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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Gwen John
    sub title: strange beauties
  title info:
    title: Strange beauties
  name:
    name part: Stratton, Rachel
    role:
      role term: editor,
    role:
      role term: contributor.
  name:
    name part: Wood, Lucy
    name part: (Art museum curator)
    role:
      role term: editor,
    role:
      role term: contributor.
  name:
    name part: Zahra, Orin
    role:
      role term: contributor.
  name:
    name part: Birrell, Rebecca
    name part: 1991-
    role:
      role term: contributor.
  name:
    name part: Robins, Anna Gruetzner
    role:
      role term: contributor.
  name:
    name part: McLees, Fiona
    role:
      role term: contributor.
  name:
    name part: Anderson, Helena
    role:
      role term: contributor.
  name:
    name part: Elkin, Lauren
    role:
      role term: contributor.
  name:
    name part: John, Gwen
    name part: 1876-1939
    role:
      role term: artist.
  name:
    name part: National Museum Cardiff
    role:
      role term: host institution.
  name:
    name part: National Galleries of Scotland
    role:
      role term: host institution.
  name:
    name part: Yale Center for British Art
    role:
      role term: host institution.
  name:
    name part: National Museum of Women in the Arts (U.S.)
    role:
      role term: host institution.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: biography
  genre: exhibition catalogs.
  genre: Exhibition catalogs.
  genre: Catalogues d'exposition.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ctu
    date issued: 2026
    copyright date: 2026
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 271 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits ; 27 cm
  abstract: "The first comprehensive survey in 40 years brings new scholarly attention and a feminist perspective to the Welsh painter with a singular vision of female interior life. Gwen John (1876-1939), best known for her portraits of women depicted in close tonal registers, was overshadowed during her life by her relationships with men, including her brother, the painter Augustus John, and lover, the French sculptor Auguste Rodin. In recent years, leading art historians and curators have shed new light on John's significant contributions to British art, her connection to European modernism, and her serial process. Gwen John: Strange Beauties builds on this groundwork, bringing together the artist's distinctive oil paintings with rarely seen works on paper to illuminate the underexamined scope of her ambition, revealing lesser-known aspects of her practice--a vibrant use of color, plein air sketching, and an interplay between figuration and abstraction. This richly illustrated catalogue includes essays by curators Rachel Stratton and Lucy Wood, and a notable array of writers and art historians, including Helena Anderson, Rebecca Birrell, Lauren Elkin, Cecily Langdale, Fiona McLees, Anna Gruetzner Robins, and Orin Zahra." --
  table of contents: Introduction. Strange beauties / Rachel Stratton and Lucy Wood -- Canonizing John / Rachel Stratton -- Picturing learned women / Orin Zahra -- The nude / Rebecca Birrell -- God's little artist / Lucy Wood -- Looking and making / Anna Gruetzner Robins -- Practice on paper / Fiona McLees -- Writing the image / Helena Anderson -- Feminism and abstraction / Lauren Elkin -- Plates.
  note: edited by Rachel Stratton and Lucy Wood.
  note: Published in conjunction with the exhibition 'Gwen John: Strange Beauties' held at the National Museum Cardiff, February 7- June 28, 2026; National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh, August 1, 2026 - January 4, 2027; Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, February 18 -June 20, 2027; and the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC, July 30 - November 28, 2027.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: John, Gwen
      name part: 1876-1939
    genre: Exhibitions
  subject:
    topic: ART / History / General
  classification: ND497.J613 A4 2026
  classification: 759.2
  identifier: 9780300286571
  identifier: 0300286570
  location:
    physical location: POD
  record info:
    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 250621
    record change date: 20260418233903.4
    record identifier: in00005779125
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng