Elenore Abbott

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The Dancing Shoes , 1920

Elenore Abbott (* 1876 as Elenore Henries Plaisted in Lincoln , Maine ; † 1935 ) was an American book illustrator , set designer and painter of landscapes and portraits .

Early years

Elenore Henries Plaisted, daughter of Emma Henries (around 1850-1923) and Thomas Merril Plaisted (1848-1892), both from Maine, was born in 1876 in Penobscot County . Nothing is known about her youth. She studied art at the Philadelphia School of Design for Women and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in the United States, as well as at the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Paris ( France ), where her work has been exhibited. In 1899 she returned to the United States to Philadelphia ( Pennsylvania back). Howard Pyle , her teacher at the Drexel Institute , has been a major influence on her work. She later said that her favorite pieces were created under his guidance.

Professional career

Plaisted, better known for her book illustrations, also worked as a landscape and portrait painter as well as a set designer. In this context, her work at the Hedgerow Theater on the production of The Emperor Jones should be mentioned. She produced illustrations for Harper's Magazine , the Saturday Evening Post, and Charles Scribner's Sons Magazine. She also created book illustrations for the works of Robert Louis Stevenson ( Treasure Island and Kidnapped ), Johann David Wyss ( The Swiss Robinson ), Louisa May Alcott ( A Girl from the Old School ) and Grimm's Fairy Tales .

"Elenore Abbott loves her fairy tales, and no child who receives such a book will be disappointed ... Elenore Abbott is not on the surface a clever artist; her active, vigorous yet idealist's mind is brought into subjection and guides the long sensitive fingers that hold the water color brush.
- Evan Nagel Wolf, 1919 "

She was a member of the Philadelphia Water Color Club and Philadelphia's The Plastic Club , an organization created by women artists to promote art for art's sake . Its members included Jessie Willcox Smith , Violet Oakley and Elizabeth Shippen Green , among others . They all belonged to a New Woman group. In the course of the 19th century the educational opportunities for women increased and the female artists among them became part of one of the first lines of business. In this context, some women in the arts founded their own art associations. Artwork by women was generally considered inferior. To overcome this woman stereotype, women became increasingly louder and more confident in promoting women's labor, which became part of the emerging image of the educated, modern, and free New Woman. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries , about 88% of subscribers to the 11,000 magazines and periodicals were women. When women entered the artistic community, publishers hired women to do illustrations that represented the world through the perspective of women. Other successful illustrators were Jennie Augusta Brownscombe and Rose O'Neill .

Private life

On June 14, 1898, Elenore Abbott married Charles Yarnall Abbott , son of William A. Abbott, in Philadelphia, whom she met at the Drexel Institute. He was a fellow artist and lawyer. After 1911 the family lived in Rose Valley, Pennsylvania. Her husband designed the family home with a studio for Elenore and one for himself. The couple had a daughter named Marjorie "Peggy" Yarnall Abbott (born March 28, 1909), who was named after Elenore's sister. After their sister's death, the Abbotts took their daughters, Sonya and Elenore, to live with them and adopted them. Elenore Plaisted Abbott helped build the Rose Valley Swimming Pool in 1928, which was built on the Abbotts' donated land and funded by the sale of some of Elenore's paintings.

Works (selection)

Illustrations

  • Anna Maynard Barbour: That Mainwaring Affair, illustrated by Eleanore Abbott (1901), Philadelphia, London: JB Lippincott Company, OCLC 10756052
  • Edward Childs Carpenter: Captain Courtesy: A Tale of Southern California, illustrated by Eleanore Abbott (1906), Philadelphia: GW Jacobs
  • Dwight Burroughs: Jack, the Giant Killer, Jr., illustrated by Helen Alden Knipe and Elenore Abbott (1907), George W. Jacobs
  • Edward Childs Carpenter: The Code of Victor Jallot: A Romance of Old New Orleans, illustrated by Eleanore Abbott (1907), Philadelphia: GW Jacobs
  • Elbridge H. Sabin: The Magical Man of Mirth, illustrated by Helen Alden Knipe and Elenore Abbott (1910), George N. Jacobs
  • Nathaniel Hawthorne : A Wonder Book and Tanglewood Tales, illustrated by Eleanore Abbott (1911), Philadelphia: GW Jacobs & Company
  • Jay Cady: The Stake: A Story of the New England Coast, illustrated by Eleanore Abbott (1912), Philadelphia: GW Jacobs & Company, OCLC 11337900
  • Robert Louis Stevenson : Kidnapped, illustrated by Eleanore Abbott (1915), Philadelphia: GW Jacobs & Company, OCLC 333026
  • Daniel Defoe : Robinson Crusoe, illustrated by Eleanore Abbott (1919), London
  • Jacob Grimm : Grimm's Fairy Tales, illustrated by Eleanore Abbott (1920), New York: C. Scribner's Sons
  • Hans Christian Andersen : Flower Maiden and Other Stories, illustrated by Eleanore Abbott (1922), Flower Maiden and Other Stories. Edward Shenton.
  • Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow: The shadowy third, and other stories, illustrated by Eleanore Abbott (1923), Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page and Company
  • Louisa May Alcott : An Old-Fashioned Girl, illustrated by Elenore Abbott (1926), Boston: Little, Brown and Company, OCLC 105983
  • Robert Louis Stevenson: Treasure Island, illustrated by Eleanore Abbott (1911), Philadelphia: GW Jacobs & Company, OCLC 7602448

Watercolors

She created the following watercolors until 1916. The paintings were exhibited at the Philadelphia Water Color Exhibition :

  • Endymion and the Nereids
  • The Fairy Tale
  • Kerfol
  • Lamia
  • madrigal
  • The Mother
  • Oh, to Line in the Grass with Pan!
  • Water

gallery

  • Rose Valley , 1903 or 1904

  • "Now and again I stumbled," for Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island, 1911

  • Cinderella , 1920

  • Six Swans , 1920

  • Soaring Lark , 1920

Collections

  • Brandywine River Museum , Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania:
    • Untitled (mother and child), around 1930, oil painting
    • I Was Despairing When the Bird Returned, around 1914, watercolor on cardboard for the Swiss Family Robinson
    • On a Rude Throne Sat the Mother, around 1914, watercolor on cardboard for the Swiss Family Robinson
    • The Cluster of Grapes Were Ripe and Rich, around 1914, watercolor on cardboard for Robinson Crusoe
    • The Monkey Resumed His Place, around 1914, watercolor on cardboard for the Swiss Family Robinson
    • Louise Porter (portrait), around 1932, oil painting
    • Presently I Found I Was Holding to a Spar, around 1913, watercolor on cardboard for Kidnapped
    • We Retired to Our Airy Castle, around 1914, watercolor on cardboard for the Swiss Family Robinson
  • Delaware Art Museum, Wilimington:
    • I Was Awakened by the Light of a Hand Lantern Shining in My Face, 1911, gouache on paper for Treasure Island
    • Now and Again I Stumbled, 1911, gouache on paper for Treasure Island
    • One Glance Was Sufficient, 1911, watercolor on paper for Treasure Island
    • Tell Me Straight Or I'll Break Your Arm, 1911, watercolor on paper for Treasure Island
    • When I Waked, It Was Broad Daylight, 1911, gouache on paper for Treasure Island
  • Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia:
    • The Dance, 1896–1897, mural

literature

Web links

Commons : Elenore Abbott  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Descendants of Roger Plaisted - Generation 8 (PDF document)
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h The Artists post 1911 - Elenore Plaisted Abbott , The Artists. Rose Valley Museum and Historical Society
  3. ^ Library of Congress: Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 4, Works of Art, Etc, New Series , 1919, p. 270
  4. ^ Jill P. May, Robert E. May, and Howard Pyle: Howard Pyle: Imagining an American School of Art , University of Illinois Press, 2011, ISBN 978-0-252-03626-2 , p. 89
  5. ^ Prieto, Laura R .: At Home in the Studio: The Professionalization of Women Artists in America , Harvard University Press, 2001, ISBN 978-0-674-00486-3 , pp. 145f
  6. ↑ Prieto, Laura R .: At Home in the Studio: The Professionalization of Women Artists in America , Harvard University Press, 2001, ISBN 978-0-674-00486-3 , pp. 160f
  7. ^ A b c Oberholtzer, Ellis Paxson: Philadelphia a history of the city and its people a record of 225 years , Ellis Paxson Oberholtzer, 2007, p. 135
  8. ^ Peggy Abbott Harvey and Daughter Bret , Smithsonian Institution Research Information System
  9. ↑ I Was Despairing When the Bird Returned , Smithsonian Institution Research Information System
  10. ^ On a Rude Throne Sat the Mother , Smithsonian Institution Research Information System
  11. ^ The Cluster of Grapes Were Ripe and Rich , Smithsonian Institution Research Information System
  12. ↑ The Monkey Resumed His Place , Smithsonian Institution Research Information System
  13. ^ Louise Porter , Smithsonian Institution Research Information System
  14. ↑ Presently I Found What I Holding to a saving , Smithsonian Institution Research Information System
  15. ^ We Retired to Our Airy Castle , Smithsonian Institution Research Information System
  16. ^ I Was Awakened by the Light of a Hand Lantern Shining in My Face , Smithsonian Institution Research Information System
  17. ↑ Now and Again I Stumbled , Smithsonian Institution Research Information System
  18. ^ One Glance Was Sufficient , Smithsonian Institution Research Information System
  19. ^ Tell Me Straight Or I'll Break Your Arm , Smithsonian Institution Research Information System
  20. ^ When I Waked, It Was Broad Daylight , Smithsonian Institution Research Information System
  21. ^ The Dance , Smithsonian Institution Research Information System
personal data
SURNAME Abbott, Elenore
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Plaisted, Elenore Henries (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American book illustrator, set designer and painter
DATE OF BIRTH 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH Lincoln , Maine
DATE OF DEATH 1935