藝術家Fidelia BRIDGES (1834-1923) 生平簡歷

出生地： Salem, MA

死亡地点： Canaan, CT

地址： Canaan, CT

职业： Landscape, marine, nature painter, illustrator

教育： William Trost Richards, Phila., 1860; Rome, 1867 (traveled and shared a studio with Anne Whitney)

展出： PAFA, 1862-1905; NAD, 1863-95; Brooklyn AA, 1863-85; AWCS; Boston AC, 1874-75, 1886; AIC, 1889-1913 (watercolor annuals); Phila. Centennial Expo., 1876; Fifth Avenue Gal, NYC, 1879; RA and Dudley Gal., London, 1879-80; Pan-American Expo., Buffalo, 1901; St. Louis (Louisiana Purchase) Expo., 1904

会员： ANA, 1874; AWCS,1875

工作： Munson-Williams-Proctor Inst., Utica, NY (Milkweeds", 1861); NMAA; National Mus. of Women in the Arts, Wash., DC; New Britain (CT) Mus. of American Art; Louise and Alan Sellars Collection of Art by American Women"

评论： Bridges specialized in detailed close-up glimpses of landscapes, usually with birds and wildflowers, painted in the spirit of the English Pre-Raphaelites. She painted in oils, but most of her works appear to be in watercolor and gouache. When her father, a shipmaster in the China trade, died in 1849 and her mother soon after, she became a governess in the Quaker household of the Brown family. In Brooklyn, in 1854, she befriended Anne Whitney (see entry), who encouraged her to study painting with William Trost Richards in Philadelphia (where she lived from 1860-63). In 1863, she returned to Brooklyn; in 1867, she studied in Rome, and upon her return in 1868 established a studio in NYC. She continued to reside in Philadelphia, and beginning in 1871 spent summers in Stratford, CT. In 1875, she became associated with Louis Prang, the chromolithographer, who bought a series of her paintings for use in illustrating calendars. She worked steadily for Prang from 1881-99, primarily designing greeting cards. Bridges also provided illustrations for Scribner's Monthly (August, 1876) and books, including Familiar Birds and What Poets Sing of Them (1886). In 1892, Bridges retired to Canaan, CT.

来源： G&W; WW13; CAB; Who's Who in America, 1922-23 and 1924-25; Randall, Conn. Artists and Their Work," 583-88 with 7 repros.; Belknap, Artists and Craftsmen of Essex County; Art Annual, XXI; Naylor, NAD; Rutledge, PA; Falk, PA (vol. 2); Graves, Dictionary. More recently, see Mary Brawley Hill, Fidelia Bridges, American Pre-Raphaelite (New Britain Museum of American Art, 1981); Rubinstein, American Women Artists, 61-62; Petteys, Dictionary of Women Artists, 95; Tufts, American Women Artists, 1830-1930, cat. no. 38 (repro.); For Beauty and for Truth, 36 "