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M. Lesley Bush-Brown
Katherine A. Carl
Mary Cassatt
Minerva Chapman
Alice Chittenden
Gabrielle de Veaux Clements
Josephine Cochrane

Margaret White Lesley Bush-Brown (1857-1944)

Ellen Day Hale 1910--oil
[National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian]
representative work.
 

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

A noted New York portrait painter and etcher, Margaret Bush-Brown studied art at the Philadelphia School of Design for Women, at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts with Thomas Eakins, and at the Académie Julian in Paris.  Her etching skills were developed by  Gabrielle De Vaux Clements. She continued painting and exhibiting after marrying sculptor Henry Kirke Bush-Brown.

Woman Fishing in a Canal (etching) 1885
A Normandy Market (etching) 1885)

Katharine ("Kate") Augusta Carl (1854-1938)

Quarry Wall --representative work
 

Tzu Hsi--This may or may not be Carl's
 portrait of the Empress Dowager of China
 

Head of a Man (image unavailable)--
exhibited in Fine Art Palace, 1893 Exposition

Kate A. Carl was born in New Orleans and studied art at the Female Academy in Memphis, Tennessee, and in Paris at the Académie Julian.  In 1903 she lived for ten months in the Imperial Chinese Court while she painted a portrait of Tzu Hsi, the last Empress Dowager of China, an experience Carl wrote about in With the Empress Dowager of China (1905).  Carl lived in China until 1930, but maintained contacts with the art community in Memphis.

Mary Cassatt (1844-1926)

Go to separate web page: 

Mary Cassatt's Lost Mural and Other Exhibits at 1893 World's Exposition

Minerva Josephine Chapman (1858-1947)
 

Landscape--representative work
 

Flanders Housewife-- representative work.

Still Life with Apples and Mirror (oil)-- representative still life.

Turning in the Road (?) 1898-- representative work

Etude Fleurs--representative work.

Portrait of a Bearded Man--
representative work
 

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

Born in New York, Minerva Chapman studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and in Paris at the Académie Julian. She frequently exhibited and won medals in both Europe and the United States for many years, retiring in the 1920s in California.  She was the first woman president of the International Art Union and a founding member of the miniature painting society.

Biography
Biography/many images (click on "Examples of her Work")
Biography and several images
A Studio Corner 1898.
Still Life: A Shelf in the Studio, Paris 1889

Alice Brown Chittenden (1859-1944)

Palace of Fine Arts, Exposition Hall--or here
impressive example of her work.
 

Yellow Roses [title unknown]-- representative floral

Still Life with Flowers-- representative floral.

Chrysanthemums (1892)--representative work
 

It is unclear which work(s) Chittenden exhibited at the 1893
Exposition, but the record states that she won a silver medal.

Born in New York, Alice Brown Chittenden was raised in San Francisco where she studied art and later taught at the School of Design. Although she painted landscapes, she is especially remembered for her paintings of 350 varieties of California wildflowers. Over the years she also made several trips to New York, France, and Italy to study and exhibit.

Biography
Roses, 1898--scroll down the page to Chittenden's name
Children on the Beach
Hollyhocks
California Springtime, c. 1920
Biography/several images--click on "biography" and on "Examples of her Work"
Wildflowers along the Coast c. 1912.
4 images
Violets c. 1900
Peonies c. 1910
Still Life

Gabrielle de Veaux (or Vaux) Clements (1858-1948)

Mont Michel--representative work
 

Winter, Mount Vernon Place 1925-- excellent example of her etching.

The Harbor, Baltimore 1926-- representative etching.

Garden Path Lined with Iris--
representative work
 

Andarina (image unavailable)--oil
exhibited in Fine Arts Palace, 1893 Exposition.

Gabrielle de Veaux Clements was a Philadelphia-born artist who studied at the Philadelphia School of Design for Women, the Académie Julian in Paris, and in Italy.  Clements met painter Ellen Day Hale in 1883; they became lifelong companions, summering in Rockport, Massachusetts with artists like Cecilia Beaux and wintering in Charleston where they taught etching, a skill for which Clements became well-known and which she taught to Hale. For a period of time, Clements taught art at Bryn Mawr School in Baltimore.

3 etchings--click on "Works in the Collection by this artist"
3 more images--etchings
An Old Saint, Chartres Cathedral, 1885
Fort Dumpling and Beavertail Light 1887
Washington Monument 1896--earlier etching
8 images
Nativity Scene c. 1930
Angel on Wood Panel--attributed to Clements.
Biography/3 images--click on "Examples of her Work"

Josephine Granger Cochrane (1864-1953
 

The Little Black Windmill (oil)-- representative work.

Darkey Town, Lynchburg, Virginia-- representative work

Old Stone Stairway, Pont Aven, France
 (image unavailable) -- exhibited in
Fine Arts Palace, 1893 Exposition.

Josephine G. Cochrane was a Connecticut painter of landscapes and still lifes.  She was born in Philadelphia and studied art in Paris at the Académie Julian. Evidently she sometimes exhibited under her initials:  J. G. Cochrane.  No more information is available online.
 

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Posted: 6-25-02; Updated: 09-09-07