Rosina Emmet Sherwood (1854 - 1948) American
Rosina Emmet Sherwood (1854 - 1948) American
Pastel on Paper
Measure 25"in H x 17"in W and 32 1/2"in H x 24 1/2"in W with frame
Known for: Genre, child portrait and interior scene painting
Name variants: Rosina Emmet
Biography: In March, 1993 the Emmet Family of Women Artists was the subject of an exhibition held at the Borghi & Company Gallery in New York City and featured in the New Yorker's "Talk of the Town" column with this verbiage: "The first of the Emmet women to become an artist was Ellen II's great-great-grandmother, Elizabeth Emmet Le Roy. Other Emmet artists include: Jilia Colt Pierson Emmet; Rosina Emmet Sherwood; Lydia Field Emmet; Jane Emmet de Glehn; Ellen Emmet Rand; and Edith Leslie Emmet. Only the last is missing from the current show. Ellen II lives in Brooklyn and runs a catering business" Her family home was Woodland House in upper New York State, and likely her earliest art lessons came from her mother, Julia Pierson Emmet. After a trip to Europe in 1876-1877, she became one William Merritt Chase's first pupils at his Tenth Street Studio in New York City. In 1884, she again traveled to Europe, where she studied with Tony Robert-Fleury at the Academie Julian. After she returned to New York City, she married Arthur Sherwood in 1887 and had five children. However, she continued working as an artist and often used her family as her subjects. In a painting, FAMILY AT CHRISTMAS, she depicted all members of her family including her son Robert Emmet Sherwood, who became a prize-winning playwright. Some of her earliest works are illustrations including ones for Harper's magazine. She also was a prize-winning card designer for Louis Prang and Company. In 1881, she painted in the Rocky Mountains during a westward trip. In 1893, she was commissioned to paint a mural for the Woman's Building at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago and created a six-figure allegorical composition, THE REPUBLIC'S WELCOME TO HER DAUGHTERS. In 1922, Sherwood took a trip around the world and completed numerous landscape in watercolor. Most of her work is in her family's collections, but her portrait of Archer Huntington is in the Hispanic Society of New York.
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Rosina Emmet Sherwood (1854 - 1948) American
Pastel on Paper
Measure 25"in H x 17"in W and 32 1/2"in H x 24 1/2"in W with frame
Known for: Genre, child portrait and interior scene painting
Name variants: Rosina Emmet
Biography: In March, 1993 the Emmet Family of Women Artists was the subject of an exhibition held at the Borghi & Company Gallery in New York City and featured in the New Yorker's "Talk of the Town" column with this verbiage: "The first of the Emmet women to become an artist was Ellen II's great-great-grandmother, Elizabeth Emmet Le Roy. Other Emmet artists include: Jilia Colt Pierson Emmet; Rosina Emmet Sherwood; Lydia Field Emmet; Jane Emmet de Glehn; Ellen Emmet Rand; and Edith Leslie Emmet. Only the last is missing from the current show. Ellen II lives in Brooklyn and runs a catering business" Her family home was Woodland House in upper New York State, and likely her earliest art lessons came from her mother, Julia Pierson Emmet. After a trip to Europe in 1876-1877, she became one William Merritt Chase's first pupils at his Tenth Street Studio in New York City. In 1884, she again traveled to Europe, where she studied with Tony Robert-Fleury at the Academie Julian. After she returned to New York City, she married Arthur Sherwood in 1887 and had five children. However, she continued working as an artist and often used her family as her subjects. In a painting, FAMILY AT CHRISTMAS, she depicted all members of her family including her son Robert Emmet Sherwood, who became a prize-winning playwright. Some of her earliest works are illustrations including ones for Harper's magazine. She also was a prize-winning card designer for Louis Prang and Company. In 1881, she painted in the Rocky Mountains during a westward trip. In 1893, she was commissioned to paint a mural for the Woman's Building at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago and created a six-figure allegorical composition, THE REPUBLIC'S WELCOME TO HER DAUGHTERS. In 1922, Sherwood took a trip around the world and completed numerous landscape in watercolor. Most of her work is in her family's collections, but her portrait of Archer Huntington is in the Hispanic Society of New York.
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