peoplepill id: caroline-amelia-powell
CAP
United States of America
5 views today
5 views this week
Caroline Amelia Powell
Irish-born American engraver and illustrator (1852-1935)

Caroline Amelia Powell

The basics

Quick Facts

Intro
Irish-born American engraver and illustrator (1852-1935)
Work field
Gender
Female
Birth
Place of birth
Dublin, Ireland
Death
Place of death
Boston, United States of America
Age
83 years
The details (from wikipedia)

Biography

Caroline Amelia Powell (1852-1935) was an Irish-born American engraver and illustrator. She was the first woman tobecome a member of the Society of American Wood Engravers.

Portrait of Major-General O. O. Howard by Caroline A. Powell

Biography

Powell was born in 1852 in Dublin, Ireland. She studied at Cooper Union and the National Academy of Design, both located in New York City. Her teachers included the engravers William James Linton and Timothy Cole.

Around 1880 Powell's work began appearing in magazines such as The Century Magazine and Scribner's Monthly.

Powellexhibited her work in the Woman's Building at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois. She alsoexhibited at the 1901 Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York.

Powell's wood engravings reproduced art work by her contemporaries including Fritz von Uhde, Abbott H. Thayer, John La Farge, and James Abbott McNeill Whistler. She became the first woman admitted to the Society of American Wood Engravers. As the art of wood engraving fell from use, Powell worked using the halftone process. She worked for 18 years at the Riverside Press, now Riverside Publishing in Cambridge.

Powell died in 1935 in Boston, Massachusetts.

The contents of this page are sourced from Wikipedia article. The contents are available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license.
Lists
Caroline Amelia Powell is in following lists
comments so far.
Comments
From our partners
Sponsored
Credits
References and sources
Caroline Amelia Powell
arrow-left arrow-right instagram whatsapp myspace quora soundcloud spotify tumblr vk website youtube pandora tunein iheart itunes