Ethel Mars Art
Ethel Mars was born in Springfield, IL. She attended Cincinnati Art Academy, meeting fellow artists/printmakers Edna B. Hopkins and Maud Hunt Squire (who later became her lifelong companion). In 1905, Mars and Squire moved to Paris and quickly became active members of the vibrant Parisian art community. They were known to visit Gertrude Stein and Alice Toklas, and it is said that Ethel Mars and Maud Hunt Squire inspired Stein’s prose “Miss Furr and Miss Skeene.” At the outset of WWI, Mars and Squire left Paris and settled in Provincetown, MA, a magnet for creative minds. Other artists who arrived in Provincetown among them were Blanche Lazzell, B. J. O. Nordfeldt, Ada Gilmore and Mildred McMillen. This was the original group of artists to make white-line woodcut prints, then called Provincetown Prints. This new printmaking technique, which grew out of the traditional Japanese multi-block color woodcut, simplified some of the technical difficulties of registration and printing, allowing the Provincetown group to make blocks and print them in their home settings. At the end of the war, Mars and Squire returned to France, moving south to Vence. Ethel Mars remained in France for the remainder of her life.
(Biography provided by The Old Print Shop, Inc.)
Early 20th Century American Modern Ethel Mars Art
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1930s American Modern Ethel Mars Art
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1980s American Modern Ethel Mars Art
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1920s American Modern Ethel Mars Art
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1940s American Modern Ethel Mars Art
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1910s American Modern Ethel Mars Art
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Early 20th Century American Modern Ethel Mars Art
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2010s American Modern Ethel Mars Art
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1930s American Modern Ethel Mars Art
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1960s American Modern Ethel Mars Art
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1930s American Modern Ethel Mars Art
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1940s American Modern Ethel Mars Art
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1910s American Modern Ethel Mars Art
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Early 20th Century American Modern Ethel Mars Art
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