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U.S. Women Painters: 1893 Chicago World's Fair & Exposition Continued--page 6

U.S. Women Painters

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Mariquita S. Gill
Rosalie Lorraine Gill
Kathleen H. Greatorex
Lillian S. Greene
Helen Gregory
Alice V. Guysi
Jeanette Guysi
Johanna Woodwell Hailman
Ellen Day Hale
Mary Hallock-Foote
Maria Hallowell
Annie L. Harmon
Ida C. Haskell
Adele M. von Helmold
Lucy D. Holme
Edith M. W. Howes
Grace Carpenter Hudson
 
 

Mariquita S. Gill (1861 - 1915)
 

A Bit of our Garden, Giverny--representative work
 

A Grey Day, Giverny, France and A Mid-summer Morning,
Giverny (images unavailable) -- exhibited
 in the Fine Arts Palace, 1893 Exposition.

Mariquita S. Gill was born in Montevideo, Uruguay and studied art in New York at the Art Students League and in Paris at the Académie Julian.   Discovering the impressionists (particularly Pissarro. along with Monet), she moved to Giverny during the 1890s and enthusiastically painted and studied their methods. Returning to America, she spent the remainder of her career in Massachusetts and exhibited often.

Biography/Images --click on  "Examples of Work"
River Landscape in Winter c.1905
Arbor in Salem, Massachusetts

Rosalie Lorraine Gill (1867 - 1898)
 

The Orchid (Portrait of Mother and Child) 1889--
exhibited at 1893 Exposition.

Twilight on St. Ives Bay and Portrait of Miss Inglis
(images unavailable)--exhibited in the
Fine Arts Palace, 1893 Exposition.

Chat (image unavailable)--exhibited in Rotunda,
Women's Building, 1893 Exposition

Born in New York, Rosalie Lorraine Gill was raised by a father, a third-generation tea-importer, who encouraged her interest in art.  She began studying at the Art Students League in New York at age twelve, later under William Merritt Chase,  and was winning awards by age 17.  By 1888 she was in Paris studying under Alfred Stevens and exhibiting .  She and her husband Rene Lara remained in Paris the rest of their lives.  Her married name and title are Mme. Rene Lara, Comptesse de Chalan.

Biography

Kathleen Honora Greatorex (1851-1913)
 

  Wicker Weavers, Ellenville, NY (glassworks) --
representative work
 

Carnival and Corner of the Strozzi Palace, Florence
(images unavailable)--two watercolors
exhibited in Fine Arts Palace, 1893 Exposition.
 

Bateau Lavoir-Moret (image unavailable)--exhibited in
Rotunda, Women's Building, 1893 Exposition

Born in New Jersey, Kathleen H. Greatorex studied art under her artist-mother (Eliza Pratt Greatorex)  and in New York, Rome, and Munich.  During the 1880s and 90s, she exhibited in Paris and Chicago and taught art in New York.  Her sister, Eleanor, was also an artist. The three Greatorex women artists were part of the art colony in Cragsmoor, New York and traveled extensively in Europe, Africa, and the U.S.

Biography/image--click on "Biography" and "Examples of Work."

Lillian S. Greene  (1856-1940)

My Garden, Kennebunk--
representative work
 

St. David, Quimperle--representative work
 

Modesty 1885--representative work

A Brittany Landscape (image unavailable)--
exhibited in Fine Arts Palace, 1893 Exposition

Lillian Greene was born in New York and trained in Boston at the Museum of Fine Art and in Paris at the Académie Julian under Jules-Joseph Lefebvre and Tony Robert-Fleury.  She married William Greene.  No other information is available online.

Helen Barber Gregory ( ?? - ?? )
 

Joy--exhibited in panel of the frieze in the
Reception Room,  Illinois Building, 1893 Exposition

Helen Gregory was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan to John and Julia Gregory.  She was a student at the Art Students League of New York  and at the Academy Colarossi in Paris and evidently lived for a time in the District of Columbia.  No other information is available online.

Alice Viola Guysi (1863 - 1940)
 

[title unknown]--representative work

Girl and Geese [very poor scan]--
exhibited in the Cincinnati Room,
Women's Building, 1893 Exposition

Alice V. Guysi was born in Cincinnati to Harriet and George W. Guysi, city official.  Educated at home and exhibiting locally by age sixteen, she and her artist sister Jeanette Guysi both studied art with Art Students League in New York and in Paris at the Colarossi Academy during the 1880s and early 1890s.  The sisters exhibited in the Women's Building at the 1893 Exposition and moved to Detroit where they both had productive careers as art educators in the Detroit Public Schools and at the Detroit Museum School of Art.

Jeanette Guysi (1873-1966)

Courtyard Airaines in Pieardie France 1893--
exhibited in Women's Building, 1893 Exposition

Jeanette Guysi was born in Cincinnati to Harriet and George W. Guysi, city official.  Educated at home, she and her artist sister Alice V. Guysi both studied art with William Sartain at the National Academy of Design and in Paris at the Colarossi Academy during the 1880s and early 1890s.  The sisters exhibited in the Women's Building at the 1893 Exposition and moved to Detroit where they both had productive careers as art educators in the Detroit public schools and at the Detroit Museum School of Art.

Johanna (Knowles) Woodwell Hailman (1871-1958)
 

Southwest--representative work

Nassau (Bahama Island Port Scene)-- representative work

Portrait of Alice Herron Woodhall 1924--
representative work
 

Study Head of a Young Girl (oil) and Portrait of Miss L (watercolor)
(images unavailable)--exhibited in Fine Arts Palace, 1893 Exposition.

Johanna Woodwell Hailman was born into a wealthy Pennsylvania family and trained primarily by her artist-father (Joseph Woodwell) and at the Pittsburgh School of Design for Women. She traveled widely, painting landscapes in Europe and the Bahamas, but is especially known for her paintings of the flowers in her garden and for industrial Pittsburgh scenes. Hailman was an early supporter of the city beautification movement.  She married steel industrialist James H. Hailman.

Biography--click on "biography"
Pittsburgh River Scene 1929

Ellen Day Hale (1855-1940)
 

June -- representative work.

Self-Portrait (1885). Another image here.  [Museum of Fine Art, Boston] Representative  work.

Morning News--representative work.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman--
representative work
 

2 dry points, both titled Study of a Head, and
the oil Under the Vine (images unavailable)--
exhibited in Fine Arts Palace, 1893 Exposition.

Ellen Day Hale was born into a well-known Massachusetts family (her father was the celebrated clergyman-orator-writer Edward Everett Hale who became Chaplain of the U.S. Senate; her great-great-uncle was the Revolutionary War patriot Nathan Hale; her great-aunt was Harriet Beecher Stowe; and her cousin was the author and well-known feminist Charlotte Perkins Gilman).  She first studied drawing with her aunt Susan Hale and later in Boston, Philadelphia, and Paris at Académie Julian. A member of what is now referred to as the Boston School of Painting, Hale has been recognized as one of America's leading women impressionists.  She also wrote History of Art (1888).  Her artist brother Philip Hale also exhibited at the Chicago World's Fair.  Her lifelong friend and companion was Philadelphia artist Gabrielle de Vaux Clements.

Biography
Biography
The Summer Place--exhibited at 1904 World Fair
Portrait of John G. Carlisle, Speaker of the House
20 images--click on additional pages at bottom of screen
Northern Plains Native American Woman
Images
Biography/Images--click on "Examples of Work" and on "Biography."
The Vegetable Cart, Charleston--scroll down the page.
Ponte Delgada, Azores 1921
Spring Day Boston
Folly Cove, Cape Ann

Mary Hallock-Foote (1847-1938)
 

A Pretty Girl of the West (1889)--
illustration for Century Magazine.

On the Way to the Dance--representative work
 

Afternoon at a Ranch and The Hill Pastures (images unavailable)--
exhibited in East Gallery, Women's Building, 1893 Exposition

Known as the "Dean of Women Illustrators," Mary Hallock Foote was born into a New York family of Quaker farmers.  She received her art training at the New York Cooper School of Design for Women, the only school in the 1860s with an adequate art curriculum for women.  Many of her illustrations and stories for the major magazines were based on her experiences living in the West with her engineer husband.  One of the few women jurors at the 1893 World Fair, Foote juried the chalk, charcoal, pastel, and other drawings.

Biography
Biography/Image--click on "Biography" and "Examples of Work"
The Hermit Thrush
The Mourning Dove
Bird Songs
Afternoon on the Ranch
image
The Last Trip in
Illustration for Louisa May Alcott fiction
Preface to her book and several illustrations; her fiction and poetry can be found here, here, and here. Short Story here.

(Maria) May Hallowell (Loud) (1860-1916)
 

Portrait of a Girl--representative work

Portrait of a Boy with his Toy Sword (1894)--representative work

Seated Woman in Pink Dress--
representative work
 

Two Portraits (images unavailable)
exhibited in Fine Arts Palace, 1893 Exposition

Born in Massachusetts, Maria ("May") Hallowell trained at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts and at Cowles Art School in Boston and at the Académie Julian in Paris under Tony Robert-Fleury and others.  She was an active exhibitor in the late 1880s through 1910 in Paris, Philadelphia, and Boston. Evidently her main work was in portraits, but she was also known as an art educator.  She married Joseph Prince Loud, an architect.

Anne Lyle Harmon (1855-1930)
 

Clearing in the Woods--representative work
 

Haystacks--representative work
 

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

Annie Lyle Harmon was born in San Francisco and studied art under California artists William Keith and Raymond Yelland.  In the San Francisco earthquake and fire of 1906, 480 of her paintings were destroyed.

Images--click on "Examples of Work"
Train Bridge, Pasadena CA

Ida C. Haskell (1861-1932)

Dunes (1900)--representative work
 

Mother Love [alternate title: Where Trouble Ends]--
exhibited in Fine Arts Palace, 1893 Exposition

Born in California, Ida Haskell received art training in Chicago, Philadelphia, New York, and Paris at the Académie Julian.  Evidently her subsequent career alternated between New Orleans and California, but she settled in New York later in life.  No more information is available online.

Biography/images--click on "Biography" and "Examples of Work."

Adele M. von Helmold (Read) (1858 - 1905)

Floral Still Life--representative work

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

A Philadelphia painter, Adele von Helmold studied art under William Merritt Chase and Thomas Anshutz at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art.  Her married name was Read.  No more information is available online.

Biography/Images --click on "Biography" and "Examples of Work"

Lucy D. Holme (1848 - 1928)
 

Field Laborer--representative work
 

Portrait of Seated Woman-- representative work

Peasant Woman with Pitcher, Rome-- representative work

A Holiday Occupation--exhibited  in the
Fine Arts Palace, 1893 Exposition

Lucy D. Holme was a Quaker who was born in Elsinboro, NJ and studied art with William Sartain and Thomas Eakin at the Pennsylvania Academy of Art in Philadelphia and  with Gustave Courtois and Jean Andre Rixens in Paris.  After traveling for several years around Europe, she taught art for many years in Philadelphia.  No more information is available online.

Edith M. W. Howes (active 1879 - 1903)

Distant View of Boston 1891--representative work
 

In the Orchard (image unavailable)--oil
exhibited in Fine Art Palace, 1893 Exposition.

Edith M. Howes studied art in Boston, where she also exhibited and took an active role in local art associations.  No more information is available online.

Washing Day
Cutting Garden in Bloom (c. 1890)

Grace Carpenter (Davis) Hudson (1865-1937)
 

[Title unknown] Sleeping Baby and Dog--representative work
 

Little Mendocino-- exhibited at the 1893 Exposition.

Old Indian Sitting-- representative work

Grace Carpenter Hudson was raised primarily in Potter Valley, California where her mother was one of the first school teachers for the Pomo Indians. Carpenter studied at Hopkins Art Institute in San Francisco with Virgil Williams and Oscar Kunath.  She married John Hudson, an ethnologist of Indian cultures. At the 1893 Chicago World Fair, her painting of the crying Indian baby called "Little Mendocino" received so much attention that she decided to specialize in Indian themes, and she spent most of the rest of her life actively participating in Indian cultures. The Grace Carpenter Hudson Museum houses the 30,000 Indian objects she and her husband collected.

Biography/images--click on "Biography" and on "Examples of Work."
3 Images (Baby Bunting 1894; The Seed Conjurer 1896; Joseppa 1933)
Hudson and Dog--1914
Mendocino Streamside
Captain John (Ab-ba-ba-pomo)

 

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Posted: 6-25-02; Updated: 12-18-11