Artwork Title: Self Portrait

Self Portrait, 1917

Thérèse Schwartze

Artwork Title: Self PortraitArtwork Title: Self Portrait
...Moes dwells at length on her friendship with Thérèse Schwartze, who was 5 years her senior. The two had met in 1880... Wally Moes saw this influence in her companion: Thérèse’s energy and her fierce instinct for survival could have guaranteed success in whatever profession she had chosen, wherever she had pursued it. Thérèse has not a grain of that quasi-artistic, limp self-indulgence… She automatically keeps herself at full stretch as long as it is time to work; she never gives up, and can’t see any benefit to be gained from listening to the sound of her own voice and analyzing her own feelings in vacuous self-pity… she never wastes an opportunity to exploit her talents to the full, or to strengthen her position and calling as a portrait painter… If painting had not been in her blood, she would have undertaken something else and made a success of it with the same conviction and passion. [http://nosmokingmedia.com/features/therese-schwartze-painting-for-a-living-art-history/]
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