Bowditch, Nancy Douglas

Nancy Douglas Bowditch (1890-1975) was a painter, author of plays, and costume and set designer.

Born in Paris, July 4, 1890, second eldest child of painter George de Forest Brush. Married William Robert Pearmain, 1909. Pearmain died of leukemia in 1912. She later married Dr. Harold Bowditch.

From the description of Nancy Douglas Bowditch papers, circa 1860-1985. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 756820996

Painter, author of plays and costume and set designer. Born in Paris, July 4, 1890, second eldest child of painter George de Forest Brush. Married William Robert Pearmain, 1909. Pearmain died of leukemia in 1912. She later married Dr. Harold Bowditch.

Bowditch's father, Brush, made the artist-colony of Dublin, New Hampshire his American home, where Mark Twain and daughter Jean Clemens were neighbors. They spent considerable time in Paris and Italy. Dr. Harold Bowditch's father was instrumental in the development of Harvard University Medical School.

From the description of Nancy Douglas Bowditch papers, ca. 1900s-1970s. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 301785396

Nancy Bowditch (1890-1979) was a painter, a playwright, and costume and set designer.

Bowditch was born in Paris, the second eldest child of painter George de Forest Brush. Brush made the artist-colony of Dublin, N.H. his American home, where Mark Twain and daughter Jean Clemens were neighbors. They spent considerable time in Paris and Italy. Nancy married William Robert Pearmain, a childhood neighbor and later, a pupil of her father, in 1909. Pearmain died of leukemia in 1912. Subsequently, she married Dr. Harold Bowditch whose father was instrumental in the development of Harvard University Medical School.

From the description of Oral history interview with Nancy Douglas Bowditch, 1974 Jan. 30. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 646397182

Painter, author of plays and costume and set designer.

Born in Paris, July 4, 1890, second eldest child of painter George de Forest Brush. Brush made the artist-colony of Dublin, New Hampshire his American home, where Mark Twain and daughter Jean Clemens were neighbors. They spent considerable time in Paris and Italy. Nancy married William Robert Pearmain, childhood neighbor and later a pupil of her father, in 1909. Pearmain died of leukemia in 1912. She married Dr. Harold Bowditch whose father was instrumental in the development of Harvard University Medical School.

From the description of Nancy Douglas Bowditch interview, 1974 Jan. 30 [sound recording]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 245521101

Painter, author of plays and costume and set designer. Born in Paris, July 4, 1890, second eldest child of painter George de Forest Brush. Married William Robert Pearmain, 1909. Pearmain died of leukemia in 1912. She later married Dr. Harold Bowditch.

Bowditch's father, Brush, made the artist-colony of Dublin, New Hampshire his American home, where Mark Twain and daughter Jean Clemens were neighbors. They spent considerable time in Paris and Italy. Dr. Harold Bowditch's father was instrumental in the development of Harvard University Medical School.

From the description of Nancy Douglas Bowditch papers, ca. 1900s-1970s. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 80237085

Painter, author of plays and costume and set designer.

Born in Paris, July 4, 1890, second eldest child of painter George de Forest Brush. Brush made the artist-colony of Dublin, New Hampshire his American home, where Mark Twain and daughter Jean Clemens were neighbors. They spent considerable time in Paris and Italy. Nancy married William Robert Pearmain, childhood neighbor and later a pupil of her father, in 1909. Pearmain died of leukemia in 1912. She married Dr. Harold Bowditch whose father was instrumental in the development of Harvard University Medical School.

From the description of Nancy Douglas Bowditch interview, 1974 Jan. 30. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 220184668

Nancy Douglas Bowditch (1890-1975) was a painter, author of plays, and costume and set designer.

Born in Paris, July 4, 1890, second eldest child of painter George de Forest Brush. Married William Robert Pearmain, 1909. Pearmain died of leukemia in 1912. She later married Dr. Harold Bowditch.

From the description of Nancy Douglas Bowditch papers, 1888-1979. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 710018040

Painter, author of plays and costume and set designer. Born in Paris, July 4, 1890, second eldest child of painter George de Forest Brush. Married William Robert Pearmain, 1909. Pearmain died of leukemia in 1912. She later married Dr. Harold Bowditch.

Bowditch's father, Brush, made the artist-colony of Dublin, New Hampshire his American home, where Mark Twain and daughter Jean Clemens were neighbors. They spent considerable time in Paris and Italy. Dr. Harold Bowditch's father was instrumental in the development of Harvard University Medical School.

From the description of Nancy Douglas Bowditch papers, ca. 1900s-1970s. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 422874401

Nancy Douglas Bowditch (1880-1979)worked primarily in the New Hampshire area as a painter, author, and costume and set designer. Bowditch's father was painter George de Forest Brush and she married painter William Robert Pearmain, who died at an early age.

Nancy Douglas Bowditch was born to Mary and George de Forest Brush on July 4, 1880 in Paris, France. Early in her life, she often served as a subject of her father's paintings. Along with her parents and siblings, Nancy traveled between New York City, Dublin, New Hampshire and Europe throughout her childhood. The family lived in the artist coloby of Dublin, New Hampshire where Nancy became close friends with their neighbor Samuel Clemens' (Mark Twain) daughter Jean Clemens.

Nancy also met and became close to one of her father's pupils, William Robert Pearmain while traveling through Europe in 1907. Two years later, Nancy married Robert at the Brush family farm in Dublin, New Hampshire. Together, they had one daughter, Mary Alice whom they called Polly. Robert developed a strong political interest in growing anarchist movements and, in 1912, gave up painting and went to Pittsburgh to work in a factory. Shortly after, he became seriously ill and, upon the advice of a doctor, moved back to New Hampshire with Nancy. He soon died from Leukemia in September 1912. In 1918, Nancy married Dr. Harold Bowditch from Boston, Massachusetts. With her second husband, Nancy had a son whom she named after her father, George de Forest Bowditch.

Professionally, Nancy worked as a painter, wrote plays, and designed theatrical sets and costumes. In 1971, Bowditch published a biography of George de Forest Brush entitled The Joyous Painter . Nancy Douglas Bowditch died in 1979.

From the guide to the Nancy Douglas Bowditch papers, 1888-1979, (Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution)