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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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   Publications  Book References:  20
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1 Miscellaneous Magazine References for Constance Frederica Gordon-Cumming
Magazine Article Date Author Color
American Art Review Hawaii and Its People June 2001 Saville, Jennifer Yes
20 Book References for Constance Frederica Gordon-Cumming
Year Author Title Pages Color
2006 Scott, Amy (Editor); Brian Bibby, William Deverell, et all Yosemite: Art of an American Icon
(Exhibition catalog)
221 Yes
2005 AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2005 Davenport, Ray Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition 2421 No
2002 Hughes, Edan Milton Artists in California: 1786-1940 (Two Volumes)
Available For Sale.
1249 No
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1998 Kovinick, Phil; Marian Yoshiki-Kovinick An Encyclopedia of Women Artists of the American West 405 No
1992 Forbes, David Encounters with Paradise Views of Hawaii and Its People 1778-1941 285 Yes
1989 Hughes, Edan Milton Artists in California, 1786-1940 637 No
1989 Moore, Sylvia (editor) Yesterday and Tomorow California Women Artists 378 No
1985 Dawdy, Doris Artists of the American West: Three Volumes A Biographical Dictionary 1184 No
1985 Petteys, Chris with Hazel Gustow, Ferris Olin and Verna Ritchie Dictionary of Women Artists: An International Dictionary of Women Artists Born Before 1900 851 No
1984 Orr-Cahill, Christina The Art of California Selected Works/ Oakland Museum 199 Yes
1982 Baird, Joseph Armstrong, Jr Views of Yosemite The Last Stance of the Romantic Landscape
(Exhibition catalog)
43 Yes
1976 Kovinick, Phil The Woman Artist in the American West, 1860-1960 59 Yes
1976 Samuels, Peggy and Harold The Illustrated Biographical Encyclopedia of Artists of the American West 549 No
1975 Arkelian, Marjorie The Kahn Collection Of 19th Century Paintings by Artists in Caifornia 64 Yes
1972 Taylor, Joshua National Parks and the American Landscape 141 Yes
1904 Gordon-Cumming, Constnace Memories (Illustrated by Constance Gordon-Cumming) 0 No
1886 Gordon-Cumming, Constance Granite Crags of California (Illustrated by Constance Gordon-Cumming) 0 No
1883 Gordon-Cumming, Constance Fire Fountains (Illustrated by Constance Gordon-Cumming) 0 No
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