Английская Википедия:Elizabeth Fearne Bonsall

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Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Infobox artist Elizabeth Fearne BonsallШаблон:Efn (September 12, 1861 – September 25, 1956) was an American painter and illustrator. She illustrated The Book of Cats (1903), The Book of Dogs, The Pied Piper of Hamelin (1927), and other books. She created illustrations for Henry Christopher McCook's American Spiders and their Spinningwork. McCook credits her for making most of the illustrations for the volume. Bonsall also created illustrations for magazines. She won several awards for her works between 1885 and 1897.

Bonsall was a student of Howard Pyle and Thomas Eakins and member of The Plastic Club in the United States. In Paris, she studied under Raphaël Collin and Gustave-Claude-Etienne Courtois.

Personal life

Elizabeth Fearne Bonsall was born on September 12, 1861, in Fernwood, Delaware County, Pennsylvania.Шаблон:RШаблон:RШаблон:Efn Her parents were Amos Bonsall and Anna Wagner Bonsall.Шаблон:R Amos was a Navy officer and an explorer on a two-year Arctic Expedition (1853-1855) led by Elisha Kane.Шаблон:RШаблон:R He served for the Union Army during the Civil War and was later the director of homes for children.Шаблон:R Elizabeth's sisters were Ethel, Sarah and Mary.Шаблон:R

During her adulthood, she lived at 3430 Walnut Street, Philadelphia. Bonsall believed in woman's right to vote.Шаблон:R She was a member of the Presbyterian Church.Шаблон:R

Education

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Elizabeth Fearne Bonsall, The labyrinth spider's cocoon string, suspended within the maze above her leaf roofed tent, Henry Christopher McCook's spider atlas, 1893

She studied under Howard Pyle and Thomas Eakins at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts,Шаблон:R beginning on a scholarship in 1894. She studied with Pyle at Drexel Institute by 1897.Шаблон:RШаблон:RpШаблон:Efn Bonsall received the first Toppan Prize in 1885 and won the Mary Smith Prize twice, in 1888 and 1897.Шаблон:R In Paris, she studied at Académie ColarossiШаблон:R and under Gustave-Claude-Etienne Courtois and Raphaël Collin.Шаблон:R

Career

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Elizabeth Fearne Bonsall, The Book of the Cat, 1903, cover illustration

Bonsall taught at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. One of her students was Elizabeth Wentworth Roberts.Шаблон:R

Bonsall specialized in paintings of animals.Шаблон:R She wrote the story Winter at the Zoo, which Bonsall and A. Doring illustrated. It appeared in the November 1892 issue of St. Nicholas Magazine.Шаблон:R Bonsall created illustrations of spiders for Henry Christopher McCook's American Spiders and their Spinningwork: A Natural History of the Orbweaving Spiders of the United States, with Special Regard to their Industry and Habits, which was published in 1893. She drew almost all of the spider plates, according to Cook's preface in the atlas.Шаблон:R

At the 1897 Pittsburgh International Exhibition of Contemporary Painting and Sculpture, Bonsall exhibited Portrait and Hot Milk. She was a member of The Plastic Club.Шаблон:R When its fall exhibition was held in 1898, her work and that of other of Pyle's former students—such as Elizabeth Shippen Green, Jessie Willcox Smith, Charlotte Harding, Violet Oakley, and Angela De Cora—were singled out. A poster of Bonsall's was exhibited in the January 1899 exhibition, and along with works of other club members, gained special attention within the art community.Шаблон:RШаблон:Rp She exhibited at the summer show at the Worcester Art Museum in 1901.Шаблон:R

Bonsall illustrated Mabel Humphrey's The Book of the Cat (1903),Шаблон:R which is a collection of stories of the adventures of cats and kittens.Шаблон:R Of her illustrations, The Book News Monthly wondered if she might be a Rosa Bonheur in the making.Шаблон:R In 1904, The Book of the Dog was published with her full-page colored illustrations of Alice Calhoun Haines' stories and verses.Шаблон:RШаблон:R Her prints of The Cat and The Dog were sold in Life magazine and The Bookseller, Newsdealer and Stationer in 1905. Elizabeth Shippen Green and Jessie Willcox Smith's illustration of The Child was also sold in both publications that year.Шаблон:RШаблон:R Bonsall's illustrations appeared in Harper's Magazine in 1907Шаблон:R and 1908.Шаблон:R She illustrated a book for the School for the Deaf entitled Stories in Prose and Rhyme and Nature Lessons for Little Children that was published in 1912.Шаблон:RШаблон:R The same year, The Cat was published, edited by Agnes Repplier and illustrated by Bonsall.Шаблон:R

Both Elizabeth and Mary Bonsall exhibited at the 1920 exhibition of The Plastic Club.Шаблон:R Elizabeth's works were exhibited during Philadelphia's Artists' Week in April 1922.Шаблон:R

In 1927, she illustrated The Pied Piper of Hamlin, a Children's Story.Шаблон:R The book is the story of the rat-infested town of Hamelin, Germany and the pied piper who lures rodents to the river to drown with the sound of his music.Шаблон:R The Delaware Art Museum states of her illustrations, "Bonsall's vivid brushstroke suggests the frenetic scramble at the sound of the piper."Шаблон:RШаблон:R

Papers about her career, including exhibition catalogs, artist's statements, publications, brochures, and reviews are held at the Smithsonian Libraries.Шаблон:R

Collections

• Chester County History Center, Pennsylvania
  • Amos Bonsall (1830–1915), oil on canvas, circa 1900Шаблон:R
  • Portrait of Anne Heacock Bonsall, oil, 1895Шаблон:R
• Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington
  • The Pied Piper, gouache on paper, illustrationШаблон:R
  • Untitled illustration, gouache on paper, illustration, 1927Шаблон:R
• Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia
  • Hot Milk, Waiting for It to Cool, oil, 1896Шаблон:R

External links

• Шаблон:Internet Archive author