Elizabeth Nourse

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Elisabeth Nourse self-portrait

Elizabeth Nourse (born October 26, 1859 in Cincinnati , Ohio , † October 8, 1938 in Paris ) was an American painter , sculptor and designer .

biography

Elizabeth and her identical twin sister Adelaide were the youngest of ten children of the Catholic couple, Caleb Elijah Nourse and his wife Elizabeth LeBreton Rogers. At the age of 15, she attended the National Association of Schools of Art and Design in Cincinnati and was one of the first women to study oil and watercolor painting . After completing her studies, she was offered a teaching position at the school in 1881, but Nourse declined. In 1882 she was able to go to New York with the support of an art patron .

After the death of her parents, she returned to Cincinnati in 1883 and worked as a decorator and portrait painter. At the instigation of her older sister, Elizabeth Nourse traveled to Paris in 1887 to take lessons from the famous French painters Gustave Boulanger and Jules-Joseph Lefebvre at the renowned Académie Julian . A year later she opened her own studio and had several exhibitions. In 1920, Elizabeth Nourse developed breast cancer and was successfully operated on. In 1937 doctors diagnosed her with cancer again, from which she died on October 8, 1938 in Paris.

literature

  • Mary Alice Heekin Burke, Elizabeth Nourse: Elizabeth Nourse, 1859-1938. A salon carer . Smithsonian Inst., Washington 1983 (catalog of the exhibition of the same name at the National Museum of American Art, January 14 to April 17, 1983).
  • Julie Aronson, Anita J. Ellis: The Cincinnati Wing. The Story of Art in the Queen City . Ohio University Press, Athens 2003, ISBN 0-8214-1487-9 .
  • James C. Kelly: The South on Paper. Line, Color and Light , University of South Carolina Press 2000.
  • Anna Seaton Schmidt: The paintings of Elizabeth Nourse . In: The Studio, an Illustrated Magazine of Fine and Applied Art . Vol. 36, No. 153 . London 1905, p. 247-254 ( digitized version of Heidelberg University ).

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personal data
SURNAME Nourse, Elizabeth
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American painter, sculptor, and furniture designer
DATE OF BIRTH October 26, 1859
PLACE OF BIRTH Cincinnati , Ohio
DATE OF DEATH October 8, 1938
Place of death Paris