RESEARCHING GWEN

The work of researching Gwen took several years, both in archives and in libraries across the world. I am very grateful for the assistance of the Musee Rodin in Paris, and for the libraries at the University of Chicago and at Northwestern University, because they enabled me to find many contemporary books about Paris in the early 1900’s. I was also lucky to be able to speak with Sir Michael Holroyd, the biographer of Augustus John, and with Cecily Langdale, the well-known gallerist and compiler of Gwen’s Catalogue Raisonné. And the lovely assistant curator at MOMA, Lilian Tone, allowed me to visit the painting that inspired the book, Girl with a Blue Scarf. If you are interested in reading more about Gwen, you can’t go wrong with any of these books. The starred books were my personal favourites.

Berr, Helene. The Journal of Helene Berr.

Butler, Ruth. Rodin: The Shape of Genius

*Chitty, Susan. Gwen John. London: F. Watts, 1987

Clark, Timothy J. The Painting of Modern Life: Paris in the Art of Manet and His Followers.

Cody, Morrill. Women of Montparnasse.

*Foster, Alicia. Gwen John. Princeton University Press, 1999

Corbett,Rachel. You Must Change Your Life. Norton, 2016

Getsy, David. Rodin: Sex and the Making of Modern Sculpture.

Glassco, John. Memoirs of Montparnasse.

Grunfeld, Frederic. Rodin: A Biography.

Hall, S.C. Tenby; Its History, Antiquities, Scenery, Traditions and Customs.British Library, 2011

*Holroyd, Michael. Augustus John: The New Biography. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1996.

Jenkins, David Fraser. Gwen John and Augustus John. London: Tate, 2004

Jenkins, David Fraser. Gwen John at the National Museum of Wales. National Museums and Galleries of Wales, 1976.

John, Augustus. Chiaroscuro.

Klarsfeld, Serge. French Children of the Holocaust: A Memorial.

Langdale, Cecily. Gwen John: An Interior Life. New York: Rizzoli, 1986

*Langdale, Cecily. Gwen John, With a Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings and a Selection of the Drawings (Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art). New Haven: Yale University Press, 1987

Lavizzari, Alexandra. Gwen John: Rodins Kleine Muse. Germany: Zytglogge-Verlag, 2001

Le Normand-Romaine, Antoinette. Rodin. Abbeville Press, 2014

Levy, Claude. Betrayal at the Vel D’Hiv.

*Lloyd-Morgan, Ceridwen. Gwen John: Letters and Notebooks. London: Tate, 2005

Lloyd-Morgan, Ceridwen. Gwen John Papers at the National Library of Wales. National Library of Wales, 1988.

Miller, Sarah Lew. Hiding in Plain Sight: Eluding the Nazis in Occupied France.

Nicholson, Virginia. Amongst the Bohemians: Experiments in Living.

Price, Sean. Varian Fry: A Hero of the Holocaust.

*Rilke, Rainer Maria. Auguste Rodin.

Rodin, Auguste. Erotic Watercolours.

*Roe, Sue. Gwen John: A Painter’s Life. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2001

Roe, Sue. The Private Lives of the Impressionists.

Ruelle, Karen Grey. Hidden on the Mountain: Stories of Children Sheltered from the Nazis in Le Chambon

Tamboukou, Maria. Nomadic Narratives, Visual Forces: Gwen John’s Letters and Paintings. Peter Lang, 2010

Taubman, Mary. Gwen John: The Artist and her Work. Cornell University Press, 1986

Thomas, Alison. Gwen John and Her Forgotten Contemporaries. Polity, 1996

Wayne, Kenneth. The Artists of Montparnasse.

*exceptionally useful books