Artwork of the Week!! Sun, Jan 15, 2023, is by Cora May Boone (1871-1952): (Still Life with Magnolia); watercolor, ca. 1920, unique. $900.00

The Artwork of the Week!! Sunday, January 15, 2023, is by California woman painter/printmaker Cora May Boone (1871-1952).

(Still Life with Magnolia...) is a watercolor done around 1920 by Modernist artist/teacher Cora Boone (1871-1953). The image and paper measure 14-1/4 x 11-1/8 inches and is signed with pigment by the artist in the lower right image. It was painted on an ivory wove watercolor paper adhered to a heavy paper board. This painting is illustrated in St. Gaudens/Schiffer, Emerging from the Shadows, Vol. I pg. 82. The gallery inventory number for this work is 18559.

This watercolor by American woman modernist artist Cora May Boone (1871-1953) is available from the gallery for $900.00. Contact the gallery with any condition or other questions.

Shipping costs will be discussed. California residents will have sales tax added. Out of state residents may be responsible for use tax, depending on state law.Cora Boone is best known for the single-block woodcut technique she learned from Blanche Lazzell in Provincetown around 1920 and taught it to other artists and teachers in California. Boone was also an accomplished watercolorist, studying with Leonard Richmond between 1912 and 1913 at the Central School of Arts & Crafts in London and with Scottish painter/printmaker Jacobina "Jeka" Kemp in Paris.

Cora Boone approached this composition like it may have been a design for a future white-line woodcut, separating the areas of color with heavy black lines, like a stained glass window. Had this been done on a block the black lines would have been cut away, leaving the uncut areas separated from each other, ready to be colored using brush. The vase of magnolias pushes the limits of the composition, extending to or beyond the edges, adding to the simple drama of the work. This painting is illustrated in St. Gaudens/Schiffer, Emerging from the Shadows, Vol. I pg. 82.

When working with the somewhat temperamental medium, so different from the rigidity of her other favored medium, white-line color woodcut, she was never afraid to douse the paper with color in order to manipulate the pigment for its intended effect: to evoke a mood without becoming distracted by minute detail.

Cora May Boone, teacher, watercolorist, enamellist, and printmaker, was born in St. Louis, Missouri to James O. Boone and Sarah Elizabeth (Simms) Boone on 18 November 1865. The Boone family tree proves her to be a direct descendant of the American pioneer Daniel Boone. The Boone family moved to California in 1870 settling in the community of Contra Costa near San Francisco. In the 1890s Boone studied at the Mark Hopkins Institute in San Francisco.

Boone returned to California from studying in Europe and was hired full time in August 1913 by in the Oakland Public Schools, a position she held until she retired in 1935. During her teaching career in Oakland she served as Supervisor of Art in the Secondary Schools. She also taught art in public schools in Danville and Benicia, California and was a member of the faculty of the University of California Berkeley for the summer of 1917.

About 1920, Blanche Lazzell taught Boone the techniques of the 'white-line woodcut' also known as the Provincetown technique or the one-block woodcut. Boone's imagery included florals and figures and were highly decorative. She taught white-line color woodcut technique to other art teachers, including William Seltzer Rice who also excelled in the technique.

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