Felix Vallotton
French
1865-1925
Felix Vallotton Gallery
Swiss woodcut artist and painter. Associated with the Nabis, he worked in Paris. Vallotton rejuvenated the woodcut medium as a creative technique. His boldly cut designs, conceived as arrangements in black and white, depict Parisian society with wit and intelligence. A painting, Swiss Landscape, is in the Lyman Allyn Museum, New London, Related Paintings of Felix Vallotton :. | Woman wiht Yellow Necklace Reading | three women and a young girl playing in the water | Naked Woman Before Salamander Stove | Femmes nues aux chats | Reading Abandoned | Related Artists: Helen Galloway McNicoll (Canadian, 1879-1915 GIOVANNI DA MODENAItalian painter, Bolognese school (active 1409-1456 in Bologna) WRIGHT, JosephEnglish painter (b. 1734, Derby, d. 1797, Derby).
Painter, known as Wright of Derby, where he was born and spent most of his life. He earned a living as a portrait painter, while he experimented with the effects of light and industrial and scientific subjects, reflecting the interests of his day. Two of his best-known works come from this period, A Philosopher Lecturing on the Orrery (1766, Derby) and An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump (1768, Tate).
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