Ellen Maria Carpenter Explained

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Ellen Maria Carpenter (–) was an American landscape and portrait painter.

Ellen Maria Carpenter was born on in Killingly, Connecticut.[1] She was educated at Milford High School and studied art under Thomas Edwards and Lowell Institute in Boston. She later studied under Tony Robert-Fleury in Europe.[2]

She painted numerous landscapes and was noted for her depictions of the White Mountains of New Hampshire. She travelled extensively and painted scenes from California, Algeria, Egypt, Italy, and Spain. Walter Shaw Sparrow wrote that her "landscape art reveals at times the menacing suggestion of great rivers and of high solitary mountains."[3]

Ellen Maria Carpenter died on July 1, 1908, in Boston.[4]

Notes and References

  1. Appleton's Cyclopedia of American Biography, edited by James Grant Wilson, John Fiske and Stanley L. Klos. Six volumes, New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1887-1889
  2. Book: Benezit . Benezit Dictionary Of Artists, Bulow-Cossin . 2006 . Grund . Internet Archive.
  3. Book: Women Painters of the WorldFrom the Time of Caterina Vigri, 1413-1463, to Rosa Bonheur and the Present Day . 1905 . Sparrow . Walter Shaw . English.
  4. News: 2 July 1908 . A Boston Woman Artist . 4 . Boston Evening Transcript .