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Clara Taggart MacChesney (1860/61-1928) was an American painter and writer known for her figurative painting, landscapes and “scenes and people of Holland.” [1]
Early years
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 where she studied with Courtois.
An article in The San Francisco Call, while announcing that she placed two paintings in the 1900 World’s Exposition in Paris remarked that “Both American and foreign artists have referred to Miss McChesney as "America's foremost woman painter." [4] MacChesney had previously exhibited paintings at the 1983 World's Columbian Exposition and would later show at the St. Louis World’s Fair in 1904, winning medals in both.[5]
She also wrote and published pieces for New York art publications, “frequently on her lifelong friend Elizabeth Nourse.”[6]
She died in London on August 6, 1928.[7]
Works
- A Good Story (Portrait of Robert Loftin Newman), (1900) Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, District of Columbia[8]
- Still Life with Plate and Kettle, National Arts Club, New York, New York
References
- ^ Petteys, Chris, “Dictionary of Women Artists: An international dictionary of women artists born before 1900”, G.K. Hall & Co., Boston, 1985 p. 458
- ^ http://www.askart.com/artist/Clara_J_MacChesney/23841/Clara_J_MacChesney.aspx
- ^ Opitz, Glenn B, Editor, Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers, Apollo Book, Poughkeepsie NY, 1986, p. 565
- ^ https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=SFC18991223.2.112.16
- ^ 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
- ^ Petteys, Chris, “Dictionary of Women Artists: An international dictionary of women artists born before 1900”, G.K. Hall & Co., Boston, 1985 p.458
- ^ http://www.askart.com/artist/Clara_J_MacChesney/23841/Clara_J_MacChesney.aspx
- ^ https://americanart.si.edu/artist/clara-taggart-macchesney-3038
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- 1860 births
- 1861 births
- 1928 deaths
- 19th-century American painters
- 20th-century American painters
- American women painters
- 19th-century American women artists
- 20th-century American women artists
- Académie Colarossi alumni
- Artists from Oakland, California
- Painters from California
- San Francisco Art Institute alumni