Ethel McClellan Plummer explained

Ethel McClellan Plummer (March 30, 1888  - October 30, 1936) was an American artist[1] who resided primarily in New York.[2] She worked primarily with drawings, prints, and paintings. She was the Vice President of the Society of Illustrators and Artists and exhibited at the Society of Independent Artists in 1910, the MacDowell Club in 1915, the Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture by Women Artists for the Benefit of Woman Suffrage Campaign at the Macbeth Gallery (1915). She worked as an illustrator for various magazines, including Life, Vogue, Shadowland, and Vanity Fair.[3]

Plummer was born on March 30, 1888 in Brooklyn, New York City.[4] She studied at the Packer Institute and the New York School of Art.[5] On December 25, 1917, she married fellow artist Norman Jacobsen (1884–1944) in Hackensack, New Jersey.[5] He was soon drafted into the American Expeditionary Forces and chose to pursue his art career in Europe after World War I. They divorced in late 1929[6] and Plummer married Frederic E. Humphreys. She died from a cerebral hemorrhage on October 30, 1936 in Manhattan[7] [8] and was interred at the Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn on November 2.[9]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Checklist of the Exhibition - American Beauties: Drawings from the Golden Age of Illustration. March 30, 2004. Library of Congress. 10 December 2009.
  2. Web site: CLARA. 2008. National Museum of Women in the Arts. Washington, D.C.. 10 December 2009. https://web.archive.org/web/20110721213140/http://clara.nmwa.org/index.php?g=entity_detail&entity_id=6700. 21 July 2011. dead.
  3. Book: Henri, Robert . Marian Wardle . Sarah Burns . Brigham Young University Museum of Art. American Women Modernists: The Legacy of Robert Henri, 1910-1945. Marian Wardle. Rutgers University Press. 2005. 205. 978-0-8135-3684-2. 10 December 2009.
  4. Book: Herringshaw, Thomas William . https://books.google.com/books?id=UoYcAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA547 . Plummer, Ethel . Herringshaw's American Blue Book of Biography . 1926 . 547 . American Blue Book Publishers . Chicago, Illinois . 24 October 2024.
  5. Book: Holmes, Frank R. . https://books.google.com/books?id=xzHTAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA676 . Jacobsen, Ethel Plummer . Who's Who in New York (City and State) . 1924 . 676 . Who's Who Publications, Inc. . New York, New York . 24 October 2024.
  6. Web site: Biographical Sketch of Ethel Plummer . Mindy . Johnson . Biographical Database of NAWSA Suffragists, 1890-1920 . Alexander Street . 24 October 2024.
  7. News: Ethel Plummer; Artist Was Wife of Colonel F. E. Humphreys of 102d Engineers. . November 1, 1936 . N10 . The New York Times . 24 October 2024.
  8. News: Deaths: Humphreys . November 2, 1936 . 21 . The New York Times . 24 October 2024.
  9. Web site: Burial Search: Humphreys, Ethel Plummer . The Green-Wood Historic Fund . 24 October 2024.

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