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Madeline Yale Wynne
Born(1847-09-25)September 25, 1847
Newport, New York
DiedJanuary 4, 1918(1918-01-04) (aged 70)
Asheville, North Carolina
Resting placeShelburne, Massachusetts[1]
NationalityAmerican
ChildrenPhilip Henry
Sydney Yale
Parent(s)Linus Yale Jr.
Katherine Brooks.
FamilyYale

Madeline Yale Wynne (September 25, 1847 − January 4, 1918) was an American artist, teacher, writer, and philanthropist. She became the first President of Deerfield Society of Arts and Crafts, and a founding member of the Chicago Arts and Crafts Society.

Life

Tree Building of Chicago, where Madeline Yale Wynne had a studio for her art

Madeline was born in Newport, New York, the daughter of Linus Yale, Jr., and Katherine (Catherine) Brooks, members of the Yale family.[2][3] Her brothers were John Brooks Yale and Julian Yale, both members of the Union League of New York.[4] Her brother John was married to Marie Louise, daughter of U.S. Treasury Secretary Hugh McCulloch, who was the main financier of the American Civil War for Abraham Lincoln. In 1865, when she was 18, Madeline married to Senator Henry Winn, son of Senator Reuben Winn.[5] Henry Winn was a graduate from Yale, then Harvard, and had been previously Major during the Civil War, assistant Attorney General, then personal Secretary to Senator George Sumner, before becoming Senator, and his father was a postmaster.[6][7]

The couple had two sons—Philip Henry, born January 17, 1868,[8] and Sydney Yale, born September 6, 1870[2]—but the marriage came to an end in 1874.[5] Philip Henry Wynne was an engineer from MIT, and went on working for the Illinois Steel Company, which became U.S. Steel after the acquisition of Carnegie Steel, and for Thomson-Houston Electric Company, which became General Electric.[9] He thereafter operated his own business, designing scientific apparatus, such as ore separators and galvanometers, still in use in various mines.[9] Sydney Yale Wynne (1870-1915), was one of the first Doctors of West Point, New York, and was the father of Sydney Julian Wynne, Lieutenant commander in the U.S. Navy.[10][11] He graduated from Harvard and was also the grandfather of Lieutenant Colonel Theodore Fite, son of Colonel John H. Fite.[12] Following her divorce, she changed the spelling of her last name to Wynne.[8]

In the early 1860s, her husband, Senator Winn, founded with his in-laws Linus Yale Jr. and John Brooks Yale, the Yale & Winn Manufacturing Company, which became a successful enterprise, and received an award from Napoleon III's Universal Exposition of Paris in 1867.[13][14] He tried to do business in South America, but his venture proved unsuccessful, and his ship the Caribbean was wrecked in the ocean and uninsured.[13] He later established a law practice in Massachusetts when he became Senator in 1877, and became Mayor of Malden in 1892.

Having been schooled in the technical arts by her father, Madeline studied painting at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston during 1877−1878, at the Art Students League of New York in early 1880,[15] and later in Europe.[16] In the fall of 1880, she went on a tour to Europe, visiting Athens, Florence, Madrid, Paris, Venice, and Vienna, meeting with French painter Thomas Couture.[13] While in Athens, she sketched the Acropolis, and was invited to dine with German archeologist Heinrich Schliemann, but could not attend. During the 1880s, while visiting Florence, she also met painter Frank Duveneck and fellow craftsman Annie Cabot Putnam, of the Cabot and Putnam family.[13] The two became lifelong partners, initially sharing a studio in Boston.[17]

After having been a resident of Shelburne Falls for most of her adult life, in 1885, Madeline began spending her summers with Annie at the village of Deerfield, Massachusetts.[18] Assisted by her son Philip,[8] she worked with Annie to restore and refurbish the historic Willard House, which they dubbed the "Manse".[17] This 1768 Georgian mansion was the former home of the Reverend Samuel Willard.[19]

In 1895, she turned to writing; Madeline's supernatural short story "The Little Room" was published in Harper's Magazine and was well received. It was later released in a collection of Wynne's short stories called The Little Room and Other Stories, along with The Sequel to the Little Room.[20] (More recently, "The Little Room" appeared in the 2009 horror compendium, American Fantastic Tales, edited by Peter Straub.[21]) She wrote for Atlantic Monthly, Harper's Monthly, Home Beautiful, and various other publications.[2]

Madeline helped to found and lead the Deerfield Society of Arts and Crafts in 1901, which became an umbrella organization for the arts movement in the village. She became involved with Hull House, had a studio in Chicago's Tree Building, and was a member of the International Association of Lyceum Clubs in London, England.[7] Wynne served as the curator as the movement produced a broad array of artistry, including jewelry, photography, weaving, basketry, rugs, and furniture.[18] She and Annie became very influential in developing arts and crafts in the community, with Madeline organizing tours of the village's craftwork and arranging speaking engagements. The two women were expert metal smiths in their own right.[22]

References

  1. ^ "Madeline Yale Wynne", Find a Grave, retrieved 2015-11-22.
  2. ^ a b c Leonard, John William, ed. (1914), Woman's Who's who of America: A Biographical Dictionary of Contemporary Women of the United States and Canada, vol. 1, American Commonwealth Company, p. 909.
  3. ^ Rodney Horace Yale (1908). "Yale genealogy and history of Wales. The British kings and princes. Life of Owen Glyndwr. Biographies of Governor Elihu Yale". Archive.org. Milburn and Scott company. pp. 437-442-554.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link)
  4. ^ "The Union League Club of New York", The Club-house, University of Michigan, 1905, page 80-121.
  5. ^ a b Rotman, Deborah (2009), Historical Archaeology of Gendered Lives, Contributions To Global Historical Archaeology, Springer Science & Business Media, pp. 58−60, ISBN 978-0387896687.
  6. ^ Deborah Rotman (25 July 2009). Historical Archaeology of Gendered Lives. ISBN 9780387896687. Retrieved 2022-11-30.
  7. ^ a b I Have Pretty Work : Madeline Yale Wynne and the American Craft Revival, Early American Culture, University of Delaware, Jessica H. Beels, 1995, p.13
  8. ^ a b c "Philip Henry Wynne", University of Texas at Austin, Physics Department History, retrieved 2015-12-11.
  9. ^ a b Greenfield Gazette and Courier Feb 15, 1919, Deerfield
  10. ^ U.S. Navy Civil Engineer Corps Bulletin, Volumes 11 à 12, p. 28
  11. ^ The San Bernardino County Sun Tue July 20, 1937.
  12. ^ "West Point graduate and third-generation Redlander dies at 96". Retrieved 2022-11-30.
  13. ^ a b c d I Have Pretty Work : Madeline Yale Wynne and the American Craft Revival, Early American Culture, University of Delaware, Jessica H. Beels, 1995
  14. ^ Exposition Universelle, 1867, Paris
  15. ^ Madeline Yale Wynne (1847–1918), Memorial Hall Museum, retrieved 2015-12-15.
  16. ^ "In Memory of Madeline Yale Wynne", Lawrence J. Gutter Collection of Chicagoana, 1918, retrieved 2015-11-22.
  17. ^ a b Brandt, Beverly Kay (2009), The Craftsman and the Critic: Defining Usefulness and Beauty in Arts and Crafts-era Boston, University of Massachusetts Press, pp. 145−146, ISBN 978-1558496774, retrieved 2015-12-15.
  18. ^ a b Stewart, Don (September 27, 2013), "Skilled Hands & High Ideals", The Recorder, retrieved 2015-12-15.
  19. ^ Yale, Catharine Brooks (1887), Story of the old Willard house of Deerfield, Mass, Houghton, Mifflin and Company, retrieved 2015-12-15.
  20. ^ Weinstock, Jeffrey (2009), Scare Tactics: Supernatural Fiction by American Women, Fordham Univ Press, pp. 59−69, ISBN 978-0823229871.
  21. ^ Drabelle, Dennis (October 31, 2009), "Book review: 'American Fantastic Tales' edited by Peter Straub", The Washington Post, retrieved 2015-12-11.
  22. ^ Rotman, D. L. (2012), "Domestic Production for Public Markets: The Arts and Crafts Movement in Deerfield, Massachusetts, c. 1850−1911", in Spencer-Wood, Suzanne M. (ed.), Historical and Archaeological Perspectives on Gender Transformations: From Private to Public, Contributions To Global Historical Archaeology, Springer Science & Business Media, pp. 54−55, ISBN 978-1461448631.
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