Английская Википедия:Emily Muir

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Emily Muir (February 10, 1904 – March 19, 2003) was an American painter, architect and philanthropist. After attending Vassar College and the Art Students League of New York, she and her husband moved to Maine in 1939. Mostly known as a portrait painter, Muir painted the official portrait of Senator Margaret Chase Smith for the Maine State House, but early in her career, she and her husband toured throughout Europe and South America painting dioramas for a steamship company. Her watercolor painting, Orchard Street, is part of the permanent collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum and she has works in the permanent collections of the Brooklyn Museum, the Farnsworth Art Museum and the Portland Museum of Art. Self-taught as an architect, Muir designed over 45 homes in or around Crockett Cove near Stonington, Maine. As a philanthropist, she was involved in finding a permanent home for the Haystack Mountain School of Crafts in Deer Isle and donated the Crockett Cove Woods Preserve and Wreck Island to The Nature Conservancy.

Early life

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Orchard Street (1940), watercolor painting for the Section of Painting and Sculpture

Emily Stewart Lansingh was born on February 10, 1904, in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, to Marian Lore (née Minor) and Van Rensselaer Lansingh.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn By her first birthday, her family had moved back to New York, where her father originated and where he worked as lighting engineer first in YonkersШаблон:Sfn and later in Brooklyn.Шаблон:Sfn She began studying art in high school and after graduating attended one year at Vassar College, before entering the Art Students League of New York,Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn where she studied with Richard Lahey and Leo Lentelli.Шаблон:Sfn During her time at the Art League, she met William H. Muir, who would become a nationally known sculptorШаблон:Sfn and whom she married in 1928.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn

Career

Muir began her career as a portraitistШаблон:Sfn and the couple often worked together. Early in their careers, they traveled throughout Europe and Latin America designing dioramas for a cruise line company, the Moore-McCormick steamship line.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn Her parents bought 85 acres of land at Deer Isle, Maine, and asked Muir to design a home for them there. Without any official training in architecture, she designed Mainstay, which was built by Pop Joyce, a local builder. Liking the area, in 1939, they moved to Stonington, Maine, and built a studio and their own home there in the 1940s.Шаблон:Sfn Later, they exhibitedШаблон:Sfn and toured together giving art classes on the Lyceum Circuit throughout the east coast.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:SfnШаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn Muir primarily worked in oils, but occasionally produced sculpture, and many works in watercolor.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn In her later career, she produced many landscapes and views of the Maine coastline, reflecting her own interpretation of cubism, using space and light to create the faceting effects.Шаблон:Sfn Two of her most known works are a watercolor, Orchard Street, in the permanent collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum and an official portrait of Senator Margaret Chase Smith which was painted for the Maine State House and is now in the private collection of Senator Smith.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn

Muir's connection with Senator Smith garnered her an appointment to the United States Commission of Fine Arts in 1955.Шаблон:Sfn She served on the board through 1959,Шаблон:Sfn simultaneously serving as a trustee at the Portland Museum of Fine Art.Шаблон:Sfn That same year, her husband, who was a trustee of the Haystack Mountain School of Crafts,Шаблон:Sfn which at the time was located in Lincoln, Maine, and had no permanent location, suggested the school move to the Stonington area.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn Muir helped them locate property and reestablish the school in Deer Isle.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn Searching for the school property, she discovered a lot on Crockett Cove and decided to buy it and build a house on it, starting a second career in architecture. She eventually designed 46 homes in the Stonington/Deer Isle area, focusing on building modern structures which worked as showcases for the landscape, rather than the dwelling.Шаблон:Sfn Her sensitivity to environmental concerns were recognized by a Design International awardШаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn and she was given an honorary doctorate by the University of Maine in 1969.Шаблон:Sfn

Care of the environment was a primary concern for Muir, and when a friend asked her what she planned to do with the three islands she owned, Muir decided to donate the properties to The Nature Conservancy as a means of preserving themШаблон:Sfn and preventing overdevelopment.Шаблон:Sfn In 1970, she sold Russ IslandШаблон:Sfn discounting the price, to the Island Institute. In 1975, she donated nearly 100 acres of woods to the Conservancy, now known as the Crocket Cove Woods Preserve, and donated Wreck Island to the organization, which in turn deeded the property to the Island Heritage Trust.Шаблон:Sfn The Island Institute founded the Emily and Willam Muir Fund to develop programs to preserve the area, provide educational opportunities, and spur community growth.Шаблон:Sfn

Death and legacy

Muir died on March 19, 2003, in Stonington, Maine.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn In addition to the piece at the Smithsonian, Muir has artworks in the collections of the Brooklyn Museum, the Farnsworth Art Museum, and the Portland Museum of Art.Шаблон:Sfn Muir also published two books, Small Potatoes (1940)Шаблон:Sfn and The Time of My Life (2002), her autobiography.Шаблон:Sfn Her papers, as well as those of her husband, form part of the collection of the Archives of American Art and the Smithsonian.Шаблон:Sfn

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