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Elizabeth Nourse

Elizabeth Nourse (1859 - 1938) was active/lived in Ohio, New York / France.  Elizabeth Nourse is known for Domestic interior, women with children-painting.

Elizabeth Nourse, born at Mt. Healthy (Cincinnati), Ohio on 26 October 1859, enrolled with her twin sister Adelaide at the McMicken School of Design in 1874 and took instruction from Thomas S. Noble (1835-1907). Adelaide would become a wood-carver.  At that time there was still no possibility for a woman to draw after the nude male figure, which was an important step in the traditional curriculum for art students.  Some of Elizabeth's early works show the indirect influence of Frank Duveneck's broad-brushed technique (e.g. Old Man and Child, 1887). Nourse studied briefly under William Sartain (1843-1924) in New York and met William Merritt Chase and J. Alden Weir.  She traveled to Paris with Louise, another sister, in the summer of 1887 then enrolled in the Académie Julian's school for women.  Already in the following year she was successful in showing La mère (now in a private collection) at the Salon — and it was hung "on the line," that is, at the most adv   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 15002 characters.]  Artist bio

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Research resources

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Similar artists

.  There are 24 similar (related) artists for Elizabeth Nourse available:    Dixie Selden,  Charles Kaelin,  Henry Mosler,  Charles Meurer,  Frank Duveneck,  John Ellsworth Weis,  Hermann Dudley Murphy,  Edward Henry Potthast,  William Louis Sonntag Sr,  Frederick William MacMonnies,  Blanche (Nettie Blanche) Lazzell,  William McGregor Paxton,  Walter Launt Palmer,  Bessie Onahotema Potter (Keyes) Vonnoh,  Henry Bacon,  George Loftus Noyes,  Louis Ritman,  William Samuel Horton,  John Hauser,  Levi Wells Prentice,  William Chadwick,  Lilla Cabot Perry,  Robert Frederick Blum,  John Francis Murphy