Cornelia_F._Maury

Cornelia F. Maury

Cornelia F. Maury

American painter

Cornelia Field Maury (1866–1942) was an American artist, known for her portraits of children. Maury often worked in pastels.[1] She was based in St. Louis, Missouri.

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About

Cornelia Field Maury was born in New Orleans, Louisiana in 1866.[2] Her family had owned a theatre in St. Louis, Missouri.[3] She studied at the St. Louis School of Fine Arts (a part of Washington University in St. Louis) and the Académie Julian in Paris.[2] She studied in France with Jules Joseph Lefebvre, Raphaël Collin, Benjamin Constant, Jean-Paul Laurens, Luc-Olivier Merson, and Jules Dupré.[4][1]

She was a member of St. Louis Artists' Guild and Society of Western Artists.[1] In 1899, Maury was exhibiting her work at the St. Louis Artists' Guild.[5] Her work "Mother and Child" was hung in 1900 at the Salon des Artistes Francais.[1]

She lived in St. Louis in her family home, the historical Guion House (also referred to as the Maury House) at 5815 Pennsylvania Ave in the Carondelet neighborhood.[6][7]

Death and legacy

She died in 1942,[6][8] in Saint Louis, Missouri. However her year of death has been incorrectly attributed with many other dates, and as early as 1934.[9]

Her work is in many public museum collections including Smithsonian American Art Museum,[9] among others.

References

  1. [1]
    Erskine, Clara; Waters, Clement (1984). Women in the Fine Arts, from the Seventh Century B.C. to the Twentieth. Vol. 1 of Library of Alexandria. Library of Alexandria. ISBN 9781465583321.
  2. [2]
    American Art Annual. Vol. 14. American Federation of Arts. MacMillan Company. 1918. p. 552.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  3. [3]
    "Ludlow-Field-Maury Family Papers, 1784; 1817-1945". The Missouri Historical Society. Retrieved 2020-05-14.
  4. [4]
    American Art Annual. Vol. 1. American Federation of Arts. MacMillan Company. 1899. p. 466.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  5. [5]
    "Museum, School and Exhibition Notes". Brush and Pencil. 3 (4): 244–248. 1899. ISSN 1932-7080. JSTOR 25505357.
  6. [6]
    "Old St Louis Houses: The Guion House". The St. Louis Star and Times. 1943-05-12. p. 11. Retrieved 2020-05-14.
  7. [7]
    "Maury House, Saint Louis, Independent City, MO". Library of Congress. Retrieved 2020-05-14.
  8. [8]
    "Obituary search". St. Louis Public Library. St. Louis Post-Dispatch Obituary Index, 1880-2009.
  9. [9]
    "Cornelia F. Maury". Smithsonian American Art Museum. Retrieved 2020-05-14.
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