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U.S. Women Painters: 1893 Chicago World's Fair & Exposition Continued--page 4

U.S. Women Painters

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Sophia T. Darrah
Maria Oakey Dewing
Blanche Dillaye
Julia Dillon
Anna Van Cleef Dodgshun
Sarah P. Dodson
Pauline A. Dohn
Mattie Thweatt Dubé
Fannie Duvall
Susan MacDowell Eakins
Allegra Eggleston

Ann Sophia (Towne) Darrah  (1819-1881)
 

Figures near a Shore--representative work
 

On the Coast Near New Bedford (image unavailable)--
exhibited in Fine Art Palace, 1893 Exposition

Growing up in Philadelphia, Ann Sophia Darrah was more interested in music than in her father's modern art collection, but after she married (Darrah), she began studying art with Paul Weber and later in Europe.  A proponent of plein-air painting, she is often associated with the White Mountains of New Hampshire, an area sought out by many artists.  Her paintings exhibited at the 1893 Exposition were part of the historical retrospective on American art.

Biography/4 images--click on "biography" and "Examples of Work"
Biography
Mount Washington

Maria Richards (Oakey) Dewing (1845 1927)
 

Garden in May (1895)--with commentary
(alternate sources here or here).
 

Carnations (1901)--representative work

Irises and Calla Lillies (1882-90)-- representative work

Portrait of a Lady (1878)--
representative work
 

The Costumer (1924) --representative work

It is unclear which work(s) Dewing exhibited at the 1893
Exposition, but the record states that she won medals (plural).

Maria Oakey Dewing was born in New York and studied art at the Cooper Union School of Design for Women and the Antique School of the National Academy of Design, as well as with La Farge in Paris in the 1870s. After she married the well-known figure-painter Thomas Wilmer Dewing in 1881 and gave birth to her daughter, she painted only still-lifes (to avoid competing with her husband?). The Dewings spent their summers in the art colony of Cornish, New Hampshire where her garden became famous and the inspiration for many of her paintings. Late in life, she admitted that she regretted abandoning figure paintings.

Dewing, Maria Richards Oakey--click on "biography" and on "Examples of Work" (Garden in May)

Blanche Annie Dillaye (1851 - 1931)
 

Crescent Moon--representative work
 

Italian Canal Scene --
representative etching

Mist on the Cornish Coast; Early Morning,
 Dordrecht Canal; Sardine Wharf, Eastport ;
Lights of Venice (images unavailable)--
exhibited in Women's Building, 1893 Exposition.

Blanche Dillaye was born into a well-to-do New York family and studied art at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and in Paris.  She was known for her work in a variety of artistic media (painting, watercolors, etching, jewelry, posters) and as a writer and Director of Art Education at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.

Julia McEntee Dillon (1834-1919)
 

Floral (1890)--
representative work
 

Parrot Tulips in a Black Vase-- representative work

Yellow Roses-- representative work

Peonies (1890)--oil exhibited in Fine Arts Palace, 1893 Exposition.

Julia Dillon was a Kingston, New York artist who studied in Paris with Georges Jeannin, Harry Thompson, and her cousin Jervis McEntee, a Hudson River School artist, in the 1870s. Still-life paintings of roses, chrysanthemums, and other flowers were her specialty. She married John Dillon; widowed in the 1873, she remained a partner in the family business McEntee and Dillon Rondout Foundry and Machine Shop which helped fund her art career.  In 1915 she published the book Old Gardens of Kingston.

Image/biography
Biography/image
5 images

 
Anna Van Cleef Dodgshun (c. 1856 - 1945? )
 

The Old Picket Fence in a Landscape 1889--
exhibited in Illinois Building, 1893 Exposition
 

Old Shanties at St. Joes--exhibited in
Illinois Building, 1893 Exposition
 

Summer Time and A Little House in the Meadow
(images unavailable)--exhibited in
 Illinois Building, 1893 Exposition.

Anna Van Cleef Dodgshun was born in New Jersey and studied art under George H. Smillie.  She may have also taught art for a time.  No other information is available online.

 
Sarah Paxton Ball Dodson (1847-1906)
 

The Honorable Mrs. Mark Napier--
representative work
 

Malvern Abbey -- representative work
 

The Signing of the Declaration of Independence  (1883) --
 representative work
 

L'amour Ménétrier (Cupid the Fiddler)-- representative work

Psyche Carried Away by the Zephyrs 1883 [Museum of Fine Arts, Boston] --representative work

 The Bacidae (1883)
(two priestesses of Bacis in a prophetic ecstasy
"reading" chicken entrails) -- representative work
 

Etoiles du Matin (The Morning Stars) 1887 --
exhibited in Fine Arts Palace, 1893 Exposition

 

Wall mural--go to Women's Building page. 
Exhibited in Pennsylvania Building, 1893 Exposition.

Sarah P. Dodson was born in Philadelphia and began her first art studies under Christian Schussele at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts after the death of her artist-father who did not encourage her interest in art. After studying in Paris under Evariste Vital Luminais and, later, Jules Lefebvre, she became a permanent expatriate, living in Brighton, England after 1891 and specializing in grand academic paintings on classical and biblical subjects. One of her well-known historical works is her large "The Signing of the Declaration of Independence" (1883).  She exhibited often and turned more to landscape painting in her later years.

Biography--click on "biography"
Wild Parsley--excellent landscape
2 images

Pauline Amalie Dohn (Rudolph) (1865-1934)

Collecting Pears (c. 1895)--
representative work.

Inter-State Industrial Exposition 1873--
representative work
 

The Industrial Arts [frieze]--panel in frieze in the Reception
Room, Illinois Building, 1893 Exposition
 

What the Stork Brought  c. 1892 -- [mother at
window showing the new baby to two older children]
very poor image of the painting exhibited
in the Fine Arts Palace, 1893 Exposition
 

Portrait of Mrs. M.W. Means (image unavailable)--
exhibited in the Rotunda, Women's
 Building, 1893 Exposition
 

A Letter from the Fatherland (image unavailable)--
exhibited in the Illinois Room, 1892 Exposition

Pauline Dohn was one of Chicago's most important women artists at the turn of the century. The daughter of a musician, she studied in Chicago at the Art Institute, in Philadelphia under Thomas Eakins, and in Paris and the Netherlands with Boulanger, Lefebvre, and Lazar.   Back in Chicago, she taught at the School of the Art Institute and shared a studio with artist Annie Weaver Jones.  She married a Chicago businessman (Rudolph) in 1901.  Her painting of the Inter-State Industrial Building is on the cover of Chicago History, Spring 1987.

A Village Belle 1899
The Seeker 1897

[Martha] Mattie [Jane] Thweatt Dubé (1854-1944)
 

The Adoration 1895--representative work
 

La Fleur Fane (1892)-- representative work

Pause for Remembrance (1898)-- representative work

Wood Nymph (1896)-- representative work

Garland for Putti-- representative work

   Pumpkins and Onions
(Still Life with Pumpkin and Fish)
(1891) [my scan]--oil exhibited in
Fine Arts Palace, 1893 Exposition.

Mattie Thweatt Dubé, the youngest of ten children, was born in Clarendon, Arkansas, and received her art training first in Nashville,  then at the Boston Academy of Fine Arts, and later in Munich and in Paris under W.M. Bouguereau and Tony Robert-Fleury.  After she married artist Theodore Dubé, the two maintained a studio in Paris for many years.  Although she won medals and other honors in Paris (she was the first woman to receive a gold medal from the Paris Art Salon in 1896), she gave up painting when her beloved daughter Theodora died of T.B. in 1916.

Fannie Eliza Duvall (1861-1934)
 

Sycamore amidst the Forest--representative work
 

Chrysanthemum Garden in California --
exhibited in Fine Art Palace, 1893 Exposition.
 

Study of Onions (image unavailable)--
exhibited in Fine Art Palace, 1893 Exposition.

California impressionist Fannie Duvall was born in New York and studied at the Art Students League. She taught in Syracuse before moving to Los Angeles. After 1900, she also spent part of her time in Paris studying under Whistler at the Grande Chaumiere. She is remembered for her landscapes and floral still lifes.   The painting Chrysanthemum Garden in California (see above) was destroyed in a fire in 1991 in Oakland, CA.

Biography
Forest (watercolor)
Biography/images--click on "Biography" and "Examples of Work"

Susan (Hannah Macdowell) Eakins (1851-1938)
    

Portrait of Thomas Eakins (1889)-- exhibited in Fine Arts Palace, 1893 Exposition.

Two Sisters [Mary and Elizabeth Macdowell] (1879)  -- representative work

Woman Seated 1880--representative work

Girl Studying [title unknown]-- representative work

Reflection 1881(image unavailable)--
exhibited in Fine Arts Palace, 1893 Exposition.

Susan Macdowell Eakins was born in Philadelphia where her father was a respected engraver and highly supportive of her artistic interests.  After seeing Thomas Eakins' realistic painting The Gross Clinic in 1876, she enrolled in the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts so she could study with him.  She painted only sporadically after they married in 1884, but she still managed to win many awards for her portraits and domestic scenes in the academy's annual exhibitions.  After his death, she returned avidly to her painting.

Biography, plus 2 images
Biography/3 images--click on "Examples of Work" and on "biography
Portrait of Leroy Ireland
The Tennis Player --scroll down the page to see her painting.

Allegra Eggleston (1860-1933)
 

Reading Study (1876)--
representative work
 

Portrait Sketch--exhibited in
Women's Building, 1893 Exposition

Allegra Eggleston was known primarily as an illustrator.  She studied at the Cooper Institute in 1875 and in Switzerland (woodcarving), and exhibited annually at the Society of American Artists.  At least one book by her father, Edward Eggleston, was illustrated by Allegra.

 

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Posted: 6-25-02; Updated: 12-21-11