Bessie Marsh Brewer Explained

Bessie Marsh Brewer
Birth Place:Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Death Place:New York City, United States
Nationality:Canadian-American
Education:New York School of Applied Design for Women, Art Students League of New York
Field:Painter, Printmaker

Bessie Marsh Brewer (1884–1952) was a Canadian-American printmaker, painter, sculptor and teacher. She studied at the New York School of Applied Design for Women and at the Art Students League with Robert Henri and John Sloan.[1] She illustrated for Century, Phoenix, Collier's, and St. Nicholas magazines.[2] [3]

She exhibited at the 1913 New York Armory Show where she showed three drawings, The Furnished Room, Curiosity and Putting Her Monday Name on Her Letterbox.[4] Amongst the aforementioned skills, Bessie Marsh Brewer created in the styles of Realism, Representation, and Naturalism.[5]

She was the mother of Sam Pope Brewer, New York Times correspondent whose wife later remarried to Kim Philby.[6]

Awards

New York School of Applied Design for Women in commercial art (1922).[2]

See also

List of artists in the Armory Show

Notes and References

  1. Petteys, Chris, Dictionary of Women Artists: An international dictionary of women artists born before 1900, G.K. Hall & Co, Boston, Ma, 1985. ISBN 978-0-8161-8456-9.
  2. Marian Wardle, American Women Modernists: The Legacy of Robert Henri, 1910–1945, 2005, 183
  3. Book: Collier's. 1912. 49. Collier's. 2–5. 2015-03-22.
  4. 1913 Armory Show 50th Anniversary Exhibition, 1963 Henry Street Settlement, NY 1963
  5. Web site: Bessie Brewer - Artist, Fine Art, Auction Records, Prices, Biography for Bessie Marsh Brewer. askart.com. 2015-03-22.
  6. Mrs Bessie Brewer . Daily News . 1952 . 30 Apr 1952, Wed . 504 . 2 February 2020.