biografía de Gabrielle DeVaux CLEMENTS (1858-1948)

Lugar de nacimiento: Philadelphia, PA

Lugar de defunción: Folly Cove (near Rockport,) MA

Direcciones: Phila.; Baltimore; Wash., DC, 1910-34; Gloucester and Rockport, MA

Profesión: Painter, etcher, decorator, mural painter, teacher

Estudios: etching with Stephen Parrish in Philadelphia; Cornell Univ., 1880; Académie Julian, Paris, with T. Robert-Fleury and Bouguereau.

Exposiciones: PAFA, 1882-1905 (prize, 1883), 1927; Boston AC, 1884, 1886, 1894, 1895; NAD, 1884-95; Paris Salon, 1885; Ohio Valley Centennial, 1888; Union League Club, NYC, 1888; Woman Etchers of America," NYC, 1888; World's Columbian Expo, Chicago, 1893; Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis, 1904; Wash. WCC, 1911-27; Corcoran Biennials, 1921-26; Sesquicentennial International Exposition, Phila., 1926;PAFA, 1927; J.B. Speed Mus.(color etchings) 1935; AIC; Soc. Washington Artists; Chicago Soc. Etchers; Soc. Am. Etchers; Baltimore Charcoal Club; National Art Club, U.S.National Mus. (now National Mus. Am. Hist.); Smithsonian Institution, LOC; Goodspeed's in Boston; Soc. Independent Artists; Rockport AA; Folly Cove Etchers; North Shore AA."

Asociaciones: Fellow, PAFA; Chicago SE; North Shore AA; Charleston EC; Soc. Wash. Artists; Wash. WCC.

Obra: St. Patrick's Church, Wash., DC; St. Paul's Chapel, Baltimore; St. Matthews Church, Sparrow Point, MD; Trinity Church, Townson, MD; St. Joseph's Church, Detroit; Speed Mem. Mus., Louisville, KY; LOC; NMAA; NMAH.

Comentarios: One of the earliest American women to master etching, her notebooks contain details on the medium, including color etchings (1918 treatise), and softground etchings. She was the lifelong companion of Ellen Day Hale with whom she painted and etched, but she was perhaps best known for her murals for churches.

Fuentes: WW40; her diaries and papers in the Archives of Am. Art include 15 Years of the Drawing Dept., Bryn Mawr School, 1931" and other notes. McMahan, Artists of Washington, D.C.; Petteys, Dictionary of Women Artists; P. Peet, Am. Women of the Etching Revival, 53; Fink, American Art at the Nineteenth-Century Paris Salons, 330; Falk, Exh. Record Series.