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{{Short description|American painter}}
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'''Clara Taggart MacChesney''' (sometimes '''McChesney''') (1860/61-1928) was an American painter and writer known for her figurative painting, landscapes and “scenes and people of Holland.”<ref name="Petteys">Petteys, Chris, ''Dictionary of Women Artists: An international dictionary of women artists born before 1900'', G.K. Hall & Co., Boston, 1985.</ref>{{rp|458}}
'''Clara Taggart MacChesney''' (sometimes '''McChesney''') (1860/61-1928) was an American painter and writer known for her figurative painting, landscapes and “scenes and people of Holland.”<ref name="Petteys">Petteys, Chris, ''Dictionary of Women Artists: An international dictionary of women artists born before 1900'', G.K. Hall & Co., Boston, 1985.</ref>{{rp|458}}


==Early years==
==Early years==
Born in [[Brownsville, California]], her family moved to [[Oakland, California|Oakland]] when she was young where her father, Joseph B. McChesney, was principal of [[Oakland High School (Oakland, California)|Oakland High School]].<ref name="askart">{{cite web|url=http://www.askart.com/artist/Clara_J_MacChesney/23841/Clara_J_MacChesney.aspx|title=Clara McChesney - Artist, Fine Art Prices, Auction Records for Clara McChesney|website=www.askart.com|accessdate=7 August 2018}}</ref>
Born in Brownsville, California, her family moved to [[Oakland, California|Oakland]] when she was young where her father, Joseph B. McChesney, was principal of [[Oakland High School (Oakland, California)|Oakland High School]].<ref name="askart">{{cite web|url=http://www.askart.com/artist/Clara_J_MacChesney/23841/Clara_J_MacChesney.aspx|title=Clara McChesney - Artist, Fine Art Prices, Auction Records for Clara McChesney|website=www.askart.com|accessdate=7 August 2018}}</ref>


MacChesney began her art studies in San Francisco with Virgil Williams at the [[San Francisco Art Institute|California School of Design]], before moving to [[New York City]] to continue her studies with [[Harry Siddons Mowbray|H. S. Mowbray]] and [[James Carroll Beckwith|J. C. Beckwith]].<ref>Opitz, Glenn B, editor, ''Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers'', Apollo Book, Poughkeepsie NY, 1986, p. 565</ref> This was followed by a move to [[Paris, France|Paris]], where she enrolled in the [[Académie Colarossi]] and studied with [[Gustave-Claude-Etienne Courtois|Courtois]].
MacChesney began her art studies in San Francisco with Virgil Williams at the [[San Francisco Art Institute|California School of Design]], before moving to [[New York City]] to continue her studies with [[Harry Siddons Mowbray|H. S. Mowbray]] and [[James Carroll Beckwith|J. C. Beckwith]].<ref>Opitz, Glenn B, editor, ''Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers'', Apollo Book, Poughkeepsie NY, 1986, p. 565</ref> This was followed by a move to [[Paris, France|Paris]], where she enrolled in the [[Académie Colarossi]] and studied with [[Gustave-Claude-Etienne Courtois|Courtois]].<ref name="Artists in California">{{cite book |last1=Hughes |first1=Dean Milton |title=Artists in California, 1786-1940 |year=1986 |url=https://archive.org/details/artistsincalifor0000hugh |url-access=registration |publisher=Hughes Pub. Co |isbn=0961611200 |page=[https://archive.org/details/artistsincalifor0000hugh/page/302 302] |edition=1st}}</ref>


MacChesney [[List of American painters exhibited at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition|exhibited watercolors]] at the 1893 [[World's Columbian Exposition]] in Chicago, and was awarded a medal for her work. An article in ''[[The San Francisco Call]]'' announced that she had placed two paintings in the [[Exposition Universelle (1900)|1900 World’s Exposition]] in Paris, and remarked that: "Both American and foreign artists have referred to Miss McChesney as 'America's foremost woman painter.' "<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=SFC18991223.2.112.16|title=San Francisco Call 23 December 1899 — California Digital Newspaper Collection|website=cdnc.ucr.edu|accessdate=7 August 2018}}</ref> She would later exhibit at the [[Louisiana Purchase Exposition|1904 St. Louis World’s Fair]], again winning a medal.<ref> ''Art in California: A survey of American art with special reference to californian painting, sculpture and architecture, past and present, particularly those as those arts were represented at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition'', essays by Bruce Porter, Mabel Urmy Seares, , Alma May Cook, A Sterling Calder, Louis Christian Mullgardt and others, originally published by R.L. Briener, Publishers, San Francisco, Reprinted Westphal Publishing, Irving, California, 1988, p. 171</ref>
MacChesney [[List of American painters exhibited at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition|exhibited watercolors]] at the 1893 [[World's Columbian Exposition]] in Chicago, and was awarded a medal for her work. An article in ''[[The San Francisco Call]]'' announced that she had placed two paintings in the [[Exposition Universelle (1900)|1900 World's Exposition]] in Paris, and remarked that: "Both American and foreign artists have referred to Miss McChesney as 'America's foremost woman painter.' "<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=SFC18991223.2.112.16|title=San Francisco Call 23 December 1899 — California Digital Newspaper Collection|website=cdnc.ucr.edu|accessdate=7 August 2018}}</ref> She would later exhibit at the [[Louisiana Purchase Exposition|1904 St. Louis World's Fair]], winning a bronze medal.<ref>''Art in California: A survey of American art with special reference to californian painting, sculpture and architecture, past and present, particularly those as those arts were represented at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition'', essays by Bruce Porter, Mabel Urmy Seares, , Alma May Cook, A Sterling Calder, Louis Christian Mullgardt and others, originally published by R.L. Briener, Publishers, San Francisco, Reprinted Westphal Publishing, Irving, California, 1988, p. 171</ref>


She also wrote and published pieces for New York art publications, “frequently on her lifelong friend [[Elizabeth Nourse]].”<ref name="Petteys"/>{{rp|458}}
She also wrote and published pieces for New York art publications, “frequently on her lifelong friend [[Elizabeth Nourse]].”<ref name="Petteys"/>{{rp|458}}


MacChesney lived in [[Carmel-by-the-Sea, California]] in the 1920s. She wrote about Carmel-by-the-Sea and its pageant and drama in the ''New-York Tribune.''<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/111432278/carmel-by-the-sea/|title=Carmel-By-The-Sea and its Pageant-Drama|author=Clara T. MacChesney|work=New-York Tribune|place=New York, New York|date=15 Aug 1915|page=25|access-date=2022-10-16}}</ref>

{{blockquote|Paints on canvas; paints in words. Portraits her specialty and has turned the trick of feature work on both New York Times and Tribune. Twenty-two times across the ocean and maintains a studio in Carmel.|[[George Sterling]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://archive.org/details/ccarm_001733/page/n5/mode/2up?q=%22Sterling%22|title=Poems of Carmel|author=George Sterling|work=Carmel Pine Cone|place=Carmel-by-the-Sea, California|date=1928-12-14|page=8|access-date=2022-10-14}}</ref>}}

==Death==
She died in [[London, England|London]] on August 6, 1928.<ref name="askart"/>
She died in [[London, England|London]] on August 6, 1928.<ref name="askart"/>

==Gallery==
<gallery widths="200px" heights="250px">
File:Clara Taggart MacChesney-A Good Story (Portrait of Robert Loftin Newman) 1900.jpg|A Good Story (Portrait of [[Robert Loftin Newman]]), 1900
File:Clara Taggart MacChesney-The Last Letter 1917.jpg|The Last Letter, 1917
File:Clara Taggart MacChesney-portrait of Moncure Daniel Conway.jpg|portrait of [[Moncure Daniel Conway]]
File:Clara Taggart MacChesney-White House, Evening.jpg|White House, Evening
File:Clara Taggart MacChesney - Girl Reading by a Window.jpg|Girl Reading by a Window
</gallery>


==Works==
==Works==
* ''A Good Story (Portrait of Robert Loftin Newman)'', (1900) [[Smithsonian American Art Museum]], [[Washington, District of Columbia]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://americanart.si.edu/artist/clara-taggart-macchesney-3038|title=Clara Taggart MacChesney|website=Smithsonian American Art Museum|accessdate=7 August 2018}}</ref>
* ''A Good Story (Portrait of Robert Loftin Newman)'', (1900) [[Smithsonian American Art Museum]], Washington, D.C.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://americanart.si.edu/artist/clara-taggart-macchesney-3038|title=Clara Taggart MacChesney|website=Smithsonian American Art Museum|accessdate=7 August 2018}}</ref>
* ''Still Life with Plate and Kettle'', [[National Arts Club]], Manhattan, New York City<ref>[https://siris-artinventories.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?session=1533F39571G6G.96&profile=ariall&source=~!siartinventories&view=subscriptionsummary&uri=full=3100001~!350154~!1&ri=5&aspect=Keyword&menu=search&ipp=20&spp=20&staffonly=&term=Clara+Taggart&index=.AW&uindex=&aspect=Keyword&menu=search&ri=5 Still Life with Plate and Kettle,] from SIRIS.</ref>
* ''Still Life with Plate and Kettle'', [[National Arts Club]], Manhattan, New York City<ref>[https://siris-artinventories.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?session=1533F39571G6G.96&profile=ariall&source=~!siartinventories&view=subscriptionsummary&uri=full=3100001~!350154~!1&ri=5&aspect=Keyword&menu=search&ipp=20&spp=20&staffonly=&term=Clara+Taggart&index=.AW&uindex=&aspect=Keyword&menu=search&ri=5 Still Life with Plate and Kettle], from SIRIS.</ref>
* ''Portrait of Governor George C. Pardee'' (1911), [[California State Capitol]], Sacramento<ref>[https://siris-artinventories.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?session=1533F39571G6G.96&profile=ariall&source=~!siartinventories&view=subscriptionsummary&uri=full=3100001~!138401~!5&ri=1&aspect=Keyword&menu=search&ipp=20&spp=20&staffonly=&term=Clara+Taggart&index=.AW&uindex=&aspect=Keyword&menu=search&ri=1 George C. Pardee,] from SIRIS/</ref>
*''Hay Barges, San Francisco'', [[Oakland Museum]], Oakland, California<ref>[https://siris-artinventories.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?session=1533F39571G6G.96&profile=ariall&source=~!siartinventories&view=subscriptionsummary&uri=full=3100001~!144666~!9&ri=8&aspect=Keyword&menu=search&ipp=20&spp=20&staffonly=&term=Clara+Taggart&index=.AW&uindex=&aspect=Keyword&menu=search&ri=8 Hay Barges, San Francisco], from SIRIS.</ref>
* ''Portrait of Governor George C. Pardee'' (1911), [[California State Capitol]], Sacramento<ref>[https://siris-artinventories.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?session=1533F39571G6G.96&profile=ariall&source=~!siartinventories&view=subscriptionsummary&uri=full=3100001~!138401~!5&ri=1&aspect=Keyword&menu=search&ipp=20&spp=20&staffonly=&term=Clara+Taggart&index=.AW&uindex=&aspect=Keyword&menu=search&ri=1 George C. Pardee], from SIRIS.</ref>

==References==
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Latest revision as of 19:16, 16 December 2023

Clara Taggart MacChesney
Clara Taggart MacChesney 1899
Born1860 (1860)
Brownsville, California
DiedAugust 6, 1928(1928-08-06) (aged 67–68)
London, England
NationalityAmerican
Known forPainting

Clara Taggart MacChesney (sometimes McChesney) (1860/61-1928) was an American painter and writer known for her figurative painting, landscapes and “scenes and people of Holland.”[1]: 458 

Early years[edit]

Born in Brownsville, California, her family moved to Oakland when she was young where her father, Joseph B. McChesney, was principal of Oakland High School.[2]

MacChesney began her art studies in San Francisco with Virgil Williams at the California School of Design, before moving to New York City to continue her studies with H. S. Mowbray and J. C. Beckwith.[3] This was followed by a move to Paris, where she enrolled in the Académie Colarossi and studied with Courtois.[4]

MacChesney exhibited watercolors at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, and was awarded a medal for her work. An article in The San Francisco Call announced that she had placed two paintings in the 1900 World's Exposition in Paris, and remarked that: "Both American and foreign artists have referred to Miss McChesney as 'America's foremost woman painter.' "[5] She would later exhibit at the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair, winning a bronze medal.[6]

She also wrote and published pieces for New York art publications, “frequently on her lifelong friend Elizabeth Nourse.”[1]: 458 

MacChesney lived in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California in the 1920s. She wrote about Carmel-by-the-Sea and its pageant and drama in the New-York Tribune.[7]

Paints on canvas; paints in words. Portraits her specialty and has turned the trick of feature work on both New York Times and Tribune. Twenty-two times across the ocean and maintains a studio in Carmel.

— George Sterling[8]

Death[edit]

She died in London on August 6, 1928.[2]

Gallery[edit]

Works[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b Petteys, Chris, Dictionary of Women Artists: An international dictionary of women artists born before 1900, G.K. Hall & Co., Boston, 1985.
  2. ^ a b "Clara McChesney - Artist, Fine Art Prices, Auction Records for Clara McChesney". www.askart.com. Retrieved 7 August 2018.
  3. ^ Opitz, Glenn B, editor, Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers, Apollo Book, Poughkeepsie NY, 1986, p. 565
  4. ^ Hughes, Dean Milton (1986). Artists in California, 1786-1940 (1st ed.). Hughes Pub. Co. p. 302. ISBN 0961611200.
  5. ^ "San Francisco Call 23 December 1899 — California Digital Newspaper Collection". cdnc.ucr.edu. Retrieved 7 August 2018.
  6. ^ Art in California: A survey of American art with special reference to californian painting, sculpture and architecture, past and present, particularly those as those arts were represented at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, essays by Bruce Porter, Mabel Urmy Seares, , Alma May Cook, A Sterling Calder, Louis Christian Mullgardt and others, originally published by R.L. Briener, Publishers, San Francisco, Reprinted Westphal Publishing, Irving, California, 1988, p. 171
  7. ^ Clara T. MacChesney (15 Aug 1915). "Carmel-By-The-Sea and its Pageant-Drama". New-York Tribune. New York, New York. p. 25. Retrieved 2022-10-16.
  8. ^ George Sterling (1928-12-14). "Poems of Carmel". Carmel Pine Cone. Carmel-by-the-Sea, California. p. 8. Retrieved 2022-10-14.
  9. ^ "Clara Taggart MacChesney". Smithsonian American Art Museum. Retrieved 7 August 2018.
  10. ^ Still Life with Plate and Kettle, from SIRIS.
  11. ^ Hay Barges, San Francisco, from SIRIS.
  12. ^ George C. Pardee, from SIRIS.

External links[edit]

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