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U.S. Women Painters: 1893 Exposition Continued--page 11

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Mary Herrick Ross
Emily Sartain
Sarah C. Sears
Amanda Brewster Sewell
Annie B. Shepley

Mary (Paxton Herrick) Ross (1856 - 1935)
 

Sunlit Poppies--scroll down the page. representative work.

Point Lobos Pines c. 1915-1925-- representative work.

Waves on a Rocky Shore 1918--
     representative work
 

Apple Trees (or here)--representative work
 

It is unclear which work(s) Ross
exhibited at the 1893 World Fair.

Born in San Francisco, Mary H. Ross began her art studies under her father, but later became the first pupil to enroll in the San Francisco School of Design when it opened in 1874.  She was known for her still life and floral paintings.  Ross was her married name.

Biography--scroll down the page to Ross' name.
Biography

Emily Sartain (1841 - 1927)
 

Portrait of a Young Girl--
representative painting

Welcome News c. 1890 (engraving)--
exhibited in Pennsylvania Building, 1893 Exposition.
(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.)

Marie (oil) 1881 and In the Twilight (etching)
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.

Biography
Biography of Sartain family
Biography/1 image
Philadelphia's Cultural Landscape--the Sartain Family Legacy
Biography of Family
The Golden-Rayed Lily of Japan--watercolor
Red Rose--watercolor

Sarah (Choate) Sears (1858 - 1935) 
 

Mrs. Julia Ward Howe--representative work
 

Regal Lillies--representative work
 

Romola (or here)--exhibited at 1893 Exposition.

Born into a prominent Boston family, Sarah C. Sears was educated at home and later later studied art with Boston impressionist Ross Sterling Turner, the famous John Singer Sargent, and others and at the Cowles Art School in Boston. In 1893, her watercolor Romola won a national award at the Watercolor Society Exhibition. She also painted portraits and still-lifes, later taking up photography. 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.  She won a medal at the 1893 Exposition.

Biography/1 image
Stained glass window (enlarged detail)--at Wells College, Aurora, New York.
Short Biography/image (Regal Lilies)--scroll down the page.
The Fine Art of Sarah Choate Sears--longer biography and assessment of her work.

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(Lydia) Amanda Brewster Sewell (1859 - 1926)
 

Portrait of a Lady--representative work
 

Bacchanal--representative work
 

By the River--oil exhibited in  Fine Arts Palace, 1893 Exposition.

French Landscape--may suggest the colors for By the River (image on left).

Washing Place in the Gatinais 1886 [my scan]--
oil 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.
 

An Arcadian Melody 1890--
oil exhibited in Fine Arts Palace, 1893 Exposition.
The image is crudely colored (by an engraver?).
See large B&W version titled Pleasures of the Past.

Mother and Son 1889--oil exhibited
in Fine Arts Palace, 1893 Exposition.

Portrait of Mrs. Boudinot Keith c. 1888 (image unavailable)
oil exhibited in Fine Arts Palace, 1893 Exposition.

Arcadia 1893--go to Mural page
Mural exhibited in Women'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.

2 images--click on "Image Gallery" (Arcadian Melody; Bacchanal)
Woman with Flowers--

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Annie Barrows Shepley (?? - ??)

Go to U.S. Women Painters, p. 12

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Text written by K. L. Nichols
 

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Posted: 6-25-02; Updated: 4-26-07