Elsie Dodge Pattee Explained

Elsie Dodge Pattee Auger
Birth Name:	Elsie Dodge
Birth Date:	4 September 1876^[1]
Birth Place:	Chelsea, MA
Death Place:	Old Lyme, CT

Elsie Dodge Pattee Auger (1876–1975) was an American miniature painter.

Early life

She was the daughter of David L. Dodge and Emma H. Dodge; her parents were wealthy from their business in dry goods.^[2] In her youth she studied in London and Dresden.^[2] While in London, she married Elmer Ellsworth Pattee in 1900. She studied at the Académie Julian in Paris.^[2] She stayed in France for twenty years, returning to the United States in 1912.^[3] Her first husband Elmer Ellsworth Pattee died in 1925 in France, while Pattee was in New York. Her second husband was Charles E. Auger.

Art career

Dodge was a member of the American Society of Miniature Painters. She illustrated children's books, including Christmas, The Animal Book by William Allen Butler.^[4] In 1915 she received a medal at the Panama-Pacific Exposition.

Her work is included in the collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art,^[5] the Brooklyn Museum,^[6] and the Philadelphia Museum of Art.^[7]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Pattee, Elsie Dodge . Benezit Dictionary of Artists . 2011 . en . 10.1093/benz/9780199773787.article.B00136986. 978-0-19-977378-7 .
2. Book: Barratt . Carrie Rebora . Zabar . Lori . American Portrait Miniatures in the Metropolitan Museum of Art . 2010 . Metropolitan Museum of Art . 978-1-58839-357-9 . en.
3. Web site: (Memorial) Elsie Dodge Pattee Auger . archive.org/ . 1975.
4. Web site: Elsie Dodge Pattee Smithsonian American Art Museum . americanart.si.edu.
5. Web site: The Black Fan . www.metmuseum.org.
6. Web site: Brooklyn Museum . www.brooklynmuseum.org.
7. Web site: Philadelphia Museum of Art - Collections Object : Portrait of Lillian . www.philamuseum.org.