Alice Barber Stephens nasceu em Salem New Jersey
Alice Barber Stephens nasceu em Salem, New Jersey, em 1º de julho de 1858. Foi uma pintora, ilustradora e gravadora americana. Sua família mudou-se para Filadélfia, Pensilvânia, e aos 15 anos ela ingressou na “Philadelphia School of Design for Women”. Em 1876, estudou na “Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts”, com Thomas Eakins. Alice deixou a Academia em 1880 e começou a trabalhar como entalhadora de madeira. Em 1885 voltou-se para o desenho com tinta e passou a fazer ilustração. Financeiramente autossuficiente, ela foi então capaz de estudar em Paris, na “Académie Julian” e na “Académie Colarossi”. Exibiu seu trabalho no “Salon” de Paris de 1887. Em 1890, casou-se com Charles H. Stephens e tiveram um filho. Em seu retorno aos Estados Unidos, passou a incluir carvão, óleo e aquarela no seu trabalho. Ela também recebeu inúmeras encomendas de ilustração de livros de autores como Bret Harte e Arthur Conan Doyle, e para as edições especiais da obra de Henry Wadsworth Longfellow e Nathaniel Hawthorne. Em 1897, Alice foi uma das fundadoras do “Plastic Club”, uma associação de mulheres na Filadélfia. O grupo foi uma resposta ao fato de que mulheres artistas foram impedidas de ingressar em clubes de artistas do sexo masculino, exceto ocasionalmente como membros associados, situação que permaneceu inalterada até 1920, quando a “Society of Illustrators”, de Nova York, admitiu mulheres como membros plenos. Ruth’s Hands Alice morreu em 13 de julho de 1932. Seus trabalhos estão no “Archives of American Art” na “Smithsonian Institution”.
The Women’s Life Class, 1879
Woman on White Horse Reviewing Troops Boy in Windowseat Daydreaming
Shopping for Miniatures at Bailey, Banks and Biddle in Philadelphia, 1895 Woman Giving Little Boy Piano Lesson
Christmas on Fifth Avenue
The Nursery The Bear Hunter, 1896
Over-Indulgence - A Spoiled Thanksgiving Untitled
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All My Friends The Women in Business, 1897
Untitled One That Didn’t Make It
The Germania Orchestra at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
John Wesley Teaching His Sunday School, 1897 Fast Asleep
The Convention Untitled
Girl with Bicycle Pauses at Gate
In the Open Air A Formal Gathering
Untitled You Said now I Lay Me in Unison
Mother of Angelo Ames Interior Scene What George Asked the Cat
Women in the Home, 1897 Untitled
Seated Couple Having Tea, 1898 Untitled
Church Scene: Worshippers Amused by Off-Key Singer
Untitled Upper-Class Men and Women at an Elegant Tea Party
Fancy Dress Ball, 1899 Bidding Farewell
Biography: Alice Barber Stephens was born in Salem, New Jersey, on July 1 st, 1858. She was an American painter, illustrator and engraver. Her family moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and at 15 she joined the “Philadelphia School of Design for Women”. In 1876 she studied at “Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts” with Thomas Eakins. Alice left the Academy in 1880 and began working as a wood carver. In 1885 she turned to drawing with ink and as an illustrator. Financially self-sufficient, she was, then, able to study in Paris, at the “Académie Julien” and at the “Académie Colarossi”. She exhibited her work at the “Salon”, in Paris 1887. In 1890 she married Charles H. Stephens and they had a son. On her return to the United States, she began to include coal, oil and watercolor in her work. She also received numerous commissions to illustrate books from authors as Bret Harte and Arthur Conan Doyle and for the special editions of the works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Nathaniel Hawthorne. Edition of Louisa May Alcott’s Under the Lilacs, 1905
Lucy Webb Hayes, First Lady of the United States They Took You as Far as the Bedroom Door to See Her
In 1897, Alice was one of the founders of the “Plastic Club”, a women’s group in Philadelphia. The group was a response to the fact that women artists were prevented from joining clubs of male artists, except occasionally as associate members, a situation that remained unchanged until 1920, when the “Society of Illustrator” of New York admitted women as full members. Alice died on July 13, 1932. Her works are in the “Archives of American Art” in the “Smithsonian Institution”. A Doll’s Picnic, ca. 1910
Créditos Música: The Ragtime Dance Scott Joplin, 1868 -1917 Pesquisa e Formatação: Julia Zappa juliazappa@uol. com. br Revisão e Tradução de Texto: Ida Aranha sabercultural@sabercultural. com http: //www. sabercultural. org Dezembro 2014 Reading to Aunt March, 1911
Morning on a Southern Plantation Fontes: http: //www. delart. org/new-acquisition/ http: //thekellycollection. org/a_step 02. htm http: //www. plasticclub. org/abstephens. html http: //www. ettc. net/njarts/details. cfm? ID=1569 http: //en. wikipedia. org/wiki/Alice_Barber_Stephens
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