Quote of the day
We must have religion for religion's sake, morality for morality's sake, as with art for art's sake…the beautiful cannot be the way to what is useful, or to what is good, or to what is holy; it leads only to itself.
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)






