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Jun 14, 2018

'That brick red frock with flowers everywhere': painting Katherine Mansfield

Eleven years older than Mansfield, Anne Estelle Rice was born in 1877 at Conshohocken, a mill town near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, then grew up at Pottstown, some 50 kilometres away. She was said by her husband to be of Scottish, Irish and Pennsylvania-Dutch descent. From 1894 she studied art for three years at the School of Industrial Art in Philadelphia before going on to the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, where she studied with William Merritt Chase and others.Even in her student years, she was contributing fashion illustrations for Collier's, Harper's and the Saturday Evening Post, before moving to Paris in 1905, where she worked for Philadelphia's North American magazine. At Paris-Plage (now Le Touquet) on the Normandy coast two years later, she met and formed the close relationship with John Duncan Fergusson, who introduced her to the Fauvists. The aesthetic concept of "rhythm" provided the connective tissue between the writers and artists involved with the magazineJD Fergusson has come to be associated with three other Scottish painters with similar a...

May 25, 2017

After three-year wait, Longwood Garden's rebuilt illuminated dance water fountain opens [video]

Every piece of carved limestone — there were 4000 pieces — was removed and sent to conservators in Conshohocken, Pa. Every underground pipe installed 85 years ago was taken out so an entirely new infrastructure of underground concrete tunnels could be built. The project cost $90 million.For the better part of two years the garden had been basically a massive hole in the ground."It's been fun," said Tori Fausto of East Fallowfield Township, who brings her children to Longwood almost every week. "We have three boys. They enjoy the bulldozers and the trucks. That's almost as much fun if not more than the flowers for them."The people who run Longwood Gardens call it an "engineer's garden." It was designed in 1931 by founder Pierre DuPont, of the DuPont fortune, who trained as a chemical engineer. He took the concept of a 17th century classical European water garden and built it with the latest technology."He was looking to the future," said CEO Paul Redman. "He built the modern-day DuPont corporation. A very forward-thinking individual. But he was a classicist. He loved the classical water gardens of Italy and France, and the country gardens of England."Dupont was one of the first people to illuminate water with electric lights. He installed a series of redundant plum... (Newsworks.org)