Jenny Eakin Delony

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Jenny Eakin Delony (self-portrait)

Jenny Eakin Delony , also known as Jenny Eakin Delony Rice or Jenny Meyrowitz , (born May 13, 1866 in Washington , Arkansas , † April 1, 1949 in Little Rock , Arkansas) was an American painter and teacher . In addition to portraits of respected and historical figures in the United States, she also painted miniatures , landscapes , paintings of wild animals , still lifes, and genre paintings. She founded the Collegiate Art Education in Arkansas.

Private life

Jenny Eakin Delony was born in Washington, Arkansas in 1866 to Elizabeth Pearson Delony and the lawyer Alchyny Turner Delony.

On December 10, 1891, she married Nathaniel J. Rice († 1893) from Denver ( Colorado ). After his death she married her second husband Paul A. Meyrowitz on November 19, 1910 in Chicago ( Illinois ).

She was a member of the United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Daughters of the American Revolution .

education

Delony attended the Wesleyan Female Institution in Staunton ( Virginia ), where she was awarded in music and art a gold medal. From 1886 to 1888 she went to the Cincinnati Art Academy . She then spent two years in Paris , where she studied at the Académie Julian , the Académie Delécluse and in the studio of the painter Paul-Louis Delance .

From 1892 to 1893 she attended the St. Louis School of Art. Before 1895 she studied in Venice with the Italian painter Stefano Novo . Delony enrolled at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris in 1896 , the first year women were admitted there. In the same year she was also one of the first women to study human anatomy at the École de Médecine in Paris. She spent some time with the American painter William Merritt Chase and also worked as his private secretary in Shinnecock - a Chase summer school which was operated in Southampton on Long Island from 1891 to 1902 .

career

Jenny Eakin Delony in her Little Rock studio (April 1891)
Psycle, after Curzon (1889)
Arkansas Made (1896-1900)

Delony was one of the first female Arkansas artists to gain fame in the United States and internationally. She was a member of the American Artists Professional League (AAPL), the National Association of Women Artists (NAWA), and the National Arts Club , both in New York. She was also one of the first female members and one of the first women to exhibit her work at the National Academy of Design . Her work has been exhibited by the Philadelphia, Boston, and New York Miniature Painter Associations, the Woman's Art Club of New York , the National Academy of Design, and the New York Watercolor Club (NYWC).

She had her studio in Little Rock during the 1880s and 1890s. During this time she painted many portraits of respected citizens there. She exhibited her work at various regional and national exhibitions: the World Cotton Centennial Exposition in New Orleans (1884), the State Exposition in Little Rock (1887), the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago (1893) and the Cotton States and International Exposition in Atlanta (1895). She won numerous awards.

Delony taught art in Virginia for three years, first at the Virginia Female Institute in Roanoke (1893-1894) and then at the Norfolk College for Young Ladies in Norfolk (1894-1896). From 1897 to 1899 she was the first Director of Art at Arkansas Industrial University, which became the University of Arkansas (UA) in Fayetteville during her tenure .

She was involved in the women's movement , including for women to vote . In this context, she moved from Fayetteville to New York City in 1900 , where she opened a studio. In 1903 she exhibited her works at the National Academy of Arts. Their miniature of the British Queen Victoria was in Co. Tiffany & issued.

In her role as a suffragette and artist, she was selected to represent American women as an exhibitor at the International Women's Congress in Berlin ( German Reich ), which took place from June 6th to 18th, 1904. In 1905 her portrait of the "richest woman in America" Hetty Green appeared on the full-page front page of The New York Times . The painting is now part of the collection of the Historic Arkansas Museum in Little Rock.

In 1935 she retired from the arts scene in New York City and went back to Little Rock. Delony lived with her sister Daisy in her former parents' house.

After her death in 1949, Delony was buried in the Oakland & Fraternal Historic Cemetery Park in Little Rock.

Works

Many of Delony's works are now part of public collections, including the following portraits:

She also has portraits of Hetty Green, William Sherer, Dr. George Taylor Stewart and Spencer Trask . Her work La Grange College of Alabama now hangs in the Museum of Tennessee Valley Historic Society in Tuscumbia ( Alabama ).

Her works were exhibited in 2007 at the Women Artists in Arkansas Eshibition at the Historic Arkansas Museum, along with the works of the artists Maud Hold , Josephine Graham and Elsie Freund .

literature

  • Former Arkansan Paints Portraits, In: Arkansas Gazette , May 20, 1923, p. 16.
  • Glen B. Opitz (Ed.): Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors, and Engravers, Apollo, Poughkeepsie, NY 1987.
  • Who's Who in America 1948–1949, Volume 25, AN Marquis, Chicago 1949.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ American Art Annual , Volume 12, MacMillan Company, 1916, p. 458
  2. ↑ Who's Who in the Central States: A Biographical Dictionary of Leading Men and Women of the Central States, Volume 1, Larkin, Roosevelt & Larkin, 1947, pp. 105 and 391; Alchyny Turner Delony (1828-1913) , Collections, Smithsonian Institution.
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g h i Who's Who in Illinois . Larkin, Roosevelt & Larkin, Chicago 1947, p. 390.
  4. ^ Marriages: Meyrowitz-Rice, The New York Times from x. December 1891.
  5. ↑ a b Chris Petteys: Dictionary of Women Artists. GK Hill & Co., 1985.
  6. ^ Ronald G. Pisano: A Leading Spirit in American Art: William Merritt Chase, 1849-1916. Henry Art Gallery, Seattle 1983, p. 185.
  7. ^ A b c Women Artists in Arkansas , Historic Arkansas
  8. ^ A b c American Art Annual , Volume 12, MacMillan Company, New York 1916, p. 430.
  9. ↑ a b c d Portrait "An African American Woman", Historic Arkansas.
  10. ↑ a b c d e f Jenny Eakin Delony Rice (1866-1949) , Encyclopedia of Arkansas History and Culture.
  11. ↑ Williams, Josh: Curator's Corner ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.arkansasstateparks.com archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , "Just A Walk In The Park" Newsletter, Arkansas State Parks.
  12. ↑ Jenny Eakin Delony Meyrowitz in the Find a Grave database . Retrieved August 14, 2016.
  13. ^ Delony, Jenny Eakin, 1866-1949, Social Network Archives Content.
personal data
SURNAME Delony, Jenny Eakin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rice, Jenny Eakin Delony (alternative name); Meyrowitz, Jenny (alternative name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American painter and teacher
DATE OF BIRTH May 13, 1866
PLACE OF BIRTH Washington , Arkansas
DATE OF DEATH April 1, 1949
Place of death Little Rock , Arkansas