Mary B Schuenemann
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Mary B. Schuenemann was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on September 5, 1898. Her life was dedicated to the arts, in particular the painting of watercolors. She was well-known among her peers and in the art world for her accomplished style. Influenced by the artistic trends of the East Coast, she let her subjects emerge freely from her brush. Concurrently with a sober, realistic style the artist also created immediate, spontaneous impressions. Her summer home was in Pineville, New Jersey, where she often found her themes of water, boats, fishing paraphernalia, characterized by intense juxtapositions of color. The artist could capture the rapidly changing effects of light and water. Her interior scenes with still lifes capture movement as well as a sense of time and space. In her cityscapes, Schuenemann endowed the industrial forms with the power to represent invisible forces and sublime experience. Her watercolors retain the spontaneity and energy expressed by the fluidity and transparency of the watercolor medium. Her industrial paintings are rendered in both futurist and realistic styles. Schuenemann could change her style to suit her mood with the subject. Schuenemann composed her still lifes and florals with utter control of the medium and the subject. Her flower works can be both tender and erotic; each possessing a unique movement to the subject that defies the limitations of the medium. Schuenemann was a product of the fertile developments of the arts in the early part of the 20th century in America. She worked in oils, pastels, and watercolors, her favorite medium being watercolor. Schuenemann received a degree from the University of Pennsylvania with further studies at the Philadelphia College of Arts, the Tyler School of Arts, and the Modern School of Painting, Gloucester, MA, where she studied with Earl Horter, Earnest Thum, and John Lear. She received numerous awards from art associations, including five gold medals, and four silver medals. Schuenemann had many solo shows at prestigious institutions, to name a few: Philadelphia Art Alliance, Woodier Art Gallery, Plastic’s Club of Philadelphia, Abington Art Center, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, and Philadelphia Art Museum. Mary B. Schuenemann is listed in the following publications: Who’s Who in American Art, Who’s Who of American Women Painters, Who’s Who in the East, and Who Was Who in American Art.
