieetadvies te geven en hij kan al insuline spuiten, dus ik hoef alleen zijn medicatiedosis aan te passen. Het enige wat fijn zou zijn, is als hij thuis zelf zijn suiker zou kunnen meten. Dat vindt hij nog wel erg ingewikkeld, jezelf prikken en dan meten op zo’n elektronisch apparaatje. Gelukkig heeft hij wel toegang tot de meer ‘traditionele’ methode. Als Morrison denkt dat hij hoge suikers heeft, plast hij buiten tegen een boom. Als de urine zo zoet is dat er dan mieren op af komen of de koeien gaan eraan likken, dan weet hij dat de bloedsuikers inderdaad hoog zijn, en spuit hij nog wat extra insuline.

Op het bed ernaast ligt Francis. De beste man heeft een ongeluk met zijn piki piki gehad. Een mooie kans om onze ludieke campagne in de praktijk te brengen. We vragen hem of hij misschien een veiliger alternatief weet voor de piki piki? Hij kijkt ons even twee tellen glazig aan, waarna de blik oplicht en hij zegt: ‘Een koe!’ Frankie zweert dat hij het hem niet heeft ingefluisterd, dus de campagne begint zich blijkbaar te verspreiden. We kunnen ook niet meer door de gangen van het ziekenhuis lopen zonder door het personeel toegeschreeuwd te worden. Acha pombe, endesha ng’ombe!

Halverwege de dag worden we gebeld door Bugando. We betalen voor de behandeling van Jefferson, de jonge patiënt die we verdenken van Hodgkin lymfoom, en ondanks het feit dat we geen familierelatie hebben, geldt: wie betaalt, bepaalt. Dus krijgen we alle uitslagen doorgebeld waarvoor we de rekeningen hebben voldaan, en krijgen we zo’n drie keer per week statusupdates over zijn voortgang. In Bugando kunnen meer labtesten worden gedaan dan bij ons, en elk daarvan laat slechte uitslagen zien. Hopelijk geven ze hem goed te eten en niet alleen medicijnen, want als hij niet aansterkt, gaat hij de chemotherapie die hij nodig heeft niet overleven.

Op de Intensive Care wordt John, een jonge herder van vijftien jaar binnengebracht. John ligt in coma, lijkt te hebben gebraakt en heeft een hele lage hartslag. De eerste reactie van alle dokters is: die heeft zijn geiten op andermans grond laten grazen en is uitgebreid op zijn hoofd geslagen, mogelijk met schade aan de hersenstam. De familie vertelt echter dat hij thuis buiten bewustzijn is geraakt, en er zijn helemaal geen uitwendige verwondingen aan hem te zien. Bij het lichamelijk onderzoek valt op dat er een vreemde, chemische geur rondom John hangt. Al snuffelend en sniffend komen we erachter dat John deze geur uitademt uit de Mayo tube die zijn luchtweg open moet houden. Als ervaringsdeskundige wordt dokter Chris erbij geroepen. Hij neemt een klein snufje van de ademlucht en zegt gelijk: organofosfaten. Dit landbouwgif wordt door herdersfamilies gebruikt om af en toe de koeien mee in te sprayen, omdat het goed werkt tegen teken, maar is ook uiterst effectief als zelfmoordmiddel. Waarschijnlijk heeft John hiervan gedronken om een einde te maken aan zijn leven. We vragen de familie om de verpakking mee te nemen, zodat we kunnen zien welk middel het is, maar dat is niet heel bijdragend – het gevaarlijke gif wordt in waterflessen afgevuld vanuit een grote tank ergens in het dorp. Dat John het echter per ongeluk zou kunnen hebben opgedronken is onmogelijk, de penetrante geur, die nota bene vanuit zijn maag komt, verspreidt zich over de hele intensive care.

Er is veel familie van John aanwezig. Het meest in het oog springt de man in volledig uniform van pizzaketen Papa John’s. Het zou mooi zijn als dit ook daadwerkelijk John’s vader was, want ouders worden in de regel aangeduid met de naam van hun oudste kind. Zo zijn Maud en Kees respectievelijk mama Lou en baba Lou. Papa John zou dan baba John zijn, maar bij navraag geeft hij aan niet de vader te zijn - op zich al bijzonder, want iedereen heeft een stuk of zes vaders en moeders, dus de kans was vooraf best groot. Zijn uniform is afkomstig uit de grote bulkimport van kleding uit Westerse landen waar de Afrikaanse markt mee wordt overspoeld. In veel gevallen heeft de drager geen idee wat erop staat. Zo loopt er iemand in het dorp rond met een T-shirt van Pietersen Installatietechniek. 

Ondanks de grote opkomst van John’s familie, krijgen we maar heel beperkt informatie over wat er gebeurd is. Zelfmoord is behoorlijk taboe in Tanzania. Dan maar op proef behandelen. Gelukkig heb ik voor vertrek voor dit soort gevallen een cursus Advanced Hazmat Life Support gedaan, waar deze specifieke vergiftiging uitgebreid aan bod is gekomen. De behandeling is symptomatisch met ampullen atropine om de bloeddruk op peil te houden, soms wel twee weken totdat het lichaam de effecten van het gif heeft gecompenseerd. En zijn casus beschreven waarbij er tienduizenden ampullen atropine nodig zijn geweest om iemand in leven te houden. Navraag in de ziekenhuisapp leert dat wij 41 ampullen hebben. Laten we hopen dat het voldoende is.

[franziska-linnea]

Francis Hodgkins

[scientific-women]

Click through for illustrations and research articles written by each of these women!

Shirley Ann Jackson

American physicist Shirley Ann Jackson was the first African-American woman to earn a doctorate at MIT, and the second African-American woman to earn a doctorate in the U.S. Dr. Jackson was Chairman of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) from 1995 to 1999. She is currently the president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Françoise Barré-Sinoussi

Françoise Barré-Sinoussi is a French virologist who was fundamental in identifying the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) as the cause of AIDS. She won the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for this discovery. She is the director of the Regulation of Retroviral Infections Division at the Institut Pasteur.

Vera Cooper Rubin

Vera Cooper Rubin, an American astronomer, made important discoveries about galaxy rotation rate, which provided evidence of the existence of dark matter. She was the second woman astronomer ever to be elected to the National Academy of Sciences.

Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin

Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin was a British chemist who determined the structure of penicillin in 1946, and the structure of vitamin B12, the most complex of all the vitamins, in 1956. She won the 1964 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing protein crystallography, a method of determining protein structures. She was able to make all of her discoveries despite a lifelong battle with rheumatoid arthritis.

E. K. Janaki-Ammal

E. K. Janaki-Ammal, an Indian botanist, conducted research in cytogenetics (the study of chromosomes and inheritance) and phytogeography (the study of the geographical distribution of plants). In an age when most Indian women did not pursue high education, she earned her PhD from University of Michigan in 1925 and did notable work in her field. Her research in sugarcane led to better cross-breeds of sweeter variety.

Jane Goodall

Jane Goodall is a British primatologist, ethologist, and anthropologist. She is is best known for her 55-year study of wild chimpanzees in Gombe Stream National Park, Tanzania. She founded the Jane Goodall Institute and the Roots & Shoots program, and has revolutionized the way people interact with and think about chimpanzees.

Rosalind Franklin

English chemist Rosalind Franklin was a pioneer in the use of X-ray diffraction, taking the picture of the “B” form of DNA on a machine she herself refined, that was used by Francis Crick and James Watson(without her permission) to identify the structure of DNA. Franklin has since been recognized as a major contributor to the discovery of the structure of DNA. She also made important contributions to the understanding of the molecular structures of coal and viruses.

[jillianleeadamson]

I'm a little late to my homework this week because my stepson is visiting and as a result, I've been driven everywhere on this wee isle in under 48 hours.

Howard Hodgkin - lowecase meh

Michael Craig Martin - meh. Too flat

Mark Rothko - Once upon a time, I worked at a coffee shop... A guy I worked with who was a bit of a jerk burnt his arm very badly on boiling hot coffee. I told him that his wound looked like a Rothko. I think that might be the only Rothko I ever liked.

Peter Doig - meh

Patrick Caulfield - meh... Question: If Patrick Caulfield and Michael Craig Martin were to have a joint exhibition, would we be able to tell their work apart?

Henri Matisse - I like some of his work. I prefer his paintings. I've always found his collages amazingly meh.

Clyfford Still - Yes. Finally work on this list that I like. His paintings look like abstract nightmares. This isn't a bad thing.

Albert Irvin - I like these... A bit too much cadmium red going on in his pallette, IMO but I like the marks.

Patrick Heron - Love this work.

Gary Hume - no.

Paul Gauguin - Did he cut off Van Gogh's ear with a sword? Was he anywhere near as amazing? No. Not even close. Why was Van Gogh so infatuated with Gauguin? I think my favourite Gauguin was actually a Scott Seekins... Seekins is a well-known Minneapolis, MN artist who does things like work in the style of someone else, but paints himself into the paintings. I wish I could find an image of it, but he painted himself into a nearly perfect replica of a Gauguin... I think it was one of his Tahitian paintings, but I can't remember. I saw it at the Minneapolis Institute of Art back in the early 2000's, I think. Either way, I liked Seekins' painting more than Gauguin's original because there was a sense of humor to it.

Andy Warhol - I do rather like a lot of Warhol's work. I also really quite like his early illustrations.

Bridget Riley - Op art hurts my brain.

Chris Ofili - middling yes?

Friedensreich Hundertwasser - Love, love, love Hundertwasser

André Derain - I've never been a huge fan of Fauvism, but I do like Derain's work.

John Hoyland - I'm not too sure about the paintings he did in the 60's, but I'm liking the work he did from the 1970's onward.

Raoul Dufy - This is making me rethink my general dislike of Fauvism. Maybe it's just a dislike of Matisse?

Barbara Rae - I really like these, especially the bright colours.

John Bellany - I really like his paintings. I especially like his painting at the City Art Centre in Edinburgh. I love his people.

George Seurat - Seurat's work is just so cool. I'm not terribly keen on his subject choices most of the time, but the style is so neat. Also, the fact that he developed both pointillism and chromoluminarism is pretty goddamned awesome.

Jim Lambie - I suspect that this work might make me physically ill.

Pierre Bonnard - I have easily spent over three days (cumulatively) staring at Bonnard's 1913, "Dining Room in the Country." It was easily my most favourite work at the Minneapolis Institute of Art. It's the piece I make a beeline to. I spend time with this painting every chance I get. The last time I was at the MIA, I spent over an hour looking for it, only to discover that was not on display. My friend Sam, a security guard at the museum, says it's still not back in the gallery where it was for years. This makes me very sad.

Kees Van Dongen - Me likey.

Adrian Wisniewski - Once I sorted out the misspelled name (I was getting images of American football uniforms)... Meh

Maurice de Vlaminck - i like these.

Richard Diebenkorn - boring.

R B Kitaj - I like some, dislike others. Prefer his drawings over his paintings. I'm again reminded that I've not read a Philip Kerr book yet.

Francis Cadell - Meh. Boring.

Ken Done - not my cuppa, but I bet my sister, Rachael, would love his work.

Samuel Peploe - i like these.

Van Gogh - duh... Love Van Gogh.

[alora-may-blog]

Francis Hodgkin's post modern metaphor of herself as seen above is made up of her favourite items forming an identity in their own without her face being shown. This exaggerates my point that my self portraits are a fragment of myself, even if they were just junk lying around they decorate are my own decorations.

[taashiparis-blog]

Francis Hodgkins

I went to Francis Hodgkins during the holidays. I love her wide range of works and her story. It's something I can connect to. The amount of travelling she did and the way she documented it through her works is really inspiring, it really brings back memories because we have been to some of the same places. I love her use of colours and palates. Her works really capture the emotions of the places she has been and transport the audience there.

[tiandiding]

Promontory, Brittany

Roderic O’CONOR 

Victor Pasmore

Red Abstract No 5

Victor Pasmore’s experiments with material, colour and form led him to treat his paintings like sculptures. His use of modern, everyday materials like plywood was a move away from traditional marble or bronze and an attempt to avoid the materials symbolizing or representing anything but themselves.

Relief Construction

‘Picasso torpedoed Cezanne, Rembrandt and the whole blinking lot’

After World War 2 Victor Pasmore began to make Abstract work. He had been inspired by Paul Klee and the Bauhaus, as well as Picasso and began to explore form and colour, treating his art like a science, his studio like a laboratory.

Pasmore used new materials such as Perspex in his Constructions to make his forms float.

Sir Howard Hodgkin

Robyn Denny and Katherine Reid

Howard Hodgkin paints representational pictures of emotional situations, often featuring his friends. Painting around the edge of the panel, Hodgkin has created a box-like enclosure that suggests a room. He layers surface pattern to blur the depth of the image as if we are viewing through a window or doorway.

Francis DANBY

Sunset at Sea after a Storm

Cornelis de ZEEU

Portrait of a Young Man

Art Nouveau glass

Art Nouveau was an influential style in the visual arts which developed in 19th century Europe. It is found particularly in the applied arts, graphics and illustration and was inspired by nature. Characteristic are sinuous curving forms and line. Painting styles such as Symbolism shared close ties with Art Nouveau.

Émile Gallé was one of the most important French glass designers and an outstanding exponent of Art Nouveau. He worked particularly with cameo glass. This technique involves building up two or more layers of different coloured glass and then cutting away the layers to create the design.