Mississippi Museum of Art
Jackson, MS
601-960-1515
http://www.msmuseumart.org
Caroline Compton: The River at Vicksburg
and Beyond
Mississippi Museum of Art is pleased
to present Caroline Compton: The River at Vicksburg and Beyond, an
exhibition organized by the MMA that surveys the work of Vicksburg native
Caroline Compton. Sponsored by Friends of Caroline Compton, the exhibition
opens in the Collection Gallery on November 20, 1999, and continues through
January 23, 2000.
Caroline Compton was born January 10, 1907
in Vicksburg. She attended high school at All Saints' Junior College in
Vicksburg and upon graduation from Sweet Briar College in Virginia she moved
to New York City to attend Grand Central School of Art. In New York, Compton
studied with notable artists George
Pearse Ennis (1884-1936), head of the George Pearse Ennis School
of Art and president of the American Water-colour Society, and George Luks.
Early study with realist painter Luks established the visual foundations
for Compton's mature work which she created upon her return to Vicksburg.
Compton died in the city of her birth in 1987. (left: South of
Monroe, n.d., (detail), oil on board, Collection of Mississippi Museum
of Art, Bequest of the artist)
This exhibition is the first focused survey of Compton's
paintings and drawings. Organized thematically rather than chronologically,
the diverse works assembled are grouped by subject: scenes of Vicksburg
and the surrounding region, portraits and figures, and still lifes.
"Like her fellow Mississippians including William
Hollingsworth and Karl Wolfe, Caroline Compton held firmly to the kind of
realistic art she understood and loved, avoiding the pitfalls of awkward
ventures into abstraction," said MMA Chief Curator René Paul
Barilleaux, who organized the exhibition.
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information of the artist. Besides that which is noted above, we found that
the Smithsonian Archives of American Art possesses an exhibition catalogue
from the MacDowell Club for Nov. 7-19, 1918, with "Paintings by Theresa
F. Bernstein, Frederick K. Detwiller, George Pearse Ennis, Alice Judson,
Oscar H. Julius, Victor A. Seydel, H. Vance Swope, James Wieland."
He was in a "Group of American Painters" show at the Art Institute
of Chicago July - November, 1926. Also, William Lawrence Ryan and George
Pearse Ennis lived together the Summer of 1936 at Eastport, Maine, and painted
the colorful Fundy Coast and fishermen.
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Caroline Compton was born January 10, 1907
in Vicksburg. She attended high school at All Saints' Junior College in
Vicksburg and upon graduation from Sweet Briar College in Virginia she moved
to New York City to attend Grand Central School of Art. In New York, Compton
studied with notable artists George
Pearse Ennis (1884-1936), head of the George Pearse Ennis School
of Art and president of the American Water-colour Society, and George Luks.
Early study with realist painter Luks established the visual foundations
for Compton's mature work which she created upon her return to Vicksburg.
Compton died in the city of her birth in 1987. (left: South of
Monroe, n.d., (detail), oil on board, Collection of Mississippi Museum
of Art, Bequest of the artist)