Annie Cornelia Shaw

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Annie Cornelia Shaw (born September 16, 1852 in Troy , † August 31, 1887 in Chicago ) was an American landscape and genre painter .

Life

Annie Cornelia Shaw was born on September 16 in Troy near New York. She spent her youth in Anoka , Minnesota . In Chicago she became a student of Henry Chapman Ford (1828-1894). In 1873 she was elected as a member of the "Chicago Academy of Design" and in 1876 she was the first woman to teach at this academy. She died in Chicago on August 31st. Her paintings Willow Island , Ebbe on the Coast of Maine (1876), Return from the Fair (1878) and Prairie in Illinois became famous .

"Shaw was the darling of Chicago's art community."

- Pamela Hoyle : p. 156.

Works (selection)

  • A Rainy Day ; September Afternoon ; The Deserted Road (1878)
  • Old George ; When the tide goes out (1879)
  • The oak ; The Road to the Creek (1880)
  • A country road ; Early winter ; The Rest (1881)
  • High noon ; Buzzer ; Wheat field (1882)
  • By the Lawsburg Canal , June (1883)
  • Ash Days , Ready to Harvest ; The Russel Year (1885)
  • Hillside ; From Gloucester ; The Hoosac Road (1888)

literature

  • Shaw, Annie . In: Hermann Alexander Müller : Biographical Artist Lexicon. The most famous contemporaries in the field of fine arts of all countries with details of their works . Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig 1882, p. 489. Digitized
  • Union League Club (Ed.): Catalog of the Work of the Women Etchers of America, on Exhibition April 12th to 21st 1888 , New York S. 21, Textarchiv - Internet Archive
  • Shaw, Annie Cornelia . In: James Grant Wilson, John Fiske (Eds.): Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography . tape 5 : Pickering - Sumter . D. Appleton and Company, New York 1888, p. 485 (English, Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  • Pamela Hoyle: The development of photography in Boston, 1840-1875. The catalog of an exhibition held at the Boston Athenaeum, June 27-July 31, 1979 . Boston Athenaeum, Boston 1979, No. 36.
  • Kirsten M. Jensen: The American Salon. The Art Gallery at the Chicago . Dissertation City University of New York, 2007, pp. 352, 353, 368, 381, 406, 425, 452.

Remarks

  1. ↑ Harry L. Katz. Jonathan P. Harding: Pre-twentieth century American and European painting and sculpture with the Thomas Dowse collection of watercolors . The Boston Athenaeum, Boston 1984, ISBN 0-934552-43-6 , p. 56.
  2. ↑ Norman New Mountain: . Henry Chapman Ford Painter of early California . Santa Barbara CA 2007.
  3. ↑ Year of issue in brackets after Pamela Hoyle, unless otherwise noted.
  4. ↑ Year of issue according to Union League Club.
personal data
SURNAME Shaw, Annie Cornelia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American landscape and genre painter
DATE OF BIRTH September 16, 1852
PLACE OF BIRTH Troy
DATE OF DEATH August 31, 1887
Place of death Chicago