Anna Richards Brewster
Anna Richards Brewster | |
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| Born | Mary Ann Richards 1870 Germantown, Philadelphia |
| Died | 1952 |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | Cowles Art Academy |
| Spouse | William Tenney Brewster |
Anna Richards Brewster (1870–1952) was an American painter.
Biography
She was born in Germantown neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Her parents were the poet and playwright Anna Matlack and the landscape painter William Trost Richards. She studied at Cowles Art school, and with William Merritt Chase.
Brewster illustrated several publications in collaboration with her mother Anna Matlack throughout the 1890s, including A New Alice in the Old Wonderland in 1895, 'Letter and spirit, dramatic sonnets of inward life, published 1898, and a translation of a German folktale, Sintram and His Companions, published in 1900.
In 1905, she married the literature professor William Tenney Brewster, who thereafter encouraged her to paint, although she stopped showing her work after the death of their son in 1910. She is known for sculptures and illustrations as well as paintings.[1][2]
Like many American artists at the turn of the 20th century, Brewster made paintings of scenes from her travels; the Huntsville Museum of Art has one of fishermen in Volendam.[1] After her death in 1952, her husband gave much of her work to public and private institutions.[3]
References
- ^ a b "Anna Richards Brewster". Netherlands Institute for Art History (RKD).
- ^ Heller, Jules; Heller, Nancy G. (2013-12-19). North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century: A Biographical Dictionary. Routledge. ISBN 9781135638825.
- ^ Brewster, Anna Richards; Maxwell, Judith Kafka; Hudson River Museum; Butler Institute of American Art; Fresno Metropolitan Museum of Art, History, and Science (2008-01-01). Anna Richards Brewster, American impressionist. Berkeley: University of California Press.
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Publications
- A New Alice in the Old Wonderland, published in 1895
- Letter and spirit, dramatic sonnets of inward life, published in 1898
- Sintram and His Companions, translation published in 1900
Sources
- Judith Kafka Maxwell (ed) Anna Richards Brewster, American Impressionist, University of California Press, 2008, ISBN 9780520257498
External links
- 2 artworks by or after Anna Richards Brewster at the Art UK site
- Anna Richards Brewster on Artnet
- Anna Richards Brewster website (arbrewster.com) – status unknown, perhaps the official website of the traveling exhibition Anna Richards Brewster, American Impressionist
- Anna Mary Richards Brewster artworks at The Athenaeum Museum (the-athenaeum.org)
- Anna Richards Brewster at Library of Congress, with 4 library catalog records
- A New Alice in the Old Wonderland, published 1895, at the Internet Archive
- Letter and spirit, dramatic sonnets of inward life, published 1898, at HathiTrust Digital Library
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