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Constance Frederica Gordon-Cumming

Constance Frederica Gordon-Cumming (1837 - 1924) was active/lived in Hawaii, California / Scotland, United Kingdom.  Constance Gordon Cumming is known for Landscape painting, illustration.

Landscape painter and author Constance Frederica Gordon-Cumming, the twelfth of fifteen children of Sir William and Eliza (Campbell) Gordon-Cumming, was born on May 26, 1837, in Altyre, Scotland. She grew up in Northumberland, England, and was educated at Fulham in London. Although not formally trained in art and basically self taught, she was influenced by her artistic mother and the aristocratic people who visited her home including artists Sir Edwin Lanseer and Sir William Ross, from whom she learned to paint in oil and watercolor. By her own count she would paint, during her lifetime, five-hundred large landscapes and a similar number of smaller ones.

A visit to India in 1868 at the invitation of a relative, opened the world to Gordon-Cumming, who, during the next twelve years took her painting supplies with her as she traveled to Ceylon, China, Japan, New Zealand and Australia. While in Ceylon, she climbed Adam's Peak, and in Japan, Mount Fujiyama. She first visited Califor   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 2222 characters.]  Artist bio

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Keywords and Quick Facts for Constance Frederica Gordon-Cumming


   Keywords 
Art Method
  • Easel Painting
  • Illustration, Illustrator
  • Murals: Design, Painting, Fresco, Mosaic, Glass
  • Sketch, Sketching
Art MediaArt StyleArt SubjectGeography/Places Lived and/or Worked
  • California Before 1940
  • China
  • Hawaiian Islands and/or South Seas, Tahiti, Bali
  • India and/or Burma
  • Japan
  • Northern California Before 1900
  • Yosemite National Park
Chronology
  • Early 20th Century Before 1950
  • Late 19th Century, After Civil War
Art Collection
  • Kahn Collection
Added Description
  • Self Taught, Autodidact
  • Volcano School of Painting
  • Yosemite Park Specialty

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