Eleanor Norcross
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Eleanor Norcross (1854 – 1925) is a talented impressionist artist, art collector and social reformer. She was a well-known figure in the Woman’s Liberation movement in America leading social movements for public education and helped to found the Pre-Columbian art collection at the Fitchburg Art Museum. She was known as the Isabella Stewart Gardner of her central Massachusetts region because she donated all of her paintings and art collection to create the Fitchburg Art Museum.
She was born in Fitchburg, Massachusetts, a growing, prosperous mill town about 50 miles west of Boston, and was the daughter of Augusta and Amasa Norcross. Her father eventually become the mayor of Fitchburg.
She attended Wheaton Seminary (now Wheaton College), where she distinguished herself as an outstanding scholar, leader and personality of unusual grace and charm. While at Wheaton, she wrote many essays for the still-thriving literary journal "Rushlight."
Most revealing in terms of her feminist orientation is an essay composed on the eve of her graduation:
"How we have longed for that day...But now perhaps because 'twas only distance that lent enchantment, perhaps because our senior year has done more for us than we realized, we cannot bear to think what it will be like to have no definite object in our daily lives...and so when we think of the universities waiting to receive the graduates of Exeter and Phillips '72, we are deeply tempted to the unmaidenly sin of envy and are deeply interested in that much discussed question "Why shall not women be admitted to our colleges?" Who can say how many mute and inglorious Minervas are doing tatting and crochet work because they haven't the privilege of the best education their circumstances can afford." [1]
Eleanor embarked upon the study of art following her graduation from Wheaton. She commuted daily by train from Fitchburg to Boston - no easy trip in those days - in order to attend the Massachusetts Normal School (Now the Massachusetts College of Art) where she earned a certificate in 1876. [2]
Eleanor lived in Paris from 1880 to 1920, studying with Alfred Steven and often exhibiting.
She exhibited as part of 'Women's Art' at the 'World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago' 1893, along with other prominent woman painters including Mary Cassatt and Josephine Granger Cochrane (1864-1953).Cite error: A <ref> tag is missing the closing </ref> (see the help page).
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- Academian Cassatt (Cassatt).
- [1] - Cassatt.
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