Sara Anne Freeman Clarke

American painter
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IntroAmerican painter
A.K.A.Sarah Anne Freeman Clarke
A.K.A.Sarah Anne Freeman Clarke
PlacesUnited States of America
wasPainter
Work fieldArts
Gender
Female
Birth1808
Death1890 (aged 82 years)
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Biography

Sarah Anne Freeman Clarke (1808-1896) was an American painter with a connection to the Boston Transcendentalist Movement.

Biography

Kentucky Beech Forest c. 1839

Clarke was born in Massachusetts in 1808. Her brother was the Unitarian minister James Freeman Clarke. She was involved in the Transcendentalist Movement.

In 1843 Clarke traveled with her brother James and mutual friend Margaret Fuller to the area of the Great Lakes and the territories of Wisconsin and Illinois. Fuller wrote and Clarke illustrated the journey in the book Summer on the Lakes in 1843.

Clarke exhibited her work at the Woman's Building at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois.

She died in 1896.

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