Women pioneers in Maine art collection, circa 1985.

Dewing, M. O. (Maria Oakey), 1855-1927

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O'Keeffe, Georgia, 1887-1986

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Georgia O’Keeffe is one of the most significant artists of the 20th century, renowned for her contribution to modern art.Born on November 15, 1887, the second of seven children, Georgia Totto O’Keeffe grew up on a farm near Sun Prairie, Wisconsin. By the time she graduated from high school in 1905, O’Keeffe had determined to make her way as an artist. She studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and the Art Students League in New York, where she learned the techniques of traditional painting. Th...

Kirkpatrick, Alice Harmon Shaw, 1913-1994

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Barry, Edith Cleaves (American painter and designer, 1883-1969)

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DiMatteo, Roberta Wright, 1913-2004

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Schmidt, Katherine, 1898-1978

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Katherine Schmidt (1898-1978) was a still life painter from New York, N.Y. From the description of Oral history interview with Katherine Schmidt, 1969 Dec. 8-15. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 779477554 From the description of Oral history interview with Katherine Schmidt, 1969 Dec. 8-Dec. 15 [sound recording]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 123380125 Katherine Schmidt Shubert was an artist and a member of the Woodstock, N.Y. summer circle of artists. Her first husb...

Joan Whitney Payson Gallery of Art

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Carleton, Anne, 1878-1968

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Barker, Lucy Hayward, 1872-1948

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Painter; Maine. An American Impressionist portrait painter, Barker studied with Edmund Tarbell, Philip Hale and Frank Benson at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston School. From 1898 to until her marriage to Roy Barker in 1906 she had a studio in Boston. After marriage and motherhood, she resumed her career in 1929 in Presque Isle, Maine. From the description of Lucy Hayward Barker papers, 1898-1992. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 227192560 ...

Breck, Bernice, 1905-1990

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Knopf, Nellie Augusta, 1875-1962

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Woodward, Mabel May, 1877-1945

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Zorach, Marguerite, 1887-1968

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Also contains correspondence to William Zorach, husband of Marguerite Zorach. From the description of Correspondence with Theodore Dreiser, 1931. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155895905 ...

Nevelson, Louise, 1899-1988

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Sculptor; New York, N.Y.; d. 1988. From the description of A Conversation with Louise Nevelson, 1980 [sound recording]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 123419967 Sculptor; interviewee d.1988. From the description of Reminiscences of Louise Nevelson : oral history, 1977. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122419737 Sculptor (New York, N.Y.) Died in 1988. From the description of Louise Nevelson interviews, 1964 Ju...

Emmons, Dorothy Stanley, 1891-1960

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Jensen, Dorothy Hay, 1910-1999

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Art administrator; Maine. Supervisor of the Federal Art Project in Maine, 1936-1941; gathering information for the Index of American Design was one phase of their work. The Index of American Design was a research division of the Federal Art Project of the Works Progress Administration which produced approximately 20,000 reproductions (photographs and original drawings) and classifications of a wide variety of American art, paintings, sculpture, handicrafts and folk art. ...

Bacon, Peggy, 1895-1987

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Peggy Bacon (1895-1987) was a printmaker from Cape Porpoise, Me. From the description of Oral history interview with Peggy Bacon, 1973 May 8 [sound recording]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 77599946 Margaret Frances (Peggy) Bacon lived from 1895 to 1987. She was a teacher, artist, illustrator and author known for her humorous satires. She wrote and illustrated many books for children, among them Mercy and the Mouse, Off with Their Heads, and The Ghost of Opalina. She also i...

Howland, Isabella, 1895-1974

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Painter; Woodstock, New York. From the description of Isabella Howland papers, 1895-1973. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 82223553 ...

Baxter, Mehetabel Cummings Proctor

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Ipcar, Dahlov Zorach, 1917-

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Artist and author/illustrator of children's books who frequently paints animal subjects. From the description of Dahlov Ipcar papers 1947-1981. (University of Southern Mississippi, Regional Campus). WorldCat record id: 37958672 American author and illustrator of children's and young adult books; along with Margaret Wise Brown's other illustrators and editors, Dahlov Zorach Ipcar was honored with the 1984 Kerlan Award. From the description of Papers, 1917-1987 (bu...

McPherson, Sarah Freedman, 1894-1978

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Barry, William David

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Conrad A. and Mary Ellen Roberge moved from Tingwick, Quebec to Biddeford, Me., in 1947 where they bought a house and raised nine children. Mary Ellen was a noted seamstress and doll-maker. Her daughters, Celeste and Estelle, became prominent artists. From the description of Roberge family collection, 1984-2009. (Maine Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 399873455 Curator of the exhibit "Women Pioneers in Maine Art, 1900-45" at the Joan Whitney Payson Gallery of...

Woodbury, Marcia Oakes, 1865-1913

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Painter; Boston, Mass. Born Susan Marcia Oakes. She was a student of painter Charles Woodbury in 1888 in Boston in his School Street studio. They were married in June 1890, and went on their first European trip in August to continue their art studies. Much of their married life was spent abroad in Holland. She is known for her studies of Dutch children. According to a date handwritten on her obituary, she died on November 13, 1913. A memorial exhibition of Woodbury's wor...

Fiske, Gertrude, 1878-1961

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Painter. Fiske studied at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, under such luminaries as Tarbell, Benson and Hale, and later with Charles Woodbury in Ogunquit, Maine. A woman of means and socially well-connected, Miss Fiske was a co-founder of the Guild of Boston Artists (1914), the Boston Society of Etchers (1917), and the Ogunquit Art Association (1928). From the description of Gertrude Fiske papers, 1915-1986, 1915-1933 (bulk dates). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 1225025...

Sage, Cornelia, 1913-1971

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