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Painter, Teacher |
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Born: Il, lived MO, NY, Gloucester, MA |
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Studied: the St. Louis School of Fine Arts. She also studied at the Arts Students League with Twachtman, Appleton, Clark and Kenyon Cox and instructed there from 1910-1914 |
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Member: National Association of Women Painters and Sculptors |
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Awards: the Watrous Prize in 1911 |
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She served on Juries of Selection and Award with notables of her time such as Bessie Potter Vonnoh and Cecilia Beaux |
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Her painting style was impressionist, with attention to qualities of light, deliberate brushstrokes and rich colors. She was influenced by and painted with John Sloan. In her landscapes and seascapes one can see the influences of the French modernists, utilizing spatial planes and abstract patterns |
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She specialized in painting independent, dignified portraits of women. Known to few, but later found in her estate, were many paintings of landscapes, harbor scenes, and interiors |
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Exhibitions |
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National Academy of Design |
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Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts |
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Society of Independent Artists |
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Carnegie Inst. |
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Brooklyn Museum |
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Smithsonian |
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Literature |
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“American Women of the Twenties, and Exhibition of paintings by Agnes Richmond”, 1870-1964, Jeffrey Alan Gallery, NY, 1981 |
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Who was Who in American Art |
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