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Blondelle Malone 1877-1951 American Oil Painting

Blondelle Malone (1877 - 1951) South Carolina California. Original oil on board painting. Depicts a landscape view of Villa d' Orleans Palermo Italy. She was considered a personal friend of Mary Cassatt and mentored by Claude Monet. She was a student of John Twachtman and William Merritt Chase. Signed dated 1913 and titled lower right. Artwork measures approximately 12" x 16". Frame measures approximately 17" x 21". Good condition with wear to the gold gilt frame. Hill Auction Gallery in house USA domestic continental shipping $125 plus insurance.

Blondelle Malone (US/South Carolina, 1877-1951)

Blondelle Octavia Edwards Malone (American/South Carolina, 1877-1951), "Parknasilla, Ireland", oil on wood panel, signed and titled lower right, sight 20-1/2" x 27-1/2". Matted, glazed and framed. One day I was out in the fields and there was a peculiar mist rising from the ground, different from anything I had ever seen, and then I knew how Corot had come to paint that wonderful soft atmosphere in his paintings. -- Blondelle Malone. Malone was an American Impressionist who specialized in luminous, light-drenched landscapes. Born into a prosperous, artistically inclined family in Georgia, she spent most of her childhood in Columbia, South Carolina. At the age of 15 she enrolled in Converse College in Spartanburg, where she excelled in French, art, and music. In 1897, she convinced her parents to allow her to move to New York where she attended the Arts Students League and studied with such acclaimed artists as William Merritt Chase and John Henry Twachtman. She eventually followed Twachtman to Cos Cob, Connecticut, where she spent a summer painting and studying at the vibrant art colony. In 1940, Malone embarked on a comprehensive tour of Europe and Asia. Through a fortuitous combination of talent, charm, and perseverance, Malone was able to establish friendships with many of the most promising artists of the day, including Mary Cassatt, Auguste Rodin, and the notoriously taciturn Claude Monet; the last not only agreed to review her work, but also gave her almost unprecedented access to his garden. Her time in France had a profound effect on her painting style, and she was to continue to incorporate the techniques she learned there into her work throughout her life. Malone exhibited widely while in Europe, including at the American Art Students' League, Societe Nationale des Beaux-Arts, Salon d'Automne, the Royal Academy in London, and had a solo exhibit at the Lyceum Club in Paris. The work presented here is one of several that Malone completed of the Irish countryside. It is documented in her letters, now conserved at the Caroliniana Library of the University of South Carolina, that she was commissioned by the art collector William Nash to paint several Irish landscapes. It is possible that this painting was a part of that commission. References: Pennington, Estill Curtis and Severens, Martha R. Scenic Impressions: Southern Interpretations from the Johnson Collection, University of South Carolina Press: Columbia, 2015.; Ellis, Roy, The Life and Work of Blondelle Malone, The State, Columbia, South Carolina, July 1, 1956.

Blondelle Octavia Edwards Malone

American, 1877-1951 LILY POND Signed and inscribed indistinctly Blondelle Malone...(lr) Oil on canvas 21 x 31 inches

Blondelle Octavia Edwards Malone

American, 1877-1951 WILD HYACINTHS Signed Blondell (lr) Oil on canvas 24 x 30 1/8 inches

BLONDELLE OCTAVIA EDWARDS MALONE (American 1879-1951) "Balustrade, Howath Castle, Ireland 1914" Watercolor on paper Signed lower right "Blondelle Malone". Verso bears inscription, title, number and date. 12"x16"