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1870 |
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Born |
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1892 |
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Married Fred Williams Lumis, an architect living in Springfield, Massachusetts |
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1912 |
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First submitted her works at the age of forty-two to the Albright Gallery in Buffalo |
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1913 |
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Showed three of her canvases in the 1913 annual exhibition of the Connecticut Academy of the Fine Arts |
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1913 |
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Exhibited at the Providence Society of Artists |
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1919 |
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One of the founding members of the Springfield Art League |
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1920 |
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At the age of fifty, she attended Hugh Breckenridge’s summer school at Rocky Neck, in Gloucester, home of America’s celebrated artists’ colony |
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Little is known about Harriet’s childhood and adolescence |
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Received a well rounded education at the Connecticut Literary Institution in Suffield |
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Her first formal painting instructor was Willis S. Adams (1844-1921) and she produced her first landscapes under his influence, resulting in works in the tonalist tradition |
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Studied at the New York Summer School at Mianus, near Cos Co |
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