Author: Isabelle Gapp
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Workshop – The Circumpolar World, 1850-1940: From Scandinavia to North America
I finally get to put this date in my diary! It’s all coming together, and looks set to be a really exciting event. Both daunting and thrilling that all of these ideas are starting to manifest and come together. It will be a wonderful afternoon of scintillating conversation and discussion surrounding the art and culture…
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Trailing Tom Thomson – Oxtongue River & Algonquin Park
This post has been sat in draft form for god knows how long! But it is something I have really wanted to write about so here goes… So a slight detour from the usual Scandinavian obsession, to write about something a little different, but also a large part of my PhD – Canadian landscape painting.…
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Turner & the Whale – Icebergs and Glaciers
Something short and sweet to end the year on! At the end of October, I presented a paper at the Hull Maritime Museum as part of a symposium organised in association with the Turner & the Whale exhibition, curated by my supervisor and another one of his PhD students. This paper has now been uploaded…
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Scandinavian Art & Scandinavian Studies
So it’s been a while since I last wrote anything – turns out it’s actually been around seven months now. Oops! It’s been a busy half-year, with more writing carried out than I thought possible, and yet still not enough. In addition to reading and collating the material required for the first chapter of my…
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Exhibition Review: “Josef Frank Patterns: Furniture – Painting”
As part of an Anglo-Swedish Society organised event, I made a visit the Josef Frank exhibition currently being staged at the Fashion and Textile Museum in London. Undertaken in association with Millesgården in Stockholm – the home, now museum, of the sculptor Carl Milles – this is the first instance his textiles have been exhibited in…
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The Kalevala: Akseli Gallen-Kallela & National Romanticism
Most of my research at the moment is concerned with exhibitions, and rather than writing another post on exhibitions at this point, I thought I would take a different route, and bring you a brief insight into National Romanticism in the art of Finland towards the end of the 19th century… “The runes of Kalevala…
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At Home & Abroad: The Swedish Artist Colony
In her book, ‘Rural Artists Colonies in Europe, 1870-1910’, Nina Lubbren looks at why thousands of artists during the nineteenth-century up and left the urban capitals of Europe and instead chose to live and work in the countryside. This was indeed the case for the Scandinavian artist, not only abroad but at home as well. Focusing on…
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1912: Scandinavian Art Comes to America
You don’t realise how quickly time has passed by until you open your diary and January is over, and February has begun. At the beginning of last month I officially started my PhD (glutton for punishment). So I thought that part of my blog would become a way of introducing little elements of my research,…
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Exhibition Review: The Legacy of the Ancher’s, Skagen Museum
The exhibition Arven fra Anchers, or The Legacy of the Ancher’s, is currently on show at the Skagen Museum, and provides a superb insight into the artistic process of both Michael and Anna Ancher, as well as the impact an artistic upbringing had on their only child Helga. Upon entering, it is Michael Ancher’s Girl…
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Mini Exhibition Review: “Flesh” at York Art Gallery
Ok, so yes this has absolutely nothing to do with Scandinavian art, unless you consider York’s Viking history, but that’s just a roundabout and convoluted way of justifying the inclusion of a mini-review on an exhibition to do with Flesh currently on show at York Art Gallery. I’m including this here as it is something I…
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