Quote of the day
The acceptance that all that is solid has melted into the air, that reality and morality are not givens but imperfect human constructs, is the point from which fiction begins.
Gwen John

Born: June 22, 1876
Died: September 18, 1939  (aged 63)
Bio: Gwendolen Mary John was a Welsh artist who worked in France for most of her career. Her paintings, mainly portraits of anonymous female sitters, are rendered in a range of closely related tones.
Known for:
- Young Woman Holding a Black Cat (1920)
 - Interior with Figures (1899)
 - Girl Reading at the Window (1911)
 - Dorelia in a Black Dres (1904)
 






