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U.S. Women Painters: 1893 Chicago World's Fair & Exposition Compiled by K. L. Nichols

U.S. Women Painters

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Ellen K. Baker
Martha S. Baker
Mary K. Baker
Cecilia Beaux
Enella Benedict
Susan Hinckley Bradley
Christine S. Bredin
Fidelia Bridges
Matilda C. Browne

Ellen Kendall Baker (Thompson) (1839-1913)
 

Mother and Baby--representative work

The Young Artist--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.

Martha Susan Baker (1871-1911)

Portrait of a Woman (ivory miniature)
--representative work
 

Sketches (images unavailable)--untitled sketches
 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. 

Mary Katherine Baker (c. 1841 - 1934)
 

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.

Cecilia Beaux (1855-1942)
 

Self-portrait (1894)--representative work
 

Portrait of a Boy (Cecil Kent Drinker) (1891)--  exhibited in the Fine Arts Palace, 1893 Exposition.

Man with the Cat (Henry Sturgis Drinker) [National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian] (or here) (1898)--portrait of her brother-in-law,

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.

Biography/image--The Dreamer.
Biography/image--Self-Portrait 
Cecilia Beaux and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts--long biography
Aimée Ernesta and Eliza Cecilia: Two Sisters, Two Choices--excellent and detailed biography of Cecilia and her sister and her career.
Ethel Page (Mrs. James Large), 1884, pastel
2 images (Dorothea and Francesca and New England Woman).
George Watson Gilder; Colonel John Shaw Billings, M.D.
Biography, plus 7 portraits
Sarah Doyle
Self Portrait --1920.
Mrs Stedman Buttrick (and child).

Enella Benedict (1858-1942)

Landscape [title unknown]--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, Women's Building, 1893 Exposition
 

Daily Bread and Counting the Ships
(image unavailable)--exhibited in
Illinois Building, 1893 Exposition

Illinois artist Enella Benedict 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.

Susan (Hinckley) Bradley (1851-1929)

Venice (1899)--representative marinescape.
[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.

Christine Sloan Bredin (1860-1934)
 

Young Woman with Flowers--representative work
 

Kitchen Scene with Mother and Two Children--
representative work
 

Christmas Morning (image unavailable)--exhibited in
Cincinnati Room, Women's Building, 1893 Exposition

Christine S. Bredin studied art at the Cincinnati Academy of Art and Academy Colarossi in Paris.  Later she taught at Ohio University  in Athens.  Her son Rae became a well-known Philadelphia artist.

Fidelia Bridges (1834 - 1924)
 

Untitled (watercolor) (c. 1876) [National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian] --representative work

Birds by the Shore-- representative work

Bird Perched upon a Wild Mullein (1877) --representative work

Birds, Flowers and Pine Cones--
representative watercolor
 

Lily Pads and Barn Swallows (1873)--representative work

In an Old Orchard (image unavailable)--watercolor
exhibited in 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.

Bird's Nest and Ferns 1863 oil painting.
Untitled 1876--click on image to enlarge. (This one is different than the untitled painting shown above.)

Matilda C. Browne or Brown (van Wyck) (1869-1947)
 

Old Woman--representative painting

Vorhees--representative work

Floral Bouquet--representative work

Bucolic Landscape--two door panels. (Is the left one "Unwilling Model," listed below?)

The Herd Coming Home The Herd Coming Home--representative work

An Unwilling Model  (c. 1892)  (image unavailable)--
[a calf tied to a tree and tugging on it]
exhibited in Fine Arts Palace, 1893 Exposition.

Born in New Jersey, Matilda Browne was a child protégé who began her art studies with artist-neighbor Thomas Moran, Eleanor and Kate Greatorex, and other local artists. Later studies were undertaken in Paris at the Académie Julian and in the Netherlands. She exhibited in Paris and Pennsylvania and was the first woman artist asked to join the famous art colony in Old Lyme, Connecticut. Browne also did book illustrations for her writer-husband Frederick Van Wyck.  She received an Honorable Mention at the 1893 Exposition.

Full Bloom
Biography/9 images--click on "Examples of her Work" and on "Biography."
 

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Posted: 6-25-02; Updated: 5-10-12