Ellie Bogardus - The Lost Generation

1920's in Paris

Following on the theme from Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris (1) with American artists mixed in with Europeans, a cohort of creativeness, a kind of 1920's Rat Pack - this posting shows some of Ellie Bogardus paintings from 1964 and 1967 that are owned by Jean-Marie Bonnard, Ellie's husband from the 1960's. Bonnard's son Mathias, also an artist, sent these yesterday after taking photographs of them at his father's house in France. There may be more works in the Bonnard attic, but these along with the ones posted earlier from the Allyn Morris Family collection show some familiar elements in Bogardus' later style. Some of those features clearly evolve in the later years as I remember seeing in a couple of paintings in Cambria galleries twenty years ago, other elements don't seem related at all, and are more in line with the abstractions of Jean-Marie. The titles of the works below are imagined.

1964, Côte d'Azur

1967, Українська матрьошка

1967, Beach Bicycle at High Tide

1967, Discussions at the Salon

1967, Gertrude Stein's Cat

1967, A Nap at Sunset

1967, Sunset Behind the House

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(1) I haven't seen that many other Woody Allen movies, not even enough to count on one hand: Sleeper, Bananas, and Annie Hall - I don't remember Coleen Dewhurst in Annie Hall, but do remember her as Marilla in Anne of Green Gables - however, there was some line in AH about speaking crustacean while preparing a meal in a kitchen.