Margaret Foster Richardson
Illustration — Margaret Foster Richardson: A Motion Picture, self-portrait (1912) Margaret Foster Richardson (December 19, 1881 – 1945) was an American painter known for her self-portraiture. Richardson is best known for her 1912 painting, Self-Portrait, A Motion Picture.
Margaret Foster Richardson
Margaret Foster Richardson (American, 1881 - 1945) · Public domain
- Born
- 1881 · Winnetka.
- Died
- 1945 · Boston.
- Occupation
- painter · artist
- Fields
- portrait
- Education
- School of the Museum of Fine Arts · Massachusetts College of Art and Design
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Early life and education
Margaret Foster Richardson studied at School of the Museum of Fine Arts and Massachusetts College of Art and Design. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are portrait. Work by Margaret Foster Richardson is recorded in the collections of Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.
Richardson was born in Winnetka, Illinois. She moved to Boston as a youth, where she studied art at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts. She graduated from the Normal Art School in 1905, where she studied under Joseph DeCamp and Edmund C. Tarbell.
Career
Career
Richardson exhibited art at Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia, the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., the National Academy of Design in New York City, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh. In Richardson's Self-Portrait, A Motion Picture, she painted herself in action, prepared to paint. As one critic observed, "She's striding forward at full tilt, brushes in both hands, looking as if she can't wait to attack the canvas. Her expression is one of gusto and almost missionary zeal. Hers is a self- portrait you might back away from." Another scholar remarked that the portrait "effaces many of the contemporary markers of femininity" to portray a more modern New Woman. Her work is in the National Gallery of Art, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and the Worcester Art Museum.
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- 1.Leonard, John W. Woman's Who's who of America: A Biographical Dictionary of Contemporary Women of the United States and Canada, 1914-1915. American commonwealth Company. 1914.
- 2.Baker, Kenneth. ART - U.S. Women's Museum - How Relevant?. San Francisco Chronicle. 24 April 1987.
- 3.Ollman, Leah. Inaugural Show by Washington Organization Women and the Arts Museum Tests Its Premise in Exhibit. Los Angeles Times. 5. 16 December 1987.
- 4.Jules Heller and Nancy G. Heller, eds., North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century: A Biographical Dictionary (Routledge 2013): 2465.
- 5.Temin, Christine. Putting Boston Women Artists in Their Place at the MFA. Boston Globe. L.6. 19 August 2001.
- 6.Ellen Wiley Todd, The "New Woman" Revised: Painting and Gender Politics on Fourteenth Street (University of California Press 1993): 15-17.
- 7.Margaret Foster Richardson. National Gallery of Art.
- 8.Margaret Foster Richardson, "A Motion Picture" (1912). Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. 28 December 2014.
- 9.Margaret Foster Richardson. Worcester Art Museum.
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