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Mary Herrick Ross
Emily Sartain
Emily Maria Spaford Scott
Jeannette Scott
Sarah C. Sears
Amanda Brewster Sewell
Annie B. Shepley
Rosina Emmet Sherwood
Alice Barber Stephens
Sunlit Poppies--
representative work.
Point Lobos Pines
c. 1915-1925--
representative work.
This painting may or may not be
A Rose
which was exhibited in the
California
State Building, 1893 Exposition
Born in San Francisco, Mary H. Ross began her art studies under her father, artist William Fredrick Herrick. Her mother was Lucy Finnes Kendall Herrick, and two of her sisters (out of seven siblings) also became artists. Her father was also a wealthy businessman who helped establish the San Francisco School of Design in 1873, with Mary becoming the first pupil to enroll. There she studied with Virgil Williams and Raymond Dabb Yelland. After studying for a couple years with her two artist-sisters in Europe, she returned to the San Francisco area to set up her studio and home with her husband Collin Ross. She was known for her still life and floral paintings.
[Untitled]--
representative work.
Portrait of a Young Girl--
representative work.
Portrait of a Young Girl
--
representative work.
Daffodils--
representative work.
The Reproof
--
representative work.
Welcome News c. 1890 (engraving)
(A young wife, holding a letter from her husband in the Civil
War, consults a map of the U.S. as her parents look on.)--
exhibited in Pennsylvania Building, 1893 Exposition.
Marie and In the Twilight 1893 (images unavailable)
--exhibited in Fine Arts Palace, 1893 Exposition.
Emily Sartain and her seven brothers were the fourth generation of engravers in this Philadelphia family. She studied first with her engraver-father (John Sartain) and then at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and in Paris under Evariste Luminais. In 1871-2, she and Mary Cassatt traveled to Italy together to study art. Sartain became well-known for her later engravings and by the 1880s was also principal at the Philadelphia School of Design for Women which she developed into a highly respected School of Commercial and Fine Arts. Sartain was one of the few women chosen to judge art at the 1893 World Fair.
Still Life with Plums
--exhibited in the Fine Arts
Palace, 1893 Exposition
Still Life with Lemons--
representative work.
Still Life with Roses
c. 1890--
representative work.
Still Life with Currants--
representative work.
Roses and Still Life and White Rose and
Summer Roses (images unavailable)--
exhibited in Fine Arts Palace, 1893 Exposition
Cherries (image unavailable)--exhibited in the
Rotunda, Women's Building, 1893 Exposition
Carnations and Petunias (images unavailable)--
exhibited in the Connecticut Room, Women's
Building, 1893 Exposition
Emily Maria Spaford Scott was born in Springwater, New York to Thomas Lawrence Spafard, a lumber merchant, and his wife Almira Baldwin. She studied art at the Art Students League, the National Academy of Design, and in Paris under Raphael Collin for two years. While married to a lawyer (Scott), she lived in Iowa, but, when widowed, returned to New York where she taught art and co-organized the New York Watercolor Club. She was often invited to read papers containing her original opinions on art-related topics before women's clubs throughout the country.
Blue Teacup--
representative work
Portrait of a Young Lady--
representative work.
Hollyhocks (image unavailable)--
exhibited in Fine Arts Palace, 1893 Exposition
Jeannette Scott was born in Ontario, but moved to the U.S. as a child. Forbidden by her father to study art, Jeannette hardly waited for his funeral to end before enrolling in the Philadelphia School of Design and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. She studied under Emily Sartain, while her sisters headed off immediately for medical and academic studies. Jeannette also studied in Paris at the Académie Julian and the Académie Colarossi with Gustave Courtois, Joseph Blanc, and Alphonse Mucha. Returning to New York, she became professor of painting at Syracuse University, later becoming head of the painting department. Due to her insistence, her female students were allowed to take life classes which included male models (in gym shorts, of course).
Poppies--representative work
Flowers--
representative work
Regal Lilies--
representative work
Romola--exhibited in
Fine Arts Palace, 1893 Exposition.
A Spanish Girl and
Portrait (images unavailable)--
exhibited in Fine Arts Palace, 1893 Exposition
Born into a prominent Boston family, Sarah C. Sears was educated at home and later studied art with Boston impressionist Ross Sterling Turner, the famous John Singer Sargent, and others and at the Cowles Art School in Boston. She painted portraits and still-lifes, later taking up photography as well. As a wealthy Boston patron of the arts, Sears financed Prendergast's travels to Italy, promoted post-impressionists like Cezanne, and collected paintings by her friend Mary Cassatt. Her image has been immortalized in John Singer Sargent's brilliant portrait titled Mrs. J. Montgomery Sears. Her painting "Romola" is based on George Eliot's novel by the same name and was interpreted by some as the "type" of the American "coming woman," head held up high as she disdainfully renounces the past.
(NOTE: Several online sources, citing my webpages, claim incorrectly that "Romola" is "Ramona" and that the painting "Romola" is the same as "A Spanish Girl"--which is actually a different painting also exhibited at the Exposition.)
Self-portrait--representative work.
A Bacchanal--
exhibited in Fine Arts Palace, 1893 Exposition.
Sappho 1891--oil exhibited in Fine Arts Palace, 1893 Exposition.
A Sylvan Festival--oil exhibited in Fine Arts Palace, 1893 Exposition
Portrait of Florida
Scott-Maxwell--
representative work.
By the River--exhibited in the
Fine Arts Palace, 1893 Exposition.
Washing
Place in the Gatinais
1886 [my scan]--exhibited
in the Fine Arts Palace,
1893 Exposition.
Portrait of Mrs. Boudinot Keith c. 1888
(image unavailable)
exhibited in Fine Arts Palace, 1893 Exposition.
Arcadia 1893--go to
Mural page
Mural exhibited in Woman's Building, 1893 Exposition.
New York artist, Amanda Brewster Sewell studied art in New York at the Art Students League with William Merritt Chase and William Sartain and in France with William Bouguereau at the Académie Julian, as well as with Carolus-Duran. Her paintings were often on Arcadian and classical themes and won medals at the 1893 World Fair and at other exhibitions. She was married to mural painter Robert Van Vorst Sewell.
The Red Hat--
Portrait of a Scandinavian Girl--
representative work
Portrait of a Young Woman
--representative work.
Portrait of Artist's Neice
[Rosamund Sargeant]
--representative work.
Work and Play (image unavailable)--exhibited in
Rotunda, Women's Building, 1893 Exposition.
The Wonderful Story (image unavailable)--
exhibited in Fine Arts Palace, 1893 Exposition.
Annie B. Shepley studied art in New York under H. Siddons Mowbray and under Lucien Simon and Jules Lefebvre at the Académie Julian in Paris. Becoming known as a portait painter and illustrator of children's books, she set up studios in New York and, later, in Connecticut. After her marriage to Hyozo Omori, she lived for many years in Japan where she translated the Japapanese classic book "Lady Murasaki" into English. For her heroic service during the 1922 earthquake, she was decorated by the Japanese government.
Two Sisters--
representative work.
Girl Reading--
representative work.
A Woman Seated upon
a Haystack--
representative work.
Septembers--
representative work.
The Black Cuchrade 1892--
may be The Black Cockade
(misspelled?) which was
exhibited in
the Fine Arts
Palace, 1893 Exposition.
Portrait of Anna
Marguerite Achelis--
representative work.
Portrait--exhibited in
the Woman's Building,
1893 Exposition.
Portrait--exhibited in
the Woman's Building,
1893 Exposition.
Anon Comes April in
her Jollity 1892--
exhibited in the Woman's
Building, 1893 Exposition.
Cinderella--exhibited
in the Woman's Building,
1893 Exposition.
Title unknown--This may be
Sleeping Child which was exhibited
in the Connecticut Room, Woman's
Building, 1893 Exposition, as was
another painting called Portrait.
Three watercolors--September; In
the Orchard;
Sunlight in the Orchard; and
View in
Central Park
(images unavailable)--exhibited
in Fine Arts Palace, 1893 Exposition.
The Republic Welcomes her Daughters 1893--
go to Wall Mural Page--exhibited in
Woman's Building, 1893 Exposition.
Rosina Emmet Sherwood was born into a well-known New York family which included many artists, such as her sister Lydia Field Emmet, her cousin Ellen Emmet Rand, and others. She studied art with William Merritt Chase in New York and with Tony Robert-Fleury at the Académie Julian in Paris. After her marriage, she gave up commissioned portraits while raising (and painting) five children, but due to financial problems, she began painting for money again around 1900. Her son Robert would become a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright.
Self-Portrait--representative work.
Spring Study (image unavailable)--exhibited
in Fine Arts Palace, 1893 Exposition.
Heir to the Singer Sewing Machine fortune,Winnaretta E. Singer or "Win" was the 20th of 24 children of Isaac Singer and his first and second wives. Born in New York, Winnaretta and her family lived most of their lives in Paris and England. A number of the family achieved celebrity in several different areas; Winnaretta herself was married to two different princes (non-sexual arrangements) while carrying on regular and publically-known lesbian love affairs with a number of prominent and artistic women, including married women. Her musical talents were sometimes featured at her famed musical salons which introduced the avant-garde works of a number of famous contemporary composers, and writers like Marcel Proust regularly frequented her salons. She also engaged in significant social works, especially during World War I. Little information on her painting career is available online, but she was an accomplished painter who exhibited in the Académie des Beaux-Arts.
Self-Portrait--
representative work.
The Cardinal 1880--
representative work.
Beggars in Sympathy (image unavailable)--
exhibited in the Board Room,
Woman's Building, 1893 Exposition.
Courtyard Il Bargello, Italy and
Campanile of Santa Croce, Florence, Italy
(images unavailable)--exhibited in
the Woman's Building, 1893 Exposition.
Mary Solari was an Italian-American artist born in Calvari, near Genoa, Italy but raised in Memphis, Tennessee. As a young woman, she returned to Florence, Italy to study art, but all the academies were closed to women. She studied with Casioli, while she lobbied vigorously for a number of years for women to be admitted to the Italian government schools. In 1885 she was finally accepted into the Academy of Florence. Back in Memphis for the rest of her life, she was active as an artist, advocating for a city art museum and for art education in the public schools, and as a community prison and hospital reformer. She gave most of her art collection to the Christian Brothers University in Memphis.
Female Life Class c. 1879 --
commissioned by Pennsylvania Academy
while Stephens was there studying art.
Untitled [the Ivory Soap Woman]--
representative work.
The Red Coat [sketch]
representative work.
Spring Morning in the Park
--representative work
Untitled landscape 1892--representative work
Pan-American International
Exhibition 1915--
representative work.
Pennsylvania Railroad
Station--suggestive of
Rainy Day Effect in
Philadelphia c. 1890 which
was exhibited in Fine Arts
Palace, 1893 Exposition.
Spring from my Window in Florence
1887--representative work
Sylvia--
representative work.
At the Statue of Joan of Arc, Philadelphia
--representative work.
In the Open Air--
representative work.
A Philadelphia Quakeress
--exhibited in the Fine Arts
Palace, 1893 Exposition.
In the Meeting--exhibited in
Woman's Building,
1893 Exposition.
Their Perfume Flooded the
House 1892--exhibited
in the Fine Arts Palace,
1893 Exposition.
Harvesting in the Meadow and Music
(images unavailable)--
exhibited in
Fine Arts Palace, 1893 Exposition.
Alice Barber Stephens was a painter and engraver, as well as a well-known illustrator for major magazines such as Scribner's Monthly and Harper's Weekly. Born into a Quaker family in New Jersey, she received her earliest training at the Philadelphia School of Design for Women and at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts under Thomas Eakins. Although she worked primarily with pen and ink drawings--she had many commissions for illustrations of books by major authors such as Longfellow, George Eliot, Conan Doyle, and Hawthorne--she also engaged in oil painting, mainly for relaxation, which she took up during a trip to Europe in 1886-7 during which she studied at the Académie Julian and the Académie Colarossi in Paris and did some sketching in Italy. In later years she taught at the School of Design for Women. She married artist Charles Stephens.
The Germania Orchestra at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts 1891
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Text written by K. L. Nichols
Painting, top of page: Marie Konstantinovna
Bashkirtseff,
In the Studio (1881).
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Posted: 6-25-02; Updated: 5-13-20
