Emily Sartain
Emily Sartain (born March 17, 1841 in Philadelphia , † June 17, 1927 there ) was an American painter , graphic artist and art teacher .
biography
family
Emily Sartain was the fifth of eight children of the couple John Sartain (1808-1897) and Susannah Longmate Swaine Sartain (1810-1890). She graduated from the Philadelphia High School for Girls in 1858 and worked there as a teacher until the summer of 1862. The father, a mezzotint artist who produced high quality prints of paintings and published them in Philadelphia, taught the daughter his craft. He put a mortgage on his house and paved Emily Sartain's path to becoming a visual artist . In 1862 he accompanied the daughter on an educational trip through Europe. In Venice they met William Dean Howells and his wife, the painter Elinor Mead Howells (1837–1910). The Civil War because the two travelers returned rushed back home. On the way between Edinburgh , Venice and Florence, Emily Sartain had finally decided on an artistic career.
Like Emily Sartain, her brothers Samuel (1830–1906), Henry (1833–1895) and William Sartain (1843–1925) were both painters and graphic artists. Emily Sartain looked after the parents in old age; moved with them to their official residence at the Philadelphia School of Design for Women in 1886 .
Educational path
Emily Sartain first studied painting and graphics with Christian Schussele and her father at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts . Her friendship with the local student Thomas Eakins lasted a lifetime. Emily Sartain met Mary Cassatt in Philadelphia in 1870 . Both went to Europe in 1871 and studied painting in Paris , London , Parma and Turin . In the winter of 1872 both studied printing technology at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Parma under Carlo Raimondi (1809-1883) . Then Sartain studied painting with Évariste Vital Luminais (1821-1896) in Paris until 1875. On the Seine , she shared the studio with Jeanne Rongier (1852–1929). Sometimes her friend Florence Esté (1860–1926) came to visit. In 1875, Emily Sartain returned to Philadelphia for financial reasons.
Act
Beginnings
As a copyist, Emily Sartain reproduced portraits and genre paintings from Spanish and Italian galleries in her Philadelphia studio from 1875 . She sold her products on the east coast . She won a gold medal at the Philadelphia World's Fair in 1876 . In 1881 and 1883, Sartain won the Mary Smith Prize of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts . From 1881 to 1883 she worked as an art editor for Our Continent magazine and in 1883 for Ellen CH Rollins New England Bygones . Joseph Pennell has commended Emily Sartain Sartain's editorial work.
As one of the New Women , Emily Sartain founded the women's organization New Century Club Philadelphia with her sister-in-law Harriet (Hattie) Judd Sartain . Incidentally, Hattie Judd Sartain helped her sister-in-law in the studio and had pre-financed her four-year trip to Europe from 1871 to 1875.
"Philadelphia School of Design for Women"
Emily Sartain led the Philadelphiaer Design erschule for women from 1886 to 1920. Henry Adams praised her work as a pioneering advocate of advanced education for women ( "a Trailblazer in the sector Higher education of women"). Emily Sartain offered her female students - unusual for the turn of the 20th century - courses in life drawing with female and male models. The school's teaching program included the training of art teachers . Emily Sartain brought artists such as the painter Robert Henri , the sculptor Samuel Murray (1869–1941) and the expressionist landscape painter Daniel Garber (1880–1958) to her school as lecturers .
By 1890, Emily Sartain had established herself as a national authority on arts education for women in the United States. In 1893 she was one of the advisors at the Chicago World's Fair . Together with the painter Alice Barber Stephens (1858–1932), a lecturer at her school, she founded the Plastic Club in Philadelphia in 1897 - an art club that was also open to men. Founding members were, for example, Elenore Abbott , Cecilia Beaux , Elizabeth Shippen Green , Violet Oakley and Jessie Willcox Smith . Emily Sartain founded the Three Arts Club of Chicago (the three arts of music , painting and drama ). In 1899 she appeared in London as a speaker at the International Congress of Women . In 1900 and 1904 she was one of the US delegates to the International Congress for Art Education in Paris and Bern .
Her contribution, Value of Training in Design for Woman ("The Value of Training in Design for Women") was published in 1913 in the New York Times . Nina de Angeli Walls said that professional certification for women in such art schools in the subjects of art training, fabric design or magazine illustrations paved the way for women to become economically independent.
After 1920, Emily Sartain lived in San Diego . She died while visiting her birthplace.
Web links
- Pictures in the PAFA
- Entry in encyclopedia.com (English)
- Pictures in the americangallery
- Entry in WorldCat (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Susanna Swaine at myheritage.de
- ↑ New England Bygones in the Internet Archive (English)
- ↑ Nina de Angeli Walls at cambridge.org (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sartain, Emily |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American painter, graphic artist and art teacher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 17, 1841 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Philadelphia |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 17, 1927 |
| Place of death | Philadelphia |