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U.S. Women Painters: 1893 Chicago World's Fair & Exposition Continued--page 5

U.S. Women Painters

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Lydia Field Emmet
Ellen Burpee Farr
Katherine Levin Farrell
Ellen Thayer Fisher
Harriet Campbell Foss
Mary Odenheimer Fowler
Eurilda L. France
Lucia Fairchild Fuller
Elizabeth Gardner

Lydia Field Emmet (1866-1952)
 

Self-Portrait--representative work
 

Grandmother's Garden (1912)--representative work.
 

Springtime--representative work
 

Dorothy--exhibited at 1893 Exposition

In Her First Youth-- representative work

Seal of the New York State Board--
exhibited in Women's Building, 1893 Exposition
 

The Mere; Noonday; and A Portrait
 Sketch by Lamplight (images unavailable)--
exhibited in Fine Arts Palace, 1893 Exposition.

Art, Science, and Literature--go to Mural page.
Mural in the Woman's Building, 1893 Exposition.

Lydia Field Emmet of New York came from a very large and talented family that included her artist mother, her artist sister Rosina (Emmet) Sherwood, her artist cousin Ellen (Emmet) Rand, and her writer cousin Henry James. She studied at the Art Students' League in New York, in Paris under Robert-Fleury, Bouguereau, and others, at the Shinnecock School of Art under W.M. Chase, and in a private studio under MacMonnies.  She also became part of the American summer colony of artists near Monet's home in Giverny. Her artwork also included stained glass windows for Tiffany & Co. and illustrations for Harper's magazine.  She won a medal at the 1893 Exposition.

Biography
In Her First Youth. (Alternate copy here).
4 images (portraits of children) 1914--click on images to enlarge.
Olivia 1911 and Harriet Lancashire White and Her Children 1922--excellent images (National Gallery of Art).
Biography/4 images--click on "Biography" and "Examples of Work"
Portrait of Thomas Ewing III ca. 1932
Mistress Mary Quite Contrary
The Brothers
Portrait of a Girl
Early Sketches and Watercolors--click on links and thumbnails
Angela Fowler --scroll down the page.

Ellen Frances Burpee Farr (1840-1907)
 

It is unclear which work(s) Farr
exhibited at the 1893 Exposition.

Ellen B. Farr was born in New Hampshire and attended the New Hampton Institute and Thetford Academy. After her husband (U.S. Congressman Farr) died, she set up her studio in Boston, but moved to California in 1887. Farr was one of the early women artists in the West, often painting the pepper trees, Indian baskets, and missions of the Pasadena area.

Biography
Indian Crafts 1888
Mission San Gabriel Arcangel c. 1902--scroll down the page.
Biography/images --click on "Biography" and on "Examples of Work."
Images/biography

Katherine Levin Farrell (1857-1951)
 

Dock Scene--representative work
 

Five Pound Island, Gloucester (etching and painting)
 and Gloucester Wharf (etching) exhibited in
Pennsylvania Building and in Women's
 Building, 1893 World's Exposition.
 

An accomplished etcher, Katherine Farrell was born in Philadelphia and studied art at the Philadelphia School of Design for Women and at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts under Thomas Eakins, and later at the Philadelphia Museum School of Art and at the Drexel Institute, as well as in Taos.  At the 1893 Exposition, her works were exhibited both in the Ladies' Parlor of the Pennsylvania Building and in the Women's Building.

Biography/images
A Gray Day, Gloucester, Massachusetts (c. 1905)
Oak Leaves 1925 (see large image).

Ellen (Bowditch) Thayer Fisher (1847-1911)
 

Born in Massachusetts but raised in New York, Ellen Thayer Fisher was a largely self-taught artist; her brother (Abbott Thayer) got to attend the Brooklyn Art School and National Academy of Design.  She became very successful selling her floral watercolors to the Prang Company well-known for its greeting cards.  She was married to Edward Thornton Fisher.

Biography/1 image--scroll down to "Biography" and "Examples of Work"
Floral Still Life

Harriet Campbell Foss (1860-1938)
 

A Flower Maker (1892) --
exhibited in Fine Arts Palace, 1893 Exposition.

Born in Connecticut, Harriet Campbell Foss was the daughter of a Methodist minister/college teacher.  She attended Smith College in Massachusetts and later studied art at the Women's School of Design at Cooper Union in New York and also in Paris. Foss exhibited often and also taught painting at the Women's College of Baltimore, Maryland.  She often signed her paintings "H. Campbell Foss" to avoid gender discrimination.  The production of artificial flowers, shown in the above painting, was a type of low-paying job that employed many urban women who could do the piecework at home while attending to children or aging parents.

Harriet Campbell Foss, page 1--four paintings
Harriet Campbell Foss, page 2--four paintings
Biography/image

Mary (Berrian) Odenheimer Fowler (c. 1845 - 1898)
 

Still Life [title unknown]--representative work
 

Marie (image unavailable)--exhibited in
the Fine Art Palace, 1893 Exposition

Born and raised in Philadelphia, Mary Odenheimer Fowler was the daughter of the Episcopal bishop of New Jersey.  She studied art at the Philadelphia Art School and in Paris under Carolus-Duran and Jean-Jacques Henner.  Also a writer, she contributed articles on art techniques to art journals and wrote short stories.  Her husband was portrait painter Frank Fowler. 

Eurilda Q. Loomis France  (1865-1931)
 

Vases and Flowers--representative work

My Garden (1894) --representative work.

In Flanders--representative work
 

Preoccupation--exhibited in the Rotunda,
Women's Building, 1893 Exposition

Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania where her father was involved in the glass making industry, Eurilda Loomis France studied art in Paris at the Académie Julian under Carolus-Duran and with other artists.  Her later career was associated with New York and Connecticut.  She was married to artist Jesse Leach France.

Biography/images--click on "Biography" and "Examples of Work"
Abundance 1925
Portrait of a Donkey

Lucia Fairchild Fuller (1872-1924)
 

Girl with Hand-Glass--representative work
 

Pres d'Une Claire Fontaine (By a Clear Fountain) 1907-- [National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian] representative work

Portrait of Hettie Sherman Evarts Beaman, (c. 1901)--ivory miniature. Representative work.

Portrait of Boy with a Hat
(Neil Fairchild) 1891 [my scan]--exhibited
 in the Fine Art Palace, 1893 Exposition.
 

Women of Plymouth--go to Mural page.
 exhibited in Women's Building, 1893 Exposition.

A well-paid miniature portraitist, Lucia F. Fuller was born in Massachusetts into a prominent political family. She trained at the Cowles Art School in Boston and in New York at the Art Students League under William M. Chase and others. After she married artist Henry Brown Fuller, she switched from murals to miniature painting. The Fullers moved in 1897 to the art colony at Cornish, New Hampshire. In 1899, along with several other painters, Fuller founded the American Society of Miniature Painters. Her career was cut short, before age forty, by multiple sclerosis.

The Poison of Non-fulfillment--Fuller's legacy to her child: avoid the disappointment of art!
Study by Candlelight 1891
Head of a Young Girl--c. 1900.
Portrait of a Child (Clara B. Fuller)

Elizabeth Jane Gardner (Bouguereau) (1837-1922)
 

David the Shepherd and the Lion--
representative work
 

Letter to Grandson (1890)-- representative work

Priscilla (1888) (photogravure) --representative work

Soap Bubbles (or here) (c. 1891)--oil
 exhibited in Fine Arts Palace, 1893 Exposition.

Elizabeth Gardner from New Hampshire was the first American woman to invade the all-male world of the French art academies and the first both to exhibit and to win a gold medal at the Paris Salon.  When she first arrived in Paris in 1864, she had to get special permission from the police to dress in male clothes so that she could enroll in the all-male Gobelin's Tapestry School.  There she met her future husband William Adolphe Bouguereau, a well-known and older painter who helped open up Académie Julian to Elizabeth and other women students.  They did not marry until late in life, so the majority of her career was under the name "Gardner," but her sentimentalized genre paintings were strongly influenced by Bouguereau's idealized allegorical style.

Biography/images---click on "Biography" and "Examples of Work"
Biography
In the Woods; another copy here
The Shephard David c. 1895
5 images
3 images
A La Fontaine

 

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