Research - Kuhne Beveridge

 WORKS.                                                                     (Access to New York Times until 19/11/25)


Reference Rebecca Wade - art uk transcript from: New sculpture discoveries and research, 12 March 2021You tube video of this

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Triumph_of_Venus_%281918%29_-_6.jpg - Kuhnes half sister actress as venus.

PERFECT VENUS SEARCH:

https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001956/19080825/034/0002 

art of exhibition? https://ia800401.us.archive.org/30/items/lartlexpositionu00babe/lartlexpositionu00babe.pdf

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1057/9781137318091_4#citeas - feminist art theory.

(Peer reviewed sculpture journal available in uni online library and features mexican girl dying)


Rebecca Wade is , Art historian and curator, Beyond the Veil: An object biography of ‘The Veiled Venus’ by Kühne Beveridge and Ella Von Wrede

Rebecca Fortnum: https://www.gowithyamo.com/blog/rebecca-fortnum-spotlights-the-overlooked-women-of-sculpture-in-les-praticiennes

& a mind weighted:

https://researchonline.rca.ac.uk/4553/1/RebeccaFortnum_A%20Mind%20Weighted_Lastpdf.pdf#:~:text=Beveridge's%20work%20The%20Vampire%2C%20was,to%20find%20out%20if%20and

AND...

https://fineartdrawinglca.blogspot.com/2023/02/rebecca-fortnum-at-henry-moore-centre.html


Kuhnes Artist intention re the vampire - "Man takes all always, a woman gives everything' Intention to "show mans desire to hurt the thing he loves"

ARTICLE:lhttps://www.nytimes.com/1910/02/20/archives/beveridge-statue-to-startle-leipsic-the-vampire-by-young-amer-ican.htm

TIMES MACHINE:https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1910/02/20/104922289.html?pageNumber=18

Contacted Rodin Museum France 3.11.2025   ( https://www.musee-rodin.fr/contact )

https://collections.musee-rodin.fr/document/le-vampire-par-kuhne-beveridge-marbre/6385d6aa05c32181005ad7f8?pageId=66615c56b358e62d33dee7c6&v=list&s=auteur&so=asc&pos=1179



Journal: 1910  20. can't find reference to vampire/beveridge. PDF saved,

Image of the vampire - with text in French - message to master.

https://collections.musee-rodin.fr/document/le-vampire-par-kuhne-beveridge-marbre/6385d6aa05c32181005ad7f8?pageId=66615c56b358e62d33dee7c6&v=list&s=auteur&so=asc&pos=1179

Annotation;

To my dear master/this is my vampire/I hope you like it/a thousand best regards/Kühne Beveridge


Golden gate: https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19060629.2.36&srpos=1&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN-kuhne+beveridge-------


https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19100724.2.93.4&srpos=2&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN-kuhne+beveridge-------  park commision

Her work has been so admired that many of her models were displayed February; at the Del .Vecchio gallery in Leipzig. In connection with the works of Anton Klemroth, the famous Russian portrait painter. - "The Birth of the Ne\yr San Francisco" is not the first piece of sculpture done by Miss Beveridge in . connection with the great disaster which overtook the California city, 1 for at . the Del Vecchio gallery in Leipzig "there, was displayed* a model., entitled !'San:Francisco Weeping at the Golden Gate," done, apparently, before that city had recovered from her misfortune. ' . "Ray Beveridge, the actress, known as the: baroness yon Wrede, is a younger sister of the sculptor,' and she it was who posed for the. figure in "San Francisco Weeping, at : Golden : Gate." Kuhne Beveridge some time ago created a stir by Btatlng:that she had been air over the world in -quest of a living Venus, and that the- American women came, nearest to the perfect type.


LIFE AND KUHNES WORDS OR REPORTING

Mothers life/ remarriage / social ambitions- refers to 2 young daughters


Works including Slave of Desire..https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19100313.1.7&e=-------en--20--21--txt-txIN-kuhne+beveridge-------


Rising sculptress - 1892 https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SJMN18921025.2.28&srpos=33&e=-------en--20--21--txt-txIN-kuhne+beveridge-------

Income

https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=LAH19030111.2.73&srpos=29&e=-------en--20--21--txt-txIN-kuhne+beveridge-------

Article - trouble sculptor

https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83045389/1916-02-27/ed-1/?sp=47&q=Beveridge+Kuhne&r=-0.576,-0.044,2.152,1.444,0

Engagement to James G.Blame:

https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=LAH18980312.2.103&srpos=3&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN-kuhne+beveridge-------

https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC18980311.2.21&srpos=10&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN-kuhne+beveridge-------


Wedding to Branson


https://digitalcommons.colby.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2587&context=cq COGLAN ARTICLE

https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SRX19030825.2.33&srpos=7&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN-kuhne+beveridge-------

1930 Illinois Journal features letter from Kuhne whilst living with her sister: https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/40187673


Coghlan sisters ambivalence to Kuhne: https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC18940425.2.6&srpos=19&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN-kuhne+beveridge-------

He's left her: https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC18940517.2.18&srpos=8&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN-kuhne+beveridge-------

Kuhne wants vengence re Charle Coghlan divorce -  article: https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC18940524.2.49&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------

Hall of Fame article: https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=MT19300626.2.49&srpos=14&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN-Kuhne+Beveridge-------1

marian /clair sisters (half) Beveridge Pringle

Kuhne death/ burial/ hall of fame:

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/261863124/k%C3%BChne-branson. 

Death cert- feels relevant because its the first thing i noticed anout the information at Leeds art Gallery - that there was a dob but no record of the artists death.

Illinois hall of fame 1930
https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=MT19300626.2.49&srpos=14&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN-Kuhne+Beveridge-------1


PORTRAIT

Portrait of Kuhne: https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/c0fa1660-ff58-012f-6bfe-58d385a7bc34?canvasIndex=0

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https://www.album-online.com/detail/en/YTUwMDcxMA/exposition-universelle-fair-paris-1900-better-known-english-held-france-alb9035813. Paris openiing photo

Ray Beveridge

https://gahistoricnewspapers.galileo.usg.edu/lccn/sn89053729/1913-11-30/ed-1/seq-4/ - WEDDED TO HER ART

Divorce from Irving Selinger RAY

ARTICLE:https://www.nytimes.com/1914/05/26/archives/divorces-irving-seliger-ray-beveridge-american-actress-obtains.html

TIMES MACHINE:https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1914/05/26/100092475.html?pageNumber=4

Can you seperate the art from the artist or in this case the muse?  


Eric Gill article: https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2017/apr/09/eric-gill-the-body-ditchling-exhibition-rachel-cooke

 


An american venus leads the German Fasciti

https://newspaperhub.mnhs.org/?a=d&d=sppp19231021.1.78&e=-------en-20--1--img-txIN------------

Nazi event with image: https://trierglobal.hypotheses.org/196

Muse /actress: https://www.regionalgeschichte.net/bibliothek/biographien/beveridge-ray.html

The Fury Archives; Ray Beveridge and the black bastards and Queer species (Rhinelands) https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.7312/rich19710-006/html?lang=en&srsltid=AfmBOoovd0sk037zqBJ6RCPPCfHusX6WZiTvwj2K4Q-WNhdZFgySmiHz

Ray features in this paper Paper by Tracey Owens Patton  2017: 

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/317486965_That_was_the_Worst_Day_of_My_Life_Recrafting_Family_through_Memory_Race_and_Rejection_in_Post-WWII_Germany/download


Criticised for pro german attitude: https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MPE19151113.2.32&srpos=18&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN-kuhne+beveridge-------


COMPARISON ARTISTS - FEMALE IN 1900:https://awarewomenartists.com/en/artiste/meta-vaux-warrick-fuller/


https://artdiaspora.omeka.net/items/show/12

https://journalpanorama.org/article/asserting-agency/ - Work as weird as rodins..

Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller’s Man Eating His Heart (also known as Secret Sorrow, ca. 1900) was critically acclaimed in Paris as a masterpiece of emotional intensity, earning her praise from Auguste Rodin. The French press labeled her a “delicate sculptor of horrors” for her bold, symbolic, and often grotesque portrayals of human pain, marking her as a daring artist.




By This image is available from the Brown University Library under the digital ID 1303835094593752., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=24651743  

 

Exposition Universelle of 1900 opening Brown University Library 



The paper; notes:


  •  The scope of the paper is not the same as the limits of your practice; it isn't the entire aspect of your practice. 
  • Know how to explore and communicate to an audience.
  • You will have this to form part of your practice moving forward.

Bring in artists from similar period where there is writing - to relate to KB and how she fit into her art world and the discourse of the time. 
War context - Problematic that KB was german as the wars started. 

1st World War: 28 July 1914 - 11 September 1918 - 4 years. 
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2nd World War: 1st September 1939  - 2nd September 1945  - 6 years.

The veil:

Other sculptures - Modesty

https://www.museosansevero.it/en/the-chapel-and-the-veiled-christ/the-statues/modesty

Veils

https://www.artsculpturegallery.com/news/the-art-of-veiled-sculptures-a-cloaked-beauty-unveiled

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