Henrietta Mary Shore was a Canadian-born artist who was a pioneer of modernism.
20 Facts About Henrietta Shore
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Henrietta Shore lived a large part of her life in the United States, most notably California.
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Henrietta Shore was drawn to both painting and nature at a young age, remarking.
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Henrietta Shore's mother supported Henrietta Shore's artistic ambitions, but advised her to learn practical matters as well.
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Between 1900 and 1913 Henrietta Shore travelled back and forth between Toronto, Europe and New York.
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Henrietta Shore taught classes, had solo shows at galleries in Toronto and showed in group exhibitions in Paris, London and Liverpool.
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In 1913 Henrietta Shore moved from Toronto to Southern California, settling in Los Angeles and becoming part of a small but influential group of early West Coast modernists.
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Henrietta Shore showed work in juried exhibitions of the California Art Club to positive reviews.
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In 1916 Henrietta Shore was a founding member of The Los Angeles Modern Art Society along with Bert Cressey, Meta Cressey, Helena Dunlap, Edgar Kellar and Karl Yens.
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In 1920 Henrietta Shore moved to New York, working in a studio on West 57th Street.
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In 1923 Henrietta Shore returned to Los Angeles where she continued to work and exhibit.
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Henrietta Shore was his senior, 47 to his 40, and at that time a much more established artist.
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On Weston's urging, Henrietta Shore travelled to Mexico with her friend and fellow artist Helena Dunlap.
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Henrietta Shore's stay in Mexico most certainly influenced Shore's work, as can be seen in paintings like Women of Oaxaca in which a line of women in traditional Tehuantepec clothing carry black water jars on their heads.
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Henrietta Shore moved to Carmel-by-the-Sea, California in the late 1920s, then an important art colony and resort, following in the footsteps of Weston.
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Henrietta Shore painted four lunettes for the Santa Cruz Post Office: Fishing Industry, Limestone Quarry Industry, Artichoke industry, and Brussel Sprouts Industry.
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Henrietta Shore had to sell her Weston photographs to survive and became increasingly depressed.
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Henrietta Shore once gave the lodge owner, Allen Knight, a painting as her rent payment.
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Henrietta Shore died in 1963 at the age of 83 in a mental institution in San Jose, California.
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Henrietta Shore was included in Origins of Abstraction in Canada: Modernist Pioneers organized by the Robert McLaughlin Gallery in Oshawa in 1994.