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(Unidentified) Women Painters:

1893 Chicago World's Fair and Exposition


Compiled by K. L. Nichols



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Some Unidentified Paintings Displayed in the Women's Building



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Woman's portrait, full-length
(artist/title unknown)--
exhibited in Rotunda, Women's
Building, 1893 Exposition

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[artist/title unknown]--
exhibited in Women's
Building, 1893 Exposition.
IDENTIFIED:
Artist--Katharine A. Carl,
Oriental Beauty or Odalisque


The two above paintings, as well as the "Kneeling Woman" painting immediately below this statement, appear to be the ones seen in the bottom left quadrant of the large image (with murals) shown below.



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Kneeling woman in prayer
(artist/title unknown)--
exhibited in Women's
Building, 1893 Exposition.

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Baroness Burdett-Coutts
(artist/title unknown)--
exhibited in Women's
Building, 1893 Exposition.


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Some unidentified paintings, Rotunda, Women's Building, 1893 Exposition--
the large murals have been identified.


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Some unidentified paintings in Rotunda, Women's Building, 1893 Exposition.
The large cathedral painting in the center has been
identified as the work of Elena Brockman y Llanos.

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Jesus and John the Baptist [as boys] with a Shell (artist unknown),
exhibited in the Rotunda, Women's Building, 1893 Exposition.


The woman artist of "Jesus and John the Baptist [as boys] with a Shell" [and a lamb]
(see center right in the larger image above) is still unidentified, but one source has listed
the painting itself as being "After Esteban Murillo." The original Murillo painting is from
1670 and is owned by the Prado Museum in Madrid, Spain.



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Some unidentified paintings, Rotunda, Women's Building, 1893 Exposition--
about half of these paintings have been identified on the previous pages of this site.


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Some unidentified paintings, Board Room, Women's Building, 1893 Exposition--
the dog painting has been identified on a previous web page. Artist: Lily Irene Jackson.


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Some unidentified paintings, Board Room, Women's Building, 1893 Exposition--
the boy painting has been identified on a previous web page. Artist: Julia Escalante.


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Some unidentified paintings, Board Room, Women's Building, 1893 Exposition--
two paintings here have been identified. The barely discernible painting on the right wall,
in the left corner, has been identified as being by Estelle Uhler.


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Some unidentified paintings, Cincinnati Room, Women's Building, 1893 Exposition--
two of these paintings have been identified.




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Some of the  information on these web pages came from these sources:


Jeanne Madeline Weimann, The Fair Women, Chicago 1981.


F. Graeme Chalmers, Women in the Nineteenth Century Art World, Westport 1988.


Paul V. Galvin, World's Columbian Exposition of 1893, Library Digital History Collection, Illinois Institute of Technology.




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These pages are for educational use only.

Text written by K. L. Nichols


Painting, top of page: Marie Konstantinovna
Bashkirtseff, In the Studio (1881).


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Posted: 6-25-02; Updated: 2-1-18