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May Lydia Ames

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May Lydia Ames (1863 - 1943) was active/lived in Ohio.  May Ames is known for Sunlit seasonal landscape and still-life painting, educator, mural.

May Ames was born in Cleveland in 1863 and graduated from the Cleveland School of Art in 1900.  She received additional artistic training at the Cleveland Art Club and the Rhode Island School of Design. 

Ames was a teacher of art history and anatomy at the Cleveland School of Art for eighteen years.  She was a founder of the Women's Art Club in Cleveland as well as a member of the National Association of Women Painters and Sculptors.

Her landscape paintings were very popular and showed the range of her development as an artist.  The earliest paintings demonstrate a style influenced by the Barbizon School, while those that are done at a later period show the effect of her travels in Europe, especially Italy, as her work became more Impressionistic. 

Although Ames painted still lifes and portraits, she preferred landscape, especially sunlit scenes of abundant nature in spring and summer.  She was particularly at   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 1864 characters.]  Artist bio

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1 Miscellaneous Magazine References for May Lydia Ames
Magazine Article Date Author Color
American Art Review Ohio Women Painters, 1870-1950 June 2005 Shearer, Christine Fowler Yes
13 Book References for May Lydia Ames
Year Author Title Pages Color
2007 Massillon Museum Midwestern Visions of Impressionism: 1890-1930
(Exhibition catalog)		 0 Yes
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
2005 Shearer, Christine Fowler Breaking With Tradition: Ohio Women Painters, 1870-1950
(Exhibition catalog)		 64 Yes
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1996 Robinson, William H; David Steinburg Transformations in Cleveland Art, 1796-1946
(Exhibition catalog)		 0 Yes
1994 Kany, James M; Nannette V. Maciejunes Triumph of Color and Light: Ohio Impressionists and Post Impressionists
(Exhibition catalog)		 170 Yes
1986 Opitz, Glenn B (editor) Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers 1081 No
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
1984 Marlor, Clark S The Society of Independent Artists Exhibition Record 1917-1944
(Exhibition catalog)		 600 No
1982 Opitz, Glenn Dictionary of American Artists 372 No
1935 Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index 1130 No
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