Month: July 2018

Mary Dawson Elwell (previous married name Mary Dawson Holmes, born Mary Dawson Bishop) was a British painter active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. She was married to painter Frederick William Elwell, and her work is sometimes overshadowed by his. Contemporary searches bring up little biographical information on her. The best source I’ve…

Thomas Paquette is a painter I’ve written about several times previously, and whose work I find particularly appealing. Paquette’s approach is fascinating in several ways: his bold and daring compositions, his expressive brushwork, his use of naturalistic and expressionistic color — often within the same painting — and his unconventional treatment of edges. Paquette brings…