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- Madge Tennent (June 22, 1889 – February 5, 1972) was a naturalized American artist, born in England, raised in South Africa, and trained in France. She ranks among the most accomplished and globally renowned artists ever to have lived and worked in Hawaiʻi. A child prodigy, Tennent spent her formative teenage years in Paris, where she honed technical mastery under the tutelage of William-Adolphe Bouguereau at the Académie Julian; simultaneous exposure to the city's leading avant-garde artists, including Paul Cézanne, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and Pablo Picasso, stoked her pioneering vision. Having served as an art educator in South Africa, New Zealand, and British Samoa, she settled in Honolulu with her husband and children in 1923. Tennent's prolific output spanned paintings, drawings, and sculpture. Her reverent fascination with Hawaiian women inspired the sweeping aesthetic quest that would culminate in an iconic signature style: enormous paintings of voluptuous female figures that synthesized brilliant, swirling hues into graceful, harmonious compositions. A prominent figure on the international circuit, Tennent exhibited to critical and popular acclaim around the world. At the time of her death, many critics considered her the most important individual contributor to Hawaiian art in the 20th century. (en)
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- Madge Tennent (en)
- Patricia Hartwell (en)
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- Dulwich, South London, England (en)
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- Painting, drawing, mural, sculpture (en)
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- British, naturalized American in 1936 (en)
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- Even the enveloping holoku cannot hide the small wrists, the curled back slender fingers and the columnar arm of even the largest lei woman. Her lifted arms, her wistful smile, the ember-like glow of her sunny flesh, are a perpetual and queenly benediction from one in an honored profession in the Islands possessing the most beautiful people of the world. (en)
- In the visual arts Madge Tennent has no equal among the under-appreciated artists of Hawaii. Those of us who salute John Kelly, for instance, as a most graphic delineator of Hawaiian types, cannot compare him to Tennent as an artist, anymore than an aficionado of either, links Gershwin to Wagner. (en)
- Stimulated by the pure colour flourishes of van Gogh, the fire and ice of Cézanne, and the opalescent, jeweled, flower-tinted harmonies of Renoir, this experience of experimentation in colour was a joyous one for me, though it was often the reverse for onlookers, many of whom prophesied a dire aesthetic end for me as an artist. (en)
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- Autobiography (en)
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- Bertie Phillips Denham (en)
- Hugh Cowper Tennent (en)
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- Madge Tennent (June 22, 1889 – February 5, 1972) was a naturalized American artist, born in England, raised in South Africa, and trained in France. She ranks among the most accomplished and globally renowned artists ever to have lived and worked in Hawaiʻi. (en)
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