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]
New York School of Applied Design for Women in commercial art (1922).[2]
List of artists in the Armory Show