1934年5月1日的日記可談的很多 此處談 胡適認為見解鄙陋的煤油商 Hardy Jowett
Hardy 用一英國政檀 nurse 胡適當然其意 並翻譯為"培養" 日本辭典: nurse
Hardy Jowett似乎沒機會回英國就死於1936年
網路上他的太太更有名
Katharine Jowett
British
1890-1965
Biography
Katharine Jowett was an English artist best known for her luminous color block prints of Chinese landscapes around the Peking/Beijing area. Born in Devon around 1890 into a religious family, her father was Reverend Timothy Wheatley, minister at the Mint Methodist Church in Exeter.
In her early twenties, Katharine followed a Methodist missionary, with whom she was in love, to China, but found on arrival in Peking that she did not want to marry him after all. Instead, she married Hardy Jowett, a prominent member of the British community in Peking, by whom she had two sons.
Most of Katharine Jowett's prints depict temples and other famous landmarks in and around the Peking area. She carved and printed her own designs, using linoleum blocks and oil-based inks. Her prints are rather small and have a dark thick border around the edges, reminiscent of Arts and Crafts woodcuts. Unlike Japanese shin hanga artists, Jowett did not use a key block to outline her designs. Instead, she layered the colors one on top of another like a painting. This gives her work a hazy impressionistic feel, distinctly different from the precisely defined areas of color in traditional Japanese prints and the works of many of her contemporaries, such as Bertha Lum and Helen Hyde.
Jowett is thought to have produced around 20 different prints, only some of which were in numbered editions. Her pictures, particularly her prints, were very popular in China in the twenties and thirties and not just with the Western community: even Chairman Mao had a set of her prints in his study. Two of Jowett's linoleum cuts were used to illustrate cultural essays that appeared in "The Christian Science Monitor" in 1934-35.
Jowett's husband died in 1936 and she was interned by the Japanese during World War II. She met a German baron in the prisoner-of-war camp, to whom she became very attached, but whom she never married. After the war, Jowett returned to England and lived mainly in Okehampton where her younger son practiced medicine. She continued to paint, but her later paintings, although charming, lack the vitality and interest of her Chinese pictures. She died twenty years after her return and is buried in the Pearse family graveyard in Sticklepath, just outside Okehampton. Katharine Jowett's block prints of China continue to be sought after by modern collectors, depicting as they do a vanished world, largely destroyed in the upheavals of the mid-twentieth century.
Information courtesy www.hanga.com, copyright 2008.
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