[Henri Matisse] : artist file 1900-

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[Henri Matisse] : artist file 1900-

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John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art Library, Ringling Museum Library

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John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art Library, Ringling Museum Library

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Matisse, Henri, 1869-1954

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Matisse was born in 1869 to generations of weavers in Le Cateau-Cambrésis, a northern French town whose woolen mills constituted the main industry. He was raised in nearby Bohain, famous for its luxury fabrics. This early exposure to textiles would shape his visual language: examples from his own collection of carpets and cloths from Europe, Africa, and the Middle East would deeply inform his sense of color and pattern and appear in his compositions. Taking up painting after first studyin...