See another great biography at http://jlwcollection.com/jlwcollection.com/Henrietta_Shore.html Born Jan. 22, 1880, in Toronto, Canada. Shore began painting at 13 ... While in London she continued at the Heatherly Art School, and was the only private pupil of John Singer Sargent who greatly influenced her work. After arriving in Los Angeles in 1913, she became active in the local art scene and was a founder of the Modern Art Society. She maintained a studio in Los Angeles until 1920 and then led a peripatic existence: Newfoundland (1920), Maine (1921, NYC (1920-23), Mexico 1927-28), and San Francisco (1928-29). Shore was internationally known when an invitation to exhibit brought her to the Monterey Peninsula in 1930. After establishing a studio in Carmel, she remained and continued painting. Penniless, her last few years were spent in the State Mental Hospital in San Jose, CA where she died on May 17, 1963. Her early works were realistic but matured into impressionist and semi-abstract forms. Her visual repertoire includes landscapes, figure studies, portraiture, and floral still lifes. Robert Henri hailed her as one of the great women painters of her time. (http://macfarlanecollection.com/product/henrietta-shore-clivia/) Recent exhibitions have linked Shore to other “underrated” women modernists, and to Georgia O’Keeffe. Clivia represents the most admired phase of Shore’s art and demands comparison to the work of photographer Edward Weston.The 2 were friends, and the influence went both ways. Clivia is not a still life nor an allegory nor a too-obvious surrogate for genitals. It is nature made monumental and strange. As Weston wrote of Shore: “When she paints a flower she IS that flower.” In the 1920s Shore was as famous as Georgia O’Keeffe. Late in life she was so broke she had to sell her Weston photographs to survive. Shore was utterly forgotten by the time of her death. http://blogs.artinfo.com/lacmonfire/2016/09/19/huntington-buys-a-henrietta-shore/ undefined

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