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==Career==
==Career==
As a result of having her work including in a 1905 traveling exhibition organized by the Nashville Art Association, she received a commission in 1907 to paint the portrait of [[Holland Nimmons McTyeire]], the Methodist bishop who convinced [[Cornelius Vanderbilt]] to endow [[Vanderbilt University]].<ref name="TN"/> To work on the commission, she relocated to Nashville, Tennessee, where she remained the rest of her life - first occupying a studio on Church Street, and later one at Eighth Avenue and Broadway.<ref name="TN"/> She also conducted art classes in [[Bowling Green, Kentucky|Bowling Green]], [[Kentucky]], where her circle of friends included fellow artists [[Frances Fowler]], [[Sarah Peyton]], and [[Wickliffe Covington]].<ref name="WKU"/> She also maintained a lifelong friendship with landscape painter [[Orlando Gray Wales]],<ref name="CALL"/> who also was raised in Allentown and also studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts.
As a result of having her work including in a 1905 traveling exhibition organized by the Nashville Art Association, she received a commission in 1907 to paint the portrait of [[Holland Nimmons McTyeire]], the Methodist bishop who convinced [[Cornelius Vanderbilt]] to endow [[Vanderbilt University]].<ref name="TN"/> To work on the commission, she relocated to Nashville, Tennessee, where she remained the rest of her life - first occupying a studio on Church Street, and later one at Eighth Avenue and Broadway.<ref name="TN"/> She spoke fondly of the region and its residents, stating: "The country around Nashville is, some of it, the most beautiful I have ever seen––a large and bounteous field for the landscape painter. There are hosts of beautiful women and children and strong, fine men to inspire great portraits."<ref>{{Cite book|last=Johnson Collection (Spartanburg, S.C.),|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1022076481|title=Central to their lives : Southern women artists in the Johnson Collection|others=Blackman, Lynne,|isbn=978-1-61117-955-2|location=Columbia, South Carolina|oclc=1022076481}}</ref>
She also conducted art classes in [[Bowling Green, Kentucky|Bowling Green]], [[Kentucky]], where her circle of friends included fellow artists [[Frances Fowler]], [[Sarah Peyton]], and [[Wickliffe Covington]].<ref name="WKU" /> She also maintained a lifelong friendship with landscape painter [[Orlando Gray Wales]],<ref name="CALL" /> who also was raised in Allentown and also studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts.


Hergesheimer's most notable portraits are those of [[Speaker of the United States House of Representatives|Speaker of the House]] [[Joseph W. Byrns, Sr.]], which hangs in the [[United States Capitol]] building, and of Commodore [[Matthew Fontaine Maury]], which hangs in [[Maury Hall]] at the [[United States Naval Academy]] in [[Annapolis, Maryland|Annapolis]], [[Maryland]].<ref name="TN"/>
Hergesheimer's most notable portraits are those of [[Speaker of the United States House of Representatives|Speaker of the House]] [[Joseph W. Byrns, Sr.]], which hangs in the [[United States Capitol]] building, and of Commodore [[Matthew Fontaine Maury]], which hangs in [[Maury Hall]] at the [[United States Naval Academy]] in [[Annapolis, Maryland|Annapolis]], [[Maryland]].<ref name="TN"/>

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Ella Sophonisba Hergesheimer
Self-portrait (1931)
BornJanuary 7, 1873
Allentown, Pennsylvania
DiedJune 24, 1943 (1943-06-25) (aged 70)
Nashville, Tennessee
NationalityAmerican
EducationPhiladelphia School of Design for Women, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Shinnecock Hills Summer School of Art
Known forPainting

Ella Sophonisba Hergesheimer (January 7, 1873 – June 24, 1943) was an American illustrator, painter, and printmaker known for her portrayals of Tennessee society women and their children. As a printmaker, she pioneered the white-line woodcut.[1]

Early life

Portrait of Madeline McDowell Breckinridge, 1920
Speaker of the House Joseph W. Byrns, Sr. (1937); in the United States Capitol building
Portrait of Matthew Fontaine Maury, hanging in Maury Hall at the United States Naval Academy. Donated to the Academy in 1923

Hergesheimer was born in Allentown, Pennsylvania on January 7, 1873. Her parents were Charles P. Hergesheimer and Ellamanda Ritter Hergesheimer.[2][3] She was encouraged to create art in her childhood.[4]

Hergesheimer was the great-great granddaughter of Philadelphia artist Charles Willson Peale, who named one of his daughters Sophonisba after the Italian artist, Sofonisba Anguissola. Hergesheimer chose to use Sophonisba as her first name.[4]

Education

She studied at the Philadelphia School of Design for Women for two years,[2] and then went on to study at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts for four years.[2] At the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, she studied with Cecilia Beaux, Hugh Breckenridge, and William Merritt Chase.[5] She was considered by Chase to be one of his finest students, and spent the summer of 1900 studying at Chase's Shinnecock Hills Summer School of Art on Long Island.[5] As a senior at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, she was judged the best pupil in her class and was awarded the Cresson Traveling Scholarship.[2][6]

This allowed her to study abroad in Europe for three years, where she trained at the Académie Colarossi and exhibited at the Paris Salon.[2] She is listed among the students of Blanche Lazzell, who was known for her white-line color woodcuts. [7]

Career

As a result of having her work including in a 1905 traveling exhibition organized by the Nashville Art Association, she received a commission in 1907 to paint the portrait of Holland Nimmons McTyeire, the Methodist bishop who convinced Cornelius Vanderbilt to endow Vanderbilt University.[5] To work on the commission, she relocated to Nashville, Tennessee, where she remained the rest of her life - first occupying a studio on Church Street, and later one at Eighth Avenue and Broadway.[5] She spoke fondly of the region and its residents, stating: "The country around Nashville is, some of it, the most beautiful I have ever seen––a large and bounteous field for the landscape painter. There are hosts of beautiful women and children and strong, fine men to inspire great portraits."[8]

She also conducted art classes in Bowling Green, Kentucky, where her circle of friends included fellow artists Frances Fowler, Sarah Peyton, and Wickliffe Covington.[2] She also maintained a lifelong friendship with landscape painter Orlando Gray Wales,[1] who also was raised in Allentown and also studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts.

Hergesheimer's most notable portraits are those of Speaker of the House Joseph W. Byrns, Sr., which hangs in the United States Capitol building, and of Commodore Matthew Fontaine Maury, which hangs in Maury Hall at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland.[5]

Death

Hergesheimer died on June 24, 1943 in Davidson, Tennessee.[3]

Awards

  • Gold medal, Appalachian Exposition (1910)[5]
  • Gold medal, Tennessee State Exposition (1926)[4]

Major exhibitions

Colleagues and affiliations

  • American Artists Professional League
  • American Federation of Arts
  • National Arts Club
  • New Orleans Art Association
  • Salons of America
  • Society of Independent Artists
  • Southern States Art League
  • Washington, D.C. Watercolor Club

Collections

Some of the major collectors of Hergesheimer's work are:[9]

References

  1. ^ a b Outwater, Myra Yellin (February 11, 2001). "Easton Show Pulls Gems From Area Art Collections". The Morning Call. pp. F.10.
  2. ^ a b c d e f "Kentucky Women Artists, 1850-1970: Ella Sophonisba Hergesheimer". Archived from the original on 16 May 2008. Retrieved 16 November 2008.
  3. ^ a b Ella Sophonisba Hergesheimer. Death June 24, 1943. Tennessee Deaths and Burials, 1874–1955.
  4. ^ a b c Ella Sophonisba Hergesheimer. Johnson Collection. Retrieved August 20, 2014.
  5. ^ a b c d e f Walker, Celia. "Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture: Ella Sophonisba Hergesheimer". Retrieved 16 November 2008.[permanent dead link]
  6. ^ a b "University of Delaware: Ella Sophonisba Hergesheimer Collection". Archived from the original on September 7, 2008. Retrieved 16 November 2008.
  7. ^ Doll, Susan M. (2004), "Blanche Lazzell Biography", Blanche Lazzell: The Life and Work of an American Modernist, Morgantown: West Virginia University Press ISBN 0-937058-84-X
  8. ^ Johnson Collection (Spartanburg, S.C.),. Central to their lives : Southern women artists in the Johnson Collection. Blackman, Lynne,. Columbia, South Carolina. ISBN 978-1-61117-955-2. OCLC 1022076481.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link) CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  9. ^ Ella Sophonisba Hergesheimer. UD Library Collections. University of Delaware. Retrieved August 20, 2014.

Further reading

  • Burton, Vincent. "Some Portraits by Ella S. Hergesheimer." International Studio 37 (March 1909): 32-33.
  • Kelly, James C. "Ella Sophonisba Hergesheimer 1873-1943." Tennessee Historical Quarterly 44 (Summer 1985): 112-13.
  • Knowles, Susan. "Ella Sophonisba Hergesheimer (1873-1943)." Distinctive Women of Nashville. Nashville: Tennessee Historical Society, 1985.

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