Abbott - Curtis
Abbott, Eleonor Plaisted
Born in Lincoln, Maine in 1875, Elenore Plaisted Abbott was a painter, illustrator, and scenic designer. After studying at the Philadelphia School of Design for Women and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, she traveled to Paris and enrolled at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. Although she moved back to Philadelphia to continue her studies with Howard Pyle around 1899, she still exhibited at the 1902 annual AWAA show at 4 rue de Chevreuse. Abbott designed the exhibition poster and showed a painting, “The Broken Toy.” A member of the Plastic Club and the Philadelphia Water Color Club, Abbott was among the professional women artists at the turn of the 20th century who believed in art for art’s sake. Her career as an illustrator was particularly successful. In addition to producing illustrations for Harper’s, Scribner’s, and the Saturday Evening Post, she also illustrated early editions of canonical books like Kidnapped, Grimm’s Fairy Tales, and Robinson Crusoe. She was married to lawyer C. Yarnall Abbott and had one daughter. Abbott died in 1935.
Abbott, Katherine Gilbert
Born in Zanesville, Ohio, Katherine Gilbert Abbott (1867-1936) studied in New York with H. Siddons Mowbray and William Merritt Chase of New York before continuing her training in Paris with Merson and Delance. Known primarily for her portraits, Abbott was among a select group of women artists invited to represent the United States at the 1900 Exposition Universelle held at the Grand Palais. Her Salon debut had been at the 1894 Salon des artistes francais, when she showed one painting. At the 1895 Salon des artistes francais, when her residence was listed as 4 rue de Chevreuse, Abbott exhibited two paintings, including a portrait of Alice Yandell, sister of sculptor Enid Yandell, with whom Abbott shared a studio at this time. Her last Salon appearance came in 1901, when she showed a painting at that year’s Salon des Beaux Arts. She married Allen Howard Cox, a prominent Boston architect in 1904, and they remained in Boston for the rest of their lives while her husband designed a number of now-historic buildings.
Addams, Inez Eleanor Bate
Inez Eleanor Bate Addams (dates unknown) was an American painter. She exhibited her work at the 1897 and 1898 Salons des Beaux Arts. Her artistic education had begun in Belgium and by 1899 she was working as an apprentice for Whistler in Paris. Bate had been one of the first students at Whistler’s short-lived Académie Carmen (1899-1901), and she even became Massière of the Académie. Enid Yandell, a noted American sculptor studying in Paris at this time, executed a portrait bust of a “Miss Baker,” Whistler’s massière—this is most likely Inez Bate. She met her future husband, Clifford Addams, through Whistler, and the two were married in June 1900. Later that year, Inez Addams taught her own life class for women at the Académie. In addition to her Salon appearances, Inez also exhibited her work at the 1902 AWAA show and for many years in Glasgow and the U.K. In 1915, she won a medal at the Panama-Pacific Exposition, San Francisco. She and Clifford had four children together though they separated in the 1920s and were granted a divorce in Reno, Nevada in 1932.
Aitchison, W. L.
Supposedly an exhibitor at the annual AWAA exhibition in February 1914. No further details on who she was or what she showed at the exhibition have surfaced.
Allen, Jessie
Born in Albany, New York in 1868, Jessie Allen moved to San Francisco with her brother in 1886 after the death of their parents. She first studied at the Mark Hopkins Institute of Art (1888-1890) and was a member of the Art Students’ League and the Sketch Club (1894). Allen traveled to Paris in September 1895 in the company of a certain Miss Woodward (possibly artist Anna Woodward), where she lived until her untimely death in 1899 at the age of 28. Allen had begun to achieve success as an artist, exhibiting paintings of Venice at the 1897 AWAA show at 4 rue de Chevreuse as well as a painting and miniature at the 1899 Salon des artistes francais, just a few months before her life was tragically cut short.
Amiard, Henriette
Henriette Amiard Oberteuffer (1878-1962) was born in Le Havre, France and studied in Paris at the Académie Julian. She exhibited a number of times at the Salon des artistes francais from 1900-1910. Amiard married fellow artist, American George Oberteuffer, and the couple moved to the United States after World War I. In 1913, Mrs. Oberteuffer was listed among the exhibitors of watercolors, etchings, and woodcuts at the AWAA show. She became an art teacher in the United States but did not seem to work professionally as an artist, particularly after her husband's death in 1940.
Anderson, Ellen Graham
A native of Lexington, Virginia, painter, illustrator, and caricaturist Ellen Graham Anderson (1885-1970) was another American artist who studied in Paris just before WWI. Along with her friend and Girls' Club artist Anne Goldthwaite, Anderson was among the students who trained with Charles Guérin at the so-called Académie Moderne, located in a studio that had once belonged to Whistler. Anderson also studied with E.A. Taylor during her time abroad from 1913-1914 and lived on the rue Notre-Dame-des-Champs. In her letters to her mother, she described taking tea at the Girls' Art Club. She also spent time with her relative, Cubist painter Patrick Henry Bruce, who married yet another Girls' Club artist, Helen Kibbey, while in Paris. Anderson hailed from a prominent Virginia family and was proud of her Southern heritage, even as she embraced radical modern and Impressionist styles of art. Before going to Europe, Anderson had studied at the Art Students League in New York, and she returned to New York when war drove her home, remaining there until the mid-1920s. As an illustrator in New York, Anderson executed fashionable pen-and-ink drawings, many of which were published in The New York Tribune, The New York Times Book Review and Magazine, and The International. Her archival papers, like those of her family, can be accessed at the University of Virginia.
Andreasen, Ingeborg
Danish artist Ingeborg Andreasen-Lindborg, also known as Elna Ingeborg Andreasen, was a painter and printmaker born in 1875. She studied in Chicago at the Art Institute around 1896-1897 and also in Copenhagen at the Academy of Fine Arts around 1900-1907. During several study trips throughout Europe, Andreasen spent time in Paris, exhibiting at the 1907 AWAA show. She was among the exhibitors praised in a NYH review of the show for her 5 sketches, including some of babies’ heads. She also exhibited some jewelry and a painting, “Spring Morning.” Andreasen spent most of her career in Stockholm, where she trained under Axel Tallberg in etching. Her paintings and etchings focused mostly on landscapes, still life, and depictions of animals, though she began producing miniature portraits on ivory around 1918. She died in 1950.
Arrington, Mary-Louise
Painter and miniaturist Mary-Louise Arrington (dates unknown) lived at 4 rue de Chevreuse from at least 1896-1902. She was listed as a Club resident in the 1896 Indicateur guide to artists in Paris and that was still her address in 1898 when she exhibited a painting and a portrait miniature at that year's Salon des artistes francais. The 1898 Salon catalogue identifies her as a student of Raphael Collin. She also exhibited a Dutch interior at the 1897 AWAA exhibition at the Girls' Art Club.
Austin, Amanda
Missouri native Amanda P. Austin (1859-1917) was a sculptor who studied at the University of Missouri. Her artistic education was funded by a wealthy uncle who enabled her to study first in California and then for several years in Paris at the Académies Delécluse and Colarossi. While in Paris, Austin exhibited a sculpture at the 1909 Salon de la Société nationale des Beaux-Arts and a painting at the 1911 Salon des Artistes francais. Her work was also shown at the 1910 AWAA exhibition at 4 rue de Chevreuse. She died of cancer in 1917.
Bachman, Louise
A painter originally from Cincinnati, Ohio, Louise Bachman specialized in landscapes and figure painting. Though she spent most of her life in Indiana, Bachman did study at the Art Students League in New York with Frank Du Mond as well as in Paris at the Académies Vitti and Colarossi. She was listed as an exhibitor at an 1896 sketch show hosted at the Girls’ Art Club by the AWAA. Bachman exhibited “river scenes and drawings of heads.” In 1897, she exhibited a painting, “Nocturne,” at the Salon des artistes français. Like her fellow American artists studying in Europe in the late-19th century, Bachman spent summers outside of Paris, observing and painting working people in France and in Holland. Around 1898, Bachman married Dr. C.T. Zaring. They moved to Florida in the 1920s, where Louise cofounded and taught at the Miami Art Association. She died in 1970 in Broward, Florida.