Alice Barber Stephens
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Alice Barber Stephens American Artist (1858-1932)
Illustrator, Painter, Teacher, Photographer, and Engraver
Alice Barber Stephens studied with T. Eakins, J. Dalziel, Philadelphia School of Design for Women, Academie Julian, and Academie Colarossi, Paris. She was the founder of the Plastic Club in 1897.
She was the illustrator for the works of Louisa May Alcott, Lucy Lillie, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Kate Douglas Wiggins, and Nathaniel Hawthorne. She also worked for Harper's, Century, Scribner's, and Collier's.
She scandalized, caused somewhat of furor among educators, and struck a blow for women's equality by establishing the First Life-Drawing Class for Women at the Philadelphia School of Design for Women (Falk, WWW)
Exhibitions:
16 annuals at PAFA (awarded 1890 Mary Smith Prize);
NAD, 1884;
Paris Salon, 1887;
Universal Exposition Paris, 1890 (Bronze Medal);
Exposition of Women's Work, Earl's Court, London, 1899 (Gold Medal, for her Illustration of Elliot's Middlemarch);
Works Held:
Library of Congress,
Philadelphia Historical Society
Antoinette
AV Fine Arts
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This biography from the archives of AskART.com.
Born in Salem, New Jersey, Alice Barber Stephens is noted for numerous engravings, quite often of social events, that appeared in magazines such as "Scribner's Monthly" and "Harper's Weekly."
She showed such early art talent that her parents allowed her to miss one day of school to take formal study at the Philadelphia School of Design for Women. In 1876 she enrolled at the Pennsylvania School of Fine Arts in the first class that admitted women, which was taught by Thomas Eakins. She was part of the group of women who petitioned for nude drawing classes for women and also was a founder of the Plastic Club in Philadelphia to fight prejudice against women artists.
She supported herself as an engraver and illustrator and spent most of the year in 1887 in Europe studying in museums. She enrolled in the Paris at the Academie Julian where she studied with Filippo Colarrossi. Returning to the United States, she married artist, Charles Stephens, and they had one son.
Credit:
Charlotte Rubinstein, "American Women Artists"
This biography was submitted by AV FINE ARTS
Alice Barber Stephens American Artist (1858-1932)
Illustrator, Painter, Teacher, Photographer, and Engraver
Alice Barber Stephens studied with T. Eakins, J. Dalziel, Philadelphia School of Design for Women, Academie Julian, and Academie Colarossi, Paris. She was the founder of the Plastic Club in 1897.
She was the illustrator for the works of Louisa May Alcott, Lucy Lillie, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Kate Douglas Wiggins, and Nathaniel Hawthorne. She also worked for Harper's, Century, Scribner's, and Collier's.
She scandalized, caused somewhat of furor among educators, and struck a blow for women's equality by establishing the First Life-Drawing Class for Women at the Philadelphia School of Design for Women (Falk, WWW)
Exhibitions:
16 annuals at PAFA (awarded 1890 Mary Smith Prize);
NAD, 1884;
Paris Salon, 1887;
Universal Exposition Paris, 1890 (Bronze Medal);
Exposition of Women's Work, Earl's Court, London, 1899 (Gold Medal, for her Illustration of Elliot's Middlemarch);
Works Held:
Library of Congress,
Philadelphia Historical Society
Antoinette
AV Fine Arts
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This biography from the archives of AskART.com.
Born in Salem, New Jersey, Alice Barber Stephens is noted for numerous engravings, quite often of social events, that appeared in magazines such as "Scribner's Monthly" and "Harper's Weekly."
She showed such early art talent that her parents allowed her to miss one day of school to take formal study at the Philadelphia School of Design for Women. In 1876 she enrolled at the Pennsylvania School of Fine Arts in the first class that admitted women, which was taught by Thomas Eakins. She was part of the group of women who petitioned for nude drawing classes for women and also was a founder of the Plastic Club in Philadelphia to fight prejudice against women artists.
She supported herself as an engraver and illustrator and spent most of the year in 1887 in Europe studying in museums. She enrolled in the Paris at the Academie Julian where she studied with Filippo Colarrossi. Returning to the United States, she married artist, Charles Stephens, and they had one son.
Credit:
Charlotte Rubinstein, "American Women Artists"
