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Anna Mary Richards Brewster

Anna Mary Richards Brewster (1870 - 1952) was active/lived in Massachusetts, New York.  Anna Brewster is known for Landscape, genre painting, illustration.

Born in Germantown, Pennsylvania, Anna Brewster was the daughter of noted marine and landscape painter, William Trost Richards whose reputation eclipsed hers. However, she earned a prestigious reputation as an active professional artist for fifty-five years. Her early work reflected the tight detailing of her father's style, but as she learned to paint faster, her canvases became looser and looser in style, and many have a warm tonality and atmosphere.

She learned painting technique from her father and by age fourteen was exhibiting at the National Academy in New York City. In 1888, she studied at the Cowles Art School in Boston under Dennis Bunker and later studied in New York with John LaFarge and William Merritt Chase. She studied in Paris at the Academy Julian and then made her home in England for nine years. She also painted throughout Europe, Egypt, Palestine, and North Africa.

She married William Tenney Brewster, professor at Barnard College, and in 1   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 1802 characters.]  Artist bio

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Facts about Anna Mary Richards Brewster

   Publications  Book References:  34
Magazine References:  2

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2 Miscellaneous Magazine References for Anna Mary Richards Brewster
Magazine Article Date Author Color
American Art Review An American Collection June 1999 Elliott, Susan Sipple Yes
American Art Review The Sellars Collection April 1997 Woods, Jean Yes
34 Book References for Anna Mary Richards Brewster
Year Author Title Pages Color
2009 Stott Annette; Holly Koons McCullough et al Dutch Utopia: American Artists in Holland, 1880-1914
(Exhibition catalog)
288 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
2004 Pyle, Amy (Spanierman Gallery) Art for the New Collector III Re-Emerging American Artists
(Exhibition catalog)
68 Yes
2003 Editor: Spanierman Gallery Art for the New Collector II Re-Emerging American Artists
(Exhibition catalog)
64 Yes
2003 Strass, Stephanie (Essay) American Women Artists, 1819-1947 The Neville-Strass Collection 48 Yes
2002 Spanierman Gallery Art for the New Collector 1840-2001
(Exhibition catalog)
48 Yes
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1998 Boone, M Elizabeth Espana: American Artists and the Spanish Experience (Hollis Taggart Galleries)
(Exhibition catalog)
112 Yes
1997 Schwarz, Robert Devlin 150 Years of Philadelphia Still Life Painting
(Exhibition catalog)
130 Yes
1995 Heller, Jules and Nancy G. Heller North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century A Biographical Dictionary 612 No
1993 Eitner, Lorenz (others) The Drawing Collection Stanford University Museum of Art 418 Yes
1992 Thiede, Rolf; Carolyn Park, Robert D. Schwarz A Special Exhibition of American Paintings Priced Under $7,500.
(Exhibition catalog)
72 No
1991 Marlor, Clark S The Salons of America
(Exhibition catalog)
242 No
1991 Sternberg, Paul E Art by American Women Collection Louise and Alan Sellars
(Exhibition catalog)
146 Yes
1990 Falk, Peter Hastings Annual Exhibition Record, National Academy of Design: 1901-1950
(Exhibition catalog)
622 No
1990 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) The Annual Exhibition Record of the Art Institute of Chicago
(Exhibition catalog)
1117 No
1990 Hall, Audrey Anna Richards Brewster
(Exhibition catalog)
48 No
1990 Sternberg, Paul E Centennial Exhibition 1889-1989 Members National Assoc Women Artists
(Exhibition catalog)
62 Yes
1989 Falk, Peter Hastings Annual Exhibition Record, 1876-1913, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Volume II
(Exhibition catalog)
612 No
1988 Falk, Peter Hastings Dictionary of Signatures & Monogram 556 No
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
1985 Smithsonian Institution National Portrait Gallery Collection Illustrated Checklist 461 No
1984 Opitz, Glenn B (editor) Dictionary of American Sculptors: 18th Century to Present 656 No
1982 Opitz, Glenn Dictionary of American Artists 372 No
1982 Rubinstein, Charlotte Streifer American Women Artists from Early Times to the Present 560 Yes
1981 Nassau County Museum William Cullen Bryant (and the) Hudson River School of Landscape Painting
(Exhibition catalog)
61 Yes
1981 Newark Museum American Art in the Newark Museum Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture 431 Yes
1973 Collins, Jim L. Women Artists in America: Eighteenth Century to Present 426 No
1968 Kennedy Galleries The American Artist Abroad
(Exhibition catalog)
75 Yes
1965 Gerdts, William H Women Artists of America 1707-1964
(Exhibition catalog)
32 No
1935 Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index 1130 No
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