Clara Taggart MacChesney

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Clara Taggart MacChesney
Clara Taggart MacChesney 1899
Born1860 (1860)
Brownsville, California
DiedAugust 6, 1928(1928-08-06) (aged 67–68)
London, England
NationalityAmerican
Known forPainting

Clara Taggart MacChesney (sometimes McChesney) (1860/61-1928) was an American painter and writer known for her figurative painting, landscapes and “scenes and people of Holland.”[1]: 458 

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

Paris, where she enrolled in the Académie Colarossi and studied with Courtois.[4]

MacChesney exhibited watercolors at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, and was awarded a medal for her work. An article in The San Francisco Call announced that she had placed two paintings in the 1900 World's Exposition in Paris, and remarked that: "Both American and foreign artists have referred to Miss McChesney as 'America's foremost woman painter.' "[5] She would later exhibit at the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair, winning a bronze medal.[6]

She also wrote and published pieces for New York art publications, “frequently on her lifelong friend Elizabeth Nourse.”[1]: 458 

MacChesney lived in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California in the 1920s. She wrote about Carmel-by-the-Sea and its pageant and drama in the New-York Tribune.[7]

Paints on canvas; paints in words. Portraits her specialty and has turned the trick of feature work on both New York Times and Tribune. Twenty-two times across the ocean and maintains a studio in Carmel.

— George Sterling[8]

Death

She died in

London on August 6, 1928.[2]

Gallery

  • A Good Story (Portrait of Robert Loftin Newman), 1900
    A Good Story (Portrait of Robert Loftin Newman), 1900
  • The Last Letter, 1917
    The Last Letter, 1917
  • portrait of Moncure Daniel Conway
    portrait of
    Moncure Daniel Conway
  • White House, Evening
    White House, Evening
  • Girl Reading by a Window
    Girl Reading by a Window

Works

References

  1. ^ a b Petteys, Chris, Dictionary of Women Artists: An international dictionary of women artists born before 1900, G.K. Hall & Co., Boston, 1985.
  2. ^ a b "Clara McChesney - Artist, Fine Art Prices, Auction Records for Clara McChesney". www.askart.com. Retrieved 7 August 2018.
  3. ^ Opitz, Glenn B, editor, Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers, Apollo Book, Poughkeepsie NY, 1986, p. 565
  4. ISBN 0961611200
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  5. ^ "San Francisco Call 23 December 1899 — California Digital Newspaper Collection". cdnc.ucr.edu. Retrieved 7 August 2018.
  6. ^ 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
  7. ^ Clara T. MacChesney (15 Aug 1915). "Carmel-By-The-Sea and its Pageant-Drama". New-York Tribune. New York, New York. p. 25. Retrieved 2022-10-16.
  8. ^ George Sterling (1928-12-14). "Poems of Carmel". Carmel Pine Cone. Carmel-by-the-Sea, California. p. 8. Retrieved 2022-10-14.
  9. ^ "Clara Taggart MacChesney". Smithsonian American Art Museum. Retrieved 7 August 2018.
  10. ^ Still Life with Plate and Kettle, from SIRIS.
  11. ^ Hay Barges, San Francisco, from SIRIS.
  12. ^ George C. Pardee, from SIRIS.

External links

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