- Emily Shanks
Emily Shanks, also known as Emiliya Yakovlevna Shanks or Эмилия Яковлевна Шанкс (
Moscow 1 August 1857 –London 13 January 1936 ), was anAnglo -Russian artist.Her father, James Stewart Shanks, was a Moscow businessman, and her siblings include Mary Shanks, also an artist, and Louise Maude, translator of
Tolstoy 's fiction. She was a British citizen, but spent much of her life in Russia.She went to the
Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture and was the first woman to have her work shown by the Russian "Society for Travelling Art Exhibitions" [Natalia Paromova's article (12 May 2004) on website of [http://tumentoday.ru/?pub=4483&PHP Tyumen Museum] ] , a group who were reacting against formal conventions and who wanted to bring accessible art to a wider public than before.Paintings by Shanks were included in the London
Royal Academy 's Summer Exhibitions of 1916 and 1918 [Angela Jarman, "Royal Academy Exhibitors 1905-1970" Vol III (1985)] , while she was living nearHolland Park . Her death was registered inKensington early in 1936.Paintings
* [http://tumentoday.ru/?pub=4483&PHP"Employing a Governess"]
Tyumen Museum, Russia
*"The Girl", privately owned
*"The Lesson" (1887), privately owned
*"The Ink Blot" (c1893)
* [http://www.bridgeman.co.uk/search/view_image2.asp?image_id=56091 "Scene in a Russian Hospital: The Ear Inspection"] , [http://www.chelmsford.co.uk/museums, Chelmsford Museum] , England
*Work in the [http://www.museum.nnov.ru/CultTour/comm/leaf.phtml?lid=581 Syzransky Museum] , Samara
*"Double Portrait ofAylmer Maude and Stella Meldrum" ["Oxford Dictionary of National Biography's" entry for Maude] , privately owned
*"A Bit of Moscow" (exhibited RA 1916)
*"Peaceful Moscow" (exhibited RA 1918)
*"Moscow rooftops", privately owned
*"The Kremlin Gold Room", privately ownedNotes
* [http://rating.artunion.ru/artists_tom3.html Russian Art Union website]
*Shanks' Russian name "Yakovlevna" or "Jakovlevna" is apatronymic from her father's name, James.External links
* [http://www.rollins.edu/Foreign_Lang/Russian/travex.html Society of Traveling Exhibitions]
* [http://www.russianpaintings.net/doc.vphp?id=128 The Immortal Itinerants]
* [http://estrand.bol.ucla.edu/ Peredvizhniki (Wanderers)]
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