EDWARD BARNARD LINTOTT (1875-1951)
Study of a nude, 1924
signed, inscribed and dated 1924 (lower right)
Pencil on paper
17.91 x 12.4ins (45.5 x 31.5cm) (artwork size)
23.23 x 16.73in (59 x 42.5cm) (framed size)
23.23 x 16.73in (59 x 42.5cm) (framed size)
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London-born artist Edward Barnard Lintott was educated in England and pursued his studies in Paris. He attended The Académie Julian, a private art school for painting and sculpture, and enrolled...
London-born artist Edward Barnard Lintott was educated in England and pursued his studies in Paris. He attended The Académie Julian, a private art school for painting and sculpture, and enrolled at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts.
After an artistic and political career in London (he was appointed secretary to the British Ambassador to Russia), the artist moved to the USA and became an American citizen in the 1940s. He had many exhibitions in this country, including solo shows at the Macbeth Gallery in New York and the Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, Massachusetts, in 1942.
A versatile artist, Edward Barnard Lintott is difficult to categorise. In the catalogue of the exhibition held at the Macbeth Gallery in 1934, Marie Sterner, a respectable art dealer and the artist's wife, stated: ‘ "Variety is charming”, repetition is dull. It is because of this fact that the artist with an active analytical and exploring mind will paint still life, landscape, genre, in fact everything rather than be pigeonholed and placed in a category […] Barnard Lintott has, therefore, the best of authority for his belief that each of the subjects that interests him,—landscapes, portraits, flowers, genre,—demands its own technical expression. The variety of his methods adds to the enjoyment of his pictures’. 1
A retrospective exhibition of his work was held at the Clayton-Liberatore Art Gallery, Bridgehampton, New York in September 1970.
1 Sterner, M. (intro), Paintings and Drawings by Lintott, Macbeth Gallery, New York, January-February 1934.
After an artistic and political career in London (he was appointed secretary to the British Ambassador to Russia), the artist moved to the USA and became an American citizen in the 1940s. He had many exhibitions in this country, including solo shows at the Macbeth Gallery in New York and the Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, Massachusetts, in 1942.
A versatile artist, Edward Barnard Lintott is difficult to categorise. In the catalogue of the exhibition held at the Macbeth Gallery in 1934, Marie Sterner, a respectable art dealer and the artist's wife, stated: ‘ "Variety is charming”, repetition is dull. It is because of this fact that the artist with an active analytical and exploring mind will paint still life, landscape, genre, in fact everything rather than be pigeonholed and placed in a category […] Barnard Lintott has, therefore, the best of authority for his belief that each of the subjects that interests him,—landscapes, portraits, flowers, genre,—demands its own technical expression. The variety of his methods adds to the enjoyment of his pictures’. 1
A retrospective exhibition of his work was held at the Clayton-Liberatore Art Gallery, Bridgehampton, New York in September 1970.
1 Sterner, M. (intro), Paintings and Drawings by Lintott, Macbeth Gallery, New York, January-February 1934.
