biografía de Anna Eliza HARDY (1839-1934)

Lugar de nacimiento: Bangor, ME

Lugar de defunción: South Orrington, ME.

Direcciones: Bangor, ME, and South Orrington, ME

Profesión: Portrait and flower painter, teacher

Estudios: Jeremiah Pearson Hardy (her father, see entry) in Bangor, ME; briefly with Abbott Thayer in Dublin, NH and with Georges Jeannin, Paris

Exposiciones: NAD, 1876-77; Jordon Art Gal., Boston, 1894-96; Boston AC, 1888-1909; S. Indp. A., 1917.

Obra: priv. colls.

Comentarios: She began painting in her father's studio and became known for her fruit and flower studies. Hardy was also a teacher and instructed a number of women artists who also specialized in floral paintings. Several of her still-lifes were chromolithographed by Louis Prang & Co. in the 1870s. Among her students were Charlotte Baldwin, Grace Hemenway, Florence Jennison, Nellie Lincoln, Mary Merrill, Katherine Parker Stewart, and Emma Webb.

Fuentes: G&W; WW15; WW25; Mallett; Records of the Brewer (ME) Public Library; Fielding; Maine Artists"; Cowdrey, NAD. More recently Rubinstein American Women Artists 65; Art by American Women: ...the Collection of L.and A. Sellars, 52; For Beauty and for Truth, 60 (w/repros.); Gerdts, Art Across America, vol. 1: 21-22; Falk, Exh. Record Series.