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Hope Manchester was born at Warwick (Rhode Island), in the United States in 1907. She will study art at the School of Design of Rhode Island. The artist moves to Paris just after the Second World War. She will be a student at Fernand Leger Academy and, in the same time, she will work the etching at the
Hope Manchester was born at Warwick (Rhode Island), in the United States in 1907. She will study art at the School of Design of Rhode Island. The artist moves to Paris just after the Second World War. She will be a student at Fernand Leger Academy and, in the same time, she will work the etching at the Atelier 17 headed by Stanley William Hayter. She participates many times at the « Salon des Réalités Nouvelles ». In 1950, reading an article published in the art magazines of the artist André Lothe she is impressed with the beauty of Alba La Romaine, a wonderful village in Ardèche, - south of France. Hope Manchester and her husband, the american artist Théodore Appleby, decide to move there and they buy a house. Over a very short period of time, more than thirty artists from every where and from all nationalities do the same (Jean Bertholle, Elisabeth Guggenheim, Hayter, Jean Le Moal, etc) and the village is being reborn and making a real turn towards art. There is a great emulation between the artists; they often have lunch together at the restaurant « La Petite Chaumière », named in homage to « La Grande Chaumière » (famous art school in Paris, created in 1904), where a room is devoted to an ongoing display of their works. Since the beginning, people talk about the School of Alba, even with so many different trends and inspiration between the artists. Hope Manchester, full member of this community of artists, is also a stone carver and she shows her works in the village. She will exhibit her works at the Modern Art Museum in Paris, at the Contemporary Art Museum in Lisbonne, at the American Cultural Center in Paris, and in many group exhibitions in France and in other countries. In her paintings, she focuses on representing landscapes by a way close to the abstraction. Hope Manchester will never move from Alba and she will pass away in 1976.
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* « Réalités Nouvelles - n°4, 6, 13 et 15 », catalogues d'exposition, Paris, 1950, 1952, 1959 et 1961* « Artistes américains en France 1860-1961 », Centre Culturel Américain, Paris, 1961
* « Patrimoine artistique d'Alba la Romaine - les années 50 », Ed. Association des Amis d'Alba, 2006
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- + ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM / 1942-1957 / Archile Gorky, Mark Rothko, Clifford Still, Adolph Gottlieb, Franz Kline, Ad Reinhardt, Philip Guston, Kenneth Noland, etc.
- + NEW REALITIES / 1946-1956 / Etienne Béothy, Marcelle Cahn, etc.
- + MODERN SCULPTURE / 1930-1970 / William Kenneth Armiage, Constantin Brancusi, Anthony Caro, Naum Gabo, Pablo Gargallo, Isamu Noguchi, etc.
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