Rosina Emmet Sherwood
Rosina Emmet Sherwood (born Rosina Emmet December 13, 1854 in New York City ; died January 19, 1948 in New York City) was an American painter.
Life
Rosina Emmet was born into a large family, her mother Julia Pierson painted Emmet, one brother was the engineer William Le Roy Emmet (1859–1941), and among the sisters were the portrait painters Lydia Field Emmet (1866–1952) and Jane de Glehn ( 1873-1961).
Emmet studied with William Merritt Chase , among others . She was friends with Dora Wheeler Keith , with whom she studied at the Académie Julian in Paris from 1884 to 1885 . For a while they shared a studio in New York and created designs for carpets, curtain fabrics and wallpaper.
Rosina Emmet married Arthur Sherwood in 1887 and they had five children, including the Pulitzer Prize- winner Robert E. Sherwood, who was born in 1896 . She painted all her life, also to secure a family livelihood.
literature
- Henriette Stuchtey: Sherwood, Rosina . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 103, de Gruyter, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-11-023269-1 , p. 315.
- Rosina Emmet Sherwood , in A Woman of the Century, 1893
- The Emmets: a family of women painters . The Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, Massachusetts, August 6-September 26, 1982: The Danforth Museum, Framingham, Massachusetts, October 10-December 5, 1982. Pittsfield, Mass. : The Museum, 1982
Web links
- Literature by and about Rosina Emmet Sherwood in the WorldCat bibliographic database
- Rosina Emmet Sherwood , at the Smithsonian American Art Museum
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sherwood, Rosina Emmet |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Emmet, Rosina (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 13, 1854 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | New York City |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 19, 1948 |
| Place of death | New York City |