John Quinn (collector)
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John Quinn was an Irish-American cognoscente of the art world and a lawyer in New York City who fought to overturn censorship laws restricting modern literature and art from entering the United States
John Quinn by John Butler Yeats, 1908
Photograph of works in a Quinn estate auction, New York, 1927
Vincent van Gogh, 1887, Self-Portrait, oil on canvas, 41 × 33.5 cm, Wadsworth Athenaeum, Hartford, CT
Georges Seurat, 1888, Les Poseuses, ensemble, oil on canvas, 39.4 × 48.7 cm, Henry P. McIlhenny Collection, Philadelphia Museum of Art
Gwen John
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Gwendolen "Gwen" 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
John Quinn (collector)
…began, his interests shifted across the English Channel to works by Manet, Camille Pissarro, and Pierre Puvis de Chavannes. He was the patron of artist Gwen John, supporting her financially from 1911 until his death. He bought most of the works that she sold. He began to buy traditional paintings, drawings…
Self-Portrait (1902)
Vase of Flowers (c. 1910s)
Mère Poussepin, c. late 1910s, Barber Institute, Birmingham
The Convalescent (c. 1923–1924), one of ten versions she painted of this composition