Lucy Lee-Robbins Explained

Lucy Lee-Robbins
Birth Date:24 June 1865
Birth Place:New York
Death Place:Paris, France
Nationality:American
Field:Painting

Lucy Lee-Robbins (1865–1943) was an expatriate American painter living in France. She is known for her portraits of female nudes, an unusual subject for women painters in the late 19th century.[1] She was the first female associate member of the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts.

Biography

Lee-Robbins was born to Samuel Howland Robbins and Sophia Morgan Robbins, both of wealthy banking families, on 24 June 1865[2] in New York.[3] She and her family moved to Paris in the 1880s. In 1884 she joined a women's atelier run by Carolus-Duran and Jean-Jacques Henner. The same year her portrait was painted by Carolus-Duran.[2]

In 1887 Lee-Robbins debuted at the Salon of the Société des Artistes Français.[4] She also exhibited at the National Academy of Design, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the .[2]

Starting in 1889 she exhibited with the Societe Nationale des Beaux-Arts and in 1890 was appointed the first female associate member of the Societe.[2]

Lee-Robbins exhibited her work at the Palace of Fine Arts at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois.[5]

In 1895 she married fellow painter Hendrik-George van Rinkhuyzen.[2] [5]

Lee-Robbins died on 28 July 1943 in Paris, France. Because her final years were spent in Nazi-occupied Paris, the disposition of her paintings is not well documented.[2]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Summerlin . Amanda . Baring Themselves: Representations of the Female Nude by American Women Artists, 1881-1930 . American University Digital Research Archive . American University . 17 September 2018.
  2. Fortune . Brandon Brame . "Not above Reproach": The Career of Lucy Lee-Robbins . American Art . April 1998 . 12 . 1 . 41–65 . 10.1086/424311 . 191619134 .
  3. Web site: Lee Robbins, Lucy . Oxford index . Oxford University Press . 17 September 2018 . en . 31 October 2011.
  4. Web site: Portrait of Lucy Lee-Robbins, 1884 . The Chrysler Collection . 17 September 2018.
  5. Web site: Nichols . K. L. . Women's Art at the World's Columbian Fair & Exposition, Chicago 1893. 17 September 2018.