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Maria A'Becket
Ellen K. Baker
Martha S. Baker
Mary K. Baker
Addie L. Ballou
Cecilia Beaux
Sarah E. Bender
Enella Benedict
Susan Hinckley Bradley
Christine S. Bredin
Fidelia Bridges
Landscape--representative work
Seascape--representative work
The Storm (image unavailable)--exhibited in
the Rotunda, Woman's Building, 1893 Exposition
Maria A'Becket, born in Maine, received her first art instruction from her father Charles E. Beckett, a drug store owner and amateur landscape painter. She later studied in Boston with William Morris Hunt and Homer Dodge Martin and in Paris with Charles Daubigny. While in Europe, she changed her name to A'Becket. Although she seems to have exhibited often, she has only recently been "rediscovered," partly for her "modern" blending of expressionist and tonalist styles and her use of a pallet-knife with chunks of paint before that style gained general popularity. Some see her seascapes as even prefiguring abstract expressionism.
Mother and Baby
--representative work
The Young Artist
--representative work
Roman Flower Girl
--representative work
San Souci (image unavailable)--oil
exhibited in Fine Arts Palace, 1893 Exposition.
Ellen Kendall Baker was born in New York and received her training in Paris from Charles Miller, Paul Soyer, and the English artist Harry Thompson (her future husband). She often exhibited in the United States and abroad. No other information is available online.
A Girl--representative work
Contrast--
representative work
Portrait of a Woman
(ivory miniature)--
representative work.
Lazy Susan--representative work
Sketches (images unavailable)--exhibited in
Illinois building, 1893 World's Exposition.
Born into an affluent Indiana family, Martha S. Baker was trained at the Art Institute of Chicago and by Charles Woodbury in Maine. Well-known for her miniature portraits as well as her watercolors and oils, Baker died at age 40 from a ruptured appendix.
A Cottage Nestled in the Woods--representative work
Bouquet of Flowers--representative work
Autumn Flowers (Chrysanthemums) (image unavailable)--
exhibited in Fine Arts Palace, 1893 Exposition
Mary Katherine Baker was born in New Bedford, MA, and evidently a largely self-taught artist. She was actively involved in the Boston artistic community, exhibiting in both Boston and Philadelphia during the 1870s and 1880s. Her paintings are signed "M K Baker." No other information is available online.
A Desert Rider 1885--representative work
Portrait of Mrs. Leland Stanford (image unavailable) c. 1893--
exhibited in the Rotunda, Woman's Building, 1893 Exposition
The mother of five children, Addie L. Ballou was also an artist, suffragist lobbyist, Spiritualist medium and trance-speaker, Civil War nurse, published poet and writer, and socialist reformer. She was born into a very large family, losing her mother at a young age (her father who helped operate the Underground Railroad before the Civil War remarried three more times) and grew up in Ohio and Wisconsin where, at age fifteen, she married Albert Darius Ballou. She was largely self-educated, but did receive limited art training at the San Francisco School of Design after the family moved to California in 1870. She spent three years painting in Australia (approximately 1882-1885) as well as in California when she returned.
Self-portrait--representative work
The Man with the Cat
(Henry Sturgis Drinker
--her brother-in-law)
[National Museum of
American Art, Smithsonian]
1898--representative work.
Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt
and Child--
representative work
Young Woman
--representative work.
Portrait Study--
representative work
Twilight Confidences--exhibited in the
Rotunda, Woman's Building, 1893.
Cardinal Mercier 1919
--representative work.
Father and Son
--representative work.
Dorothea and Francesca
1898--
representative work.
Portrait of a Boy
(Cecil Kent Drinker)
1891--exhibited in the Fine
Arts Palace, 1893 Exposition.
Last Days of
Infancy 1885--exhibited
in Fine Arts Palace, 1893 Exposition.
Born in Philadelphia, Cecilia Beaux was raised by maternal relatives after her mother died following childbirth and her French father returned to his native country. She received her art education from artist-relative Catherine Drinker who taught at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts (where Beaux later became its first full-time woman teacher) and from Robert-Fleury, Bouguereau, and Benjamin-Constant at the Académie Julian, as well as at the Academie Colarossi, in Paris. By the turn-of-the-century, many considered her one of the best portrait painters in America and she won every major art award possible at that time. Beaux became independently wealthy painting the portraits of prominent people like Theodore Roosevelt's wife and World War I leaders. In 1930 she published her autobiography Background with Figures
.
Still Life of Grapes--unclear if this painting
is
Grapes exhibited in the California Room,
Woman's Building, 1893 Exposition.
Still Life of Grapes--unclear if this painting is Tea Roses exhibited in
the Art Gallery, California State Building, 1893 Exposition
Violets--unclear if this painting is Violets
exhibited in the Board
Room,
Woman's Building, 1893 Exposition.
Born in Washington, D. C. and raised in San Francisco after 1865, Sarah E. Bender was one of the first pupils to enroll in the newly opened San Francisco School of Design and study with Virgil Williams. Her specialty was botanics, florals, and still-lives, many of which were destroyed in the 1906 earthquake. She married Harold de Wolfe.
Landscape [title unknown]--representative work
Edith 1895--
representative work
Mother and Child 1915--
representative work
Brittany Children 1892
[National Museum of Women in the
Arts]--exhibited in
Fine Arts
Palace, 1893 Exposition
Old Stories (image unavailable)--exhibited in
Board Room, Woman's Building, 1893 Exposition
Daily Bread and Counting the Ships
(image unavailable)--exhibited
in
Illinois Building, 1893 Exposition.
Enella Benedict was born in Lake Forest, Illinois to merchant Amzi Benedict and his wife Catherine Courtland, the daughter of a Chicago merchant. Enella received her training at the Chicago Institute of Art, the New York Art Students League, and the Académie Julian in Paris. She worked as an art instructor at the Chicago Institute of Art and, in 1893, became associated with Hull-House, Jane Addams' settlement house, where Benedict directed the art program for over forty years.
Venice 1899--representative work
[private collection, Venice, Italy]
Italian Villa--representative work
Mount Monadnock, New Hampshire
(image unavailable)--watercolor exhibited
in Fine Arts Palace, 1893 Exposition.
Massachusetts artist Susan H. Bradley studied art at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, as well as in Paris and Rome. In 1879 she married a Boston minister (Leverett Bradley). She traveled widely and painted landscapes throughout Europe, Egypt, and the United States.
Young Woman with Flowers
--representative work
Kitchen Scene with Mother and
Two Children--representative work
The Gossips--representative work
Christmas Morning (image unavailable)--
exhibited in Cincinnati Room, Woman's
Building, 1893 Exposition
Christine S. Bredin was born in Pennsylvania to Stephen Bredin (a physician of Huguenot ancestry) and Catherine Sloan Bredin. She studied art at the Cincinnati Academy of Art and at Academy Colarossi in Paris and with Carl Marr in Munich. Later she taught at Ohio University in Athens. Her brother Rae Sloan Bredin became a well-known Philadelphia artist.
Untitled--representative work
Chickadee and Thistle
--representative work
Lily Pads and Barn Swallows--representative work
In an Old Orchard (image unavailable)
--watercolor exhibited
in the Fine
Arts Palace, 1893 Exposition.
Fidelia Bridges was born in Massachusetts and orphaned by age fifteen. She studied art in Philadelphia under William Trost Richards, a Pre-Raphaelite advocate who greatly influenced her style. After the Civil War, she spent a year studying in Europe, returning to the U.S. and considerable success in 1869. By 1871, she had turned mostly to water-colors. She is known mainly for her delicate flower and bird paintings.
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Posted: 6-25-02; Updated: 5-3-20
