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Josefa Crosby Sewall Backus (1875 - 1959) was active/lived in District Of Columbia, New Hampshire. Josefa Backus is known for Landscape-townscape and figure painting.
JOSEFA CROSBY SEWALL BACKUS (1875-1959), American
(Painter)
Josefa Crosby was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1875. A well trained and gifted artist, it appears she studied art in Paris, France early in life. Her known address were Dublin, New Hampshire starting in 1919, Englewood, New Jersey in the early 1920s, Washington D.C. from 1928 to 1932, and she moved permanently to Washington D.C. in 1950 after the death of her second husband. She also wintered in Sea Island, Georgia in the years 1935 and 1936. However, she was a world traveler and painted works of London, the Pacific, New York, Mexico, Guatemala, and Puerto Rico. A wealthy woman, her first marriage was to Oscar Sewall, and after his death, she was married to Grosvenor Hyde Backus.
She was a member of the Washington Society of Artists and the Union des Femmes Peintres et Sculpteurs in Paris. Her work was exhibited at the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, D.C., the Argent Gallery, New York City 1938, the Washing ...
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4 Book References for Josefa Crosby Sewall Backus
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2005
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Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
479
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2005
Davenport, Ray
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2421
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1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
3724
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1996
McMahan, Virgil E
The Artists of Washington DC 1796-1996
240
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