Artwork of the Week!! Sunday, June 16, 2024 is by Augusta Rathbone (1897-1990), "Self Portrait;" oil painting on panel, ca 1935.

Artwork of the Week!! Sunday, June 16, 2024 is by California artist Augusta Payne Rathbone (1897-1990). A work featured for sale in our current gallery exhbition:"WITNESS : Women Artists Depict Women...,"

Self Portrait; is an oil painting by California painter/printmaker Augusta Payne Rathbone (1897-1990), done around 1935, painted on a panel. The painting is initialed "AR" in the lower right corner. The image and support measure 17 x 14-1/8 inches.? The gallery inventory number for this painting is AR595. This modernist self-portrait by Augusta Payne Rathboneis available from the gallery for purchase.

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Augusta Rathbone portrays herself in oils, using broad brushstrokes reminiscent of the Fauves and Impressionists, particularly Pierre Bonnard, with whom she briefly studied at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière in Paris. It was this very style that her mentor Norah Hamilton recognized as a good fit for the printmaking medium, a prophetic observation that led Rathbone to create her largest body of work using etching and aquatint.

Using chartreuse and plums, Rathbone portrays herself in the fashionable colors of the time but without unnecessary frills, and giving herself a distinctly sober expression – belied slightly by the addition of wine-red lipstick.

While in Paris in 1927, Augusta Rathbone was introduced to printmaking and thereafter worked primarily in color aquatint combined with line etching. Rathbone, who had studied briefly with Bonnard, uses a freely drawn black etched line to capture rough shapes which are then filled with color, using aquatint. She worked with Monsieur Porcabeuf, a professional printer in Paris, who would prove her prepared plates. In the 1930s she traveled the French Riviera and her color palette adapted to the colorful villages throughout the region.

Rathbone produced twenty color aquatints of the French Riviera and around 1938 she joined forces with Juliet and Virginia Thompson to create the illustrated book, French Riviera Villages, which was published that year by Mitchell Kennerly. Twelve of Rathbone's original color aquatints were reproduced mechanically by photography and then hand colored with pochoir. Juliet Thompson photographed the villages and Virginia Thompson wrote a history on each village. Rathbone's aquatints are a modernist homage to these ancient villages.

To purchase this work, see other works in inventory, or read a biography for Augusta Payne Rathbone use this link to our website: https://www.annexgalleries.com/inventory?q=rathbone

Use this link to view our complete inventory on our website: https://www.annexgalleries.com/inventory?q= On June 1, 2024, The Annex? Galleries opened a sales exhibition from inventory by women artists pertaining to the lives of women. Representing a broad range of styles, mediums, and genres, the works illuminate the many in which women have explored their private realms without the burden of the male gaze, focusing on friends, family, and strangers, on the surreal and the spiritual, and on the freedom of art for art's sake.

?In recent years, the art world has seen drastic changes in its attitude toward artists who've been relegated to "minority" status: women, people of color, the LGBTQ+ community, and more.?For fifty-three years?the Annex Galleries has observed these?changes, and have been fortunate to contribute to the conversation.

With our show Witness: Women Artists Depict Women, we will feature?works by women from?the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries from our inventory.?This curation?focuses?on women?as seen by their peers, the images intimate, personal, unexpected,?and without?the burden of the male gaze.

Ranging from the known (Imogene Cunningham, Bertha Lum, K?the Kollwitz, etc.) to the nearly forgotten or unknown, this exhibition includes original fine prints, drawings, paintings, and photographs from the late 19th to the early 21st centuries. Ranging from Surrealism to Figurative, from Impressionist to Post Modernist, we've curated a diverse range of imagery to illuminate the story of women in the arts as well as in the world.Hope you can make it into the gallery, if not please check out the exhibition on-line.