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U.S. Women Painters: 1893 Exposition Continued--page 12

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Rosina Sherwood
Alice Barber Stephens
Fanny Tewksbury
Frances H. Throop
Alice Kellogg Tyler
Ida Waugh
Cecilia E. Wentworth
Annie Davenport Whelpley
Sarah W. Whitman
Adeline Albright Wigand
Unknown artists

Rosina Emmet Sherwood (1854 - 1948)
 

Cuchrade--This may be The Black Cockade  (misspelled?) which was exhibited in  Fine Arts Palace, 1893 Exposition.

Two Sisters 1910--representative work

Portrait of Anna Marguerite Achelis-- representative work

Prize-winning Design for Louis Prang  Greeting Card Contest, 1881.

Study of a Child 1914-- representative sketch.

Study of a Child 1917-- representative sketch.

Cynthia and Philip Sherwood 1897
--representative work
 

Portrait--exhibited in Women's Building, 1893 Exposition

Portrait--exhibited in Women's Building, 1893 Exposition

Anon Comes April in her Jollity 1892
(Harper's Magazine illustration)--exhibited
 in Women's Building, 1893 Exposition
 

Child Sleeping in Hammock [title unknown]--
exhibited in Women's Building, 1893 Exposition.
 

Three watercolors--September; In the Orchard;
Sunlight in the Orchard --and Sleeping Child
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
Women'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 Academie 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

Portrait of Jane Emmet (Sherwood's sister) 188-(?)
Visual Thinking: Sketchbooks from the Archives of American
Cynthia Sherwood:  The Artist's Daughter (watercolor)
Biography/5 images--click on "Image Gallery" and on "biography"
4 images--click on images to enlarge (Savannah; Pineapple Gate; Forsythe Park; Charleston Garden Wall)
Savannah
Forsythe Park 1919--watercolor (or here)
The Hallway c. 1890
23 drawings--unfortunately, they are very small images.
The Toy Doll

Alice Barber Stephens (1858 - 1932)

Spring Morning in the Park--light-filled effect suggests the
Rainy Day Effect in Philadelphia c. 1890 (image unavailable)
which was exhibited in Fine Arts Palace, 1893 Exposition.
 

Pan-Pacific International Exhibition, 1915 -- representative work

Female Life Class c. 1879--or here. commissioned by Pennsylvania Academy while Stephens was there studying art.

In the Meeting--exhibited in
Women's Building, 1893 Exposition
 

Harvesting in the Meadow (no image available)--
oil 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 training at the Philadelphia School of Design for Women, at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts under Thomas Eakins, and at the Academie Julian in Paris.  She had many commissions for illustrations of books by major authors such as Longfellow, George Eliot, and Hawthorne. In later years she taught at the School of Design for Women.  She married artist Charles Stephens.

Biography/11 images--click on "Image Gallery" and on "Biography"
Alice Fisher Philadelphia Hospital Nursing Superintendent 1887
Woman on white horse reviewing troops c. 1890 (alternate copy here).
The Germania Orchestra at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts 1891
Woman Giving Little Boy Piano Lessons (watercolor)
The Woman in Society 1897 (The American Woman series)
The Woman in Religion 1897 (The American Woman series)
The American Girl in Summer 1897 (The American Woman series)
The Woman in Business 1897 (The American Woman series)
The Beauty of Motherhood 1897 (The American Woman series)
Illustrations for Sarah Orne Jewett's "An Everyday Girl"
Illustrations for The Mayor's Wife (1907), by Anna Katharine Green
Illustrations for Diane Mulok's John Halifax, Gentleman
Illustration for Hamlin Garland's A Son of the Middle Border
The Nursery 1898 (ad based on Stephen's painting)
Knitting
Woman Giving Little Boy Piano Lesson

Fanny B. (Wallace) Tewksbury (1852 - after 1934)

Orchard -- representative work

A New England Homestead--exhibited
in Fine Art Palace, 1893 Exposition

Fanny Tewkesbury was an artist from Massachusetts.  No other information is available online.

Frances Hunt Throop (Ordway) (1860 - 1933)
 

Spring Carnations--exhibited in
Fine Arts Palace, 1893 Exhibition.

Portrait of a Lady (image unavailable)--
exhibited in Fine Arts Palace, 1893 Exhibition.

Frances H. Throop was a New York artist who studied at the Art Students League and in Paris. "Ordway" was her married name.  No more information is available online.

2 images--click on "image gallery."

Alice (De Wolf) Kellogg Tyler (1862 - 1900)
 

House in Landscape--representative work
 

The Mother 1889 [my scan]; see large b&w copy--or here--oil exhibited in Fine Arts Palace, 1893 Exposition.

Road Home-- representative work

Young Man--representative work

Self-Portrait--representative work

Intermezzo c.1892 and Portrait of Miss G.E.K.
 (images unavailable)--
exhibited in Fine Arts Palace, 1893 Exposition.

Illinois native Alice Kellogg studied art at the Chicago Academy of Design and in Paris at Academie Julian and Academie Colarossi.  On the basis of "The Mother," painted while she was a student at the Academie Julian, she was elected to The Society of American Artists, an organization which rarely admitted midwesterners or women. A reproduction of "The Mother" was the frontispiece to the 1893 Century Illustrated Magazine. In 1894, she married Orno James Tyler. She painted many portraits for the Union League of Chicago and taught at the Art Institute of Chicago until her death at age 37.

Biography/3 images
Biography/12 images
Portrait, Jane Addams--drawing or Portrait, Jane Addams, from a Charcoal Drawing by Alice Kellogg Tyler 1892 or here.
Out of Work or Out of Work
A French Country House c.1895, plus biographical information.
House in a Landscape
Standing Woman
Portrait of a Lady

Ida Waugh (1819 - 1919)
 

Young Mother--representative work

Playtime (1890)--representative work

Bouquet of Tulips--representative work
 

Old Trinity Church 1910
[Holding Institution: Maryland Historical Society]
--representative work

Hagar and Ishmael 1889 [my scan]--oil
exhibited in Fine Arts Palace, 1893 Exposition.

Ida Waugh was born in Philadelphia and trained at home by her painter-father Samuel B. Waugh (her mother may have also been a painter), at the Pennsylvania Academy, and at the Academie Julian in Paris. Her work has almost disappeared, but was often on religious-allegorical themes or scenes of Dutch life.  Her illustrated children's books were produced with her lifelong companion Amy Blanchard who owned a neighboring summer cottage in Maine.  Waugh's half-brother was the well-known marine painter Frederick Judd Waugh.

4 images
lithograph (boy's head) 1890
Conversation in a Dutch Landscape c.1910--scroll down the page

Cecile (E. Smith) de Wentworth (1853 - 1933)
 

Prayer c. 1891--oil exhibited in the
Women's Building, 1893 Exposition.

Born into a prominent New York family, expatriate artist Cecile de Wentworth trained in Paris at the Beaux-art Academie with Alexandre Cabanel and Édouard Detaille. She painted the portraits of many prominent people. Her portrait of Pope Leo XIII hangs in Vatican City; the Pope decorated her with the title of Grand Commander of the Order of the Holy Sepulcher and conferred on her the papal title of Marchesa. She also won the Chevalier de la Legion, one of France's highest honors. After her marriage to Josiah W. Wentworth, she was known by the name Mme C. E. Wentworth.

Biography--click on "biography" 
Woman with Lily
The White Lily
Charles Joseph Bonaparte c. 1900

Annie (Vincent Davenport) Renouf Whelpley (1852 - c. 1928)

Portrait of Mlle. Hausen c. 1892--
exhibited in Women's Building, 1893 World's Exposition.

Annie Davenport Whelpley, who exhibited under the name "A. Renouf Whelpley," trained in Munich and was married to Edward A. Renouf.  No other information is available online.

Sarah (de St. Prix) Wyman Whitman (1842 - 1904)
 

Martin Brimmer 1892 -- [Museum of Fine Arts, Boston] representative work

Portrait of Oliver Wendell Holmes 1892-- photogravure of oil painting [Moody Medical Library,  University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston] exhibited in Fine Arts Palace, 1893 Exposition.

A Warm Night about 1889
[Museum of Fine Arts, Boston]
--representative seascape
 

Evelyn (1896)--representative work
 

Song (1883)--representative work
 

Niagara (1892) (image unavailable)--oil
exhibited in Fine Arts Palace, 1893 Exposition.
May also have exhibited Portrait of Robert Codman 1883.

Sarah Whitman was born in Maryland and trained in Boston and Paris. She became well-known as a painter, illustrator, and designer of stained glass. Her Houghton Mifflin cover designs for Sarah Orne Jewett books and others inaugurated in the early 1880s what has been called "the golden age of American artist-designed bindings." She is the author of Robert Browning in his Relation to the Art of Painting.  Sarah Orne Jewett edited the Letters of Sarah Wyman Whitman in 1907.

Biography--click on "biography"
Roses—Souvenir de Villier le bel 1877 or 1879--click on image to enlarge
Rhododendrons about 1880--click on image to enlarge
Edge of Evening at Annisquam 1901--click on image to enlarge
Gloucester Harbor early 1880s or early 1890s--click to enlarge
Sunset c.
Autumn Marshes 1882--click to enlarge
Evelyn
Dedication of Jewett's book 1890 Strangers and Wayfarers
Silver goblet and pitcher; Sterling silver goblet
Stained glass window; more here (Courage, Love, and Patience).
Stained Glass Windows 1--scroll down to Whitman's window; Stained Glass Windows 2--scroll down to Whitman's window
Historic Campus Preservation--scroll down to Whitman's windows

Adeline Albright Wigand (1855 - 1944)
 

Portrait of Mrs. J. Albright [Portrait of My Mother]--
[from the collection of the Staten Island Museum]
exhibited in Fine Arts Palace, 1893 Exposition

Born in Iowa, Adeline Albright Wigand studied art in New York at Cooper Union and the Arts Students League and in Paris at Academie Julian.  After marrying artist Otto Wigand (who also exhibited at the 1893 Exposition), she maintained a portrait studio in New Jersey, moving later to New York.
 

Mystery Painting

Religious procession painting (artist/title unknown)--
exhibited in the Women's Building, 1893 Exposition.
See more unidentified women's art displayed
in the Women's Building, 1893 Exposition.
 

Some of the above information came from these sources:

Jeanne Madeline Weimann, The Fair Women, Chicago 1981.

F. Graeme Chalmers, Women in the Nineteenth Century Art World, Westport 1988.

Paul V. Galvin, World's Columbian Exposition of 1893, Library Digital History Collection, Illinois Institute of Technology.
 

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Text written by K. L. Nichols
 

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Posted: 6-25-02; Updated: 10-28-07