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Evelyn Cary

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Evelyn Rumsey Cary (1855 - 1924) was active/lived in New York.  Evelyn Cary is known for Portrait, landscape, art nouveau poster.

Buffalo, New York artist Evelyn Rumsey Cary is best known for her design of an Art Nouveau style poster depicting an Indian princess at Niagara Falls. She painted "The Spirit of Niagara", the official emblem of the Pan American Exposition, in 1901, and it was used in Pan American advertising. It now hangs in the Buffalo and Erie County Historical Society, in Buffalo, New York.

She also is noted for her genre works and portraits including a portrait of Charlotte Mulligan in the Twentieth Century Club, which Charlotte founded.

Evelyn was the wife of Dr. Charles Cary, whom she married in 1879, and aunt of sculptor Charles Cary Rumsey. Evelyn Rumsey was also the daughter of Bronson C Rumsey. She studied at the Art Students League of Buffalo with Alfred Quinton Collins and was a member of the Buffalo Society of Artists, which she served as President in 1897.

Exhibition venues included the Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo in 1901 that f   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 1429 characters.]  Artist bio

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1 Miscellaneous Magazine References for Evelyn Cary
Magazine Article Date Author Color
The Magazine Antiques The Poster/Turn of the Century November 1994 Brandt, Frederick Yes
10 Book References for Evelyn Cary
Year Author Title Pages Color
2005 AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)		 The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2005 Davenport, Ray Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition 2421 No
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1994 Brandt, Frederick R Designed To Sell: Turn of the Century Posters 1994 Yes
1990 Gerdts, William H Art Across America: New England, New York, Mid-Atlantic (Volume One) 421 Yes
1985 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947 707 No
1985 Petteys, Chris with Hazel Gustow, Ferris Olin and Verna Ritchie Dictionary of Women Artists: An International Dictionary of Women Artists Born Before 1900 851 No
1950 Barker, Virgil American Painting History and Interpretation 715 No
1915 Editors Who's Who in American Art, 1915 American Art Annual 0 No
1901 Editors Who's Who in American Art-1901: American Art Annual 0 No
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