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U.S. Women Painters: 1893 Exposition Continued--page 4

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Sophia T. Darrah
Maria Oakey Dewing
Blanche Dillaye
Julia Dillon
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

Glass Head, Manchester, Massachusetts--
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
Mount Chocorua, New Hampshire 1856
 

Maria Richards (Oakey) Dewing (1845 1927)
 

Iris at Dawn (1899)--
representative work.
 

Garden in May (1895)--with commentary
(alternate sources here or here).
One of her most famous paintings. or here
 

Carnations (1901)--representative work

White Roses--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)
The Mother

Blanche Annie Dillaye (1851 - 1931)
 

Crescent Moon--representative work
 

Italian Canal Scene --
representative etching

Mist on the Cornish Coast; Early Morning,
 Dordrecht Canal; and Sardine Wharf,
Eastport (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.

Edward Foulke's House
Chinatown, Monterey

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.

Pink Roses-- representative work

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
2 images
Basket of Daisies and Lilacs
Floral Still Life
5 images

 
Sarah Paxton Ball Dodson (1847-1906)
 

The Honorable Mrs. Mark Napier--
representative work
 

The Bacidae (1883) [my scan]-- (Two priestesses of Bacis in a prophetic ecstasy while "reading" chicken entrails.) Outstanding example of her work.

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

Saint Thekla (Une Martyre or Saint Thechla) (1891)
[National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian]
--exhibited in Fine Arts Palace, 1893 Exposition.
 

Honey of Hymettus 1891 and
The Morning Stars 1887 (images unavailable)--
oils 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 studied painting at the Pennsylvania Academy after the death of her artist-father who did not encourage her interest in art. After studying in Paris, she became a permanent expatriate, living in Brighton, England after 1891, and specialized 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
The Wych, Malvern c.1892
In Ashdown Forest, Sussex c.1899
Le Berceau
2 images

Pauline Amalie Dohn (Rudolph) (1865-1934)

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

Inter-State Industrial Exposition 1873--
representative work

What the Stork Brought c. 1892 (image unavailable)--
oil exhibited in Fine Arts Palace, 1893 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 art schools, in Philadelphia under Thomas Eakins, and in Paris and the Netherlands.   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 (1861-1944)
 

Pause for Remembrance (1898)--
representative work
 

La Fleur Fane (1892)--
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
 

Confirmation Class, San Juan Capistrano Mission
(1897)--representative work
 

Chrysanthemums (1891)--Somewhat suggestive of her
Chrysanthemum Garden in California which was
exhibited in the 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.

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 (1879) [my scan]-- representative work [Mary and Elizabeth Macdowell]

Portrait of Luigi Maratti (1932)-- typical later work.

Woman Reading -- representative work

Woman in Plaid Shawl--
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
Music 1878
Figure Study: Woman Sewing 1882-84
Figure Study:  Seated Old Woman in Black
Woman Reading
Biography/3 images--click on "Examples of Work" and on "biography
John Reynolds (portrait)
Still Life with Figure
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: 10-25-07