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Caroline Augusta Lord
Self Portrait
Born1860 (1860)
Cincinnati, Ohio
Died1927 (aged 66–67)
Cincinnati, Ohio
NationalityAmerican
Known forPainting, Educator

Caroline Augusta Lord (1860-1927) was an American painter[1] who taught at the Art Academy of Cincinnati for decades.

Biography

Lord was born in 1860 in Cincinnati.[2] Beginning in 1884 she attended the Art Academy of Cincinnati where she studied with Thomas Satterwhite Noble and Lewis C. Lutz. She traveled to Paris in 1890 to study with Jean-Paul Laurens and Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant at the Académie Julian. While studying in Paris Lord became acquainted with fellow painter Elizabeth Nourse. In 1892 Lord moved to New York where she studied with Kenyon Cox at the Art Students League of New York.[3]

From 1892 through 1895 she exhibited at the Paris Salon.[4] She exhibited her work in the Cincinnati Room of the Woman's Building at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois.[5]

Lord was a member of the Society of Western Artists and the Cincinnati Women's Art Club. She taught at the Art Academy of Cincinnati for thirty-four years.[3]

Lord died in 1927 in Cincinnati.[3]

Acme Laundry in Cincinnati

Series of three paintings depicting women employees at the Acme Laundry located at 911 Vine Street in Cincinnati, painted by Lord in 1911.[6]

References

  1. ^ "Caroline Augusta Lord". Clara: Database of Women Artists. National Museum of Women in the Arts. Retrieved 12 January 2019.
  2. ^ "Lord, Caroline A. (1860 - 1928), Painter : Benezit Dictionary of Artists - oi". Benezit Dictionary of Artists. Oxford Index. doi:10.1093/benz/9780199773787.article.b00111586. Retrieved 12 January 2019.
  3. ^ a b c "Caroline Lord". AskArt. Retrieved 11 January 2019.
  4. ^ Nichols, K. L. "Women's Art at the World's Columbian Fair & Exposition, Chicago 1893". Retrieved 11 January 2019.
  5. ^ "Lord, Caroline Augusta, 1860 - 1927 OhioPix". Ohio History Connection. Retrieved 12 January 2019.
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