In Niagara: Two Centuries of Changing Attitudes, 1697-1901 (the catalogue that accompanied the Corcoran Gallery 1985 exhibition surveying historical artistic responses to Niagara Falls), art historian Jeremy Elwell Adamson tells us that Regis painted four wintertime Niagaras. He explains that the most famous of these, and one of the most popular paintings of the Falls … Continue reading Hidden in Havana
Category: Regis Gignoux
Niagara, The Table Rock – Winter, 1847
As determined as any of the artists of his day to paint the definitive representation of Niagara, Regis painted many views of the falls. According to Adamson, the artist's Niagara, The Table Rock – Winter from 1847 was one of the earliest ambitious winter portrayals. The composition is a conventional view, which Regis individualises by presenting the … Continue reading Niagara, The Table Rock – Winter, 1847
Niagara Falls, 1855
This painting by Regis of Niagara Falls, now in the High Museum in Atlanta, provided the inspiration for our visit to the falls and will be the starting point for Alan's creative response to this location. It is a delicately coloured summertime view of the falls with little sign of human intervention aside from the … Continue reading Niagara Falls, 1855
Regis Gignoux – The Early Years
Marie-Francois Regis Gignoux was born in 1814 in Lyon, the youngest of the eight children of Swiss trader Jean-Antoine Gignoux and Gabrielle Ribollet. His granddaughter, the Marquese Bertha d’Oncieu, remembered being told that when Regis was a boy “his copybooks were full of drawings” and despite family reservations, he embarked on an art education, first … Continue reading Regis Gignoux – The Early Years
Welcome to Human Accumulations
The idea for Human Accumulations arose when photographer Alan Gignoux and I reviewed photographs of his documenting the environmental and social effects of mountaintop-removal coal mining in western Virginia. I was struck by the irony that the framing and composition of some of his images of the scarred mountains of Appalachia reminded me of … Continue reading Welcome to Human Accumulations
Human Accumulations 