Family: Elizabeth Nourse

by Arthur Weis

Elizabeth Nourse Elizabeth Nourse (October 26, 1859 – October 8, 1938) Realist-style portrait,& landscape painter. Elizabeth was born in Mt. Healthy, Ohio, near the large Cincinnati area. She also worked in decorative painting and sculpture. Spent her career as an expatriate in Paris, earning several accolades based on her paintings. In 1887, 28-year-old Elizabeth, accompanied by her older sister, Louise, went to study at the Academie Julian in Paris. Described by her French contemporaries as "the first woman painter of America" and a local French sculptor, Clement Barnhorn called Nourse "the dean of American woman painters in France and one of the most eminent contemporary artists of her sex," Nourse was the first American woman to be voted into the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts. She also had the honor of having one of her paintings purchased by the French government. Elizabeth often selected subjects from the local area - French peasants, rural working women and women with young children, depicted as they really were. Her work showed a sensitive lean, and not bordering as sentimental ,but realistic, showing such as the raw red hands of a working mother. . Look Inside Short video on youtube from this short link (copy /paste into your browser ->

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Published June 29, 2019