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Frances Hammell Gearhart (1869-1959)
American artist🎨 & printmaker
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MIA: Prints and Drawings (Bot) @miaprintsdrawings.bsky.social · Oct 10

Untroubled Waters https://collections.artsmia.org/art/126888/

landscape image of wooded shoreline; six silhouettes of trees dispersed across foreground; shoreline edged with rocks extends along left portion of background; large tree covered hill extends upwards behind shore; body of water along lower right quadrant; strip of land in upper right quadrant along horizon; pale green and yellow gradated sky
Spending most of her career teaching high school English history, Frances Gearhart had summers free to visit her vacation home at Big Bear Lake in the San Bernadino mountains, just 90 miles from her Pasadena home. That’s undoubtedly the spot depicted in Untroubled Waters, one of her most famous prints. Gearhart first printed the lighter woodblocks, including the pinkish rock forms, dusty blue outlines, and pale blue lake. Then she added a dramatic black screen of pine trees, creating the illusion that we have suddenly come upon a hidden idyll that few are privileged to see. She was unique among California color block printmakers, who had their heyday in the 1920s and 1930s. Her thick oil paints and emphasis on the “key block,” the darkly inked block that carries the outlines, produced a sense of majesty and depth rarely equaled in American printmaking.

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Frances Hammell Gearhart (1869-1959)
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Windonthewater @windonthewater.bsky.social · Nov 8

Frances H. Gearhart

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Frances Hammell Gearhart (1869-1959)
American artist🎨 & printmaker
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Meri Pas Blanquer @meritadocta.bsky.social · Nov 25

Art: Frances H. Gearhart

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Frances Hammell Gearhart (1869-1959)
American artist🎨 & printmaker
#FrancesHammellGearhart #FrancesGearhart

Saskia W. @saskiaw.bsky.social · Oct 20

Frances H. Gearhart (1869-1958) is considered a pioneer of color printmakers in the USA. Gearhart obviously loved the California landscape. No other artist working in color block prints has ever done a better job of portraying both its serene and stark beauty, its images finely drawn and striking.

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Frances Hammell Gearhart (1869-1959)
American artist🎨 & printmaker
#FrancesHammellGearhart #FrancesGearhart

Valentine @valent6228.bsky.social · Oct 1

Low Tide (1930) - Frances Hammel Gearhart

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