Jessie Boswell Biography
Jessie Boswell was born on March 10, 1881 in Leeds, England, to an old Yorkshire family. In 1906 he moved to Italy and in 1913 he settled in Turin. It is not known when she began to paint, but she certainly found a stimulating environment in the Gualino house, where she worked as a lady-in-waiting until 1928. In 1923 she exhibited to the Turin public at the Promotrice together with a group of young artists who, rebelling against the official tradition, they see Felice Casorati as the master of modern art.
Indifferent to the problems of style that beset the Casoratian environment, extraneous to the cultural controversies fueled by both Lionello Venturi and Edoardo Persico in the circle of Turin artists, Jessie Boswell joined the group of the "Six Painters of Turin" at the end of 1928. She spoke at the four exhibitions of the Six between 1929 and 1930, after the Venice Biennale of 1930 he left the group and continued to work in Turin.
His works mostly portray interior scenes, living rooms, terraces, figures, solitary landscapes and flower vases, with a simplicity of style that was much appreciated.
Jessie Boswell obtained Italian citizenship in 1936 and during the war managed to exhibit until 1941. When the bombings and the German occupation paralyzed every cultural and artistic event in Turin, Jessie Boswell, who after a period of tiredness resumed producing with new impetus from 1942 to 1945, he held a personal exhibition in Biella, at the Garlanda art gallery (1944). After the war, the painter's health declined, preventing her from any artistic activity. He died on September 22, 1956.
