Margaret Foster Richardson

Margaret Foster Richardson (December 19, 1881 – 1945) was an American painter known for her self-portraiture.^[1]^[2] Richardson is best known for her 1912 painting, Self-Portrait, A Motion Picture.^[3]

Early life and education[edit]

Richardson was born in Winnetka, Illinois.^[4] She moved to Boston as a youth, where she studied art at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts.^[1] She graduated from the Normal Art School in 1905, where she studied under Joseph DeCamp and Edmund C. Tarbell.^[1]

Career[edit]

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.^[1]

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."^[5] Another scholar remarked that the portrait "effaces many of the contemporary markers of femininity" to portray a more modern New Woman.^[6]

References[edit]

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Leonard, John W. (1914). Woman's Who's who of America: A Biographical Dictionary of Contemporary Women of the United States and Canada, 1914-1915. American commonwealth Company.
^ Baker, Kenneth (24 April 1987). "ART - U.S. Women's Museum - How Relevant?". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved 23 March 2016.
^ Ollman, Leah (16 December 1987). "Inaugural Show by Washington Organization Women and the Arts Museum Tests Its Premise in Exhibit". Los Angeles Times. No. 5. ProQuest 292734583.
^ Jules Heller and Nancy G. Heller, eds., North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century: A Biographical Dictionary (Routledge 2013): 2465. ISBN 9781135638894
^ Temin, Christine (19 August 2001). "Putting Boston Women Artists in Their Place at the MFA". Boston Globe. No. L.6. ProQuest 405409218.
^ Ellen Wiley Todd, The "New Woman" Revised: Painting and Gender Politics on Fourteenth Street (University of California Press 1993): 15-17. ISBN 9780520074712

External links[edit]

Women in the Act of Painting posted by Nancy Bea Miller

[Leonard-1] Leonard, John W. (1914). Woman's Who's who of America: A Biographical Dictionary of Contemporary Women of the United States and Canada, 1914-1915. American commonwealth Company.

[SF_Chronicle-2] Baker, Kenneth (24 April 1987). "ART - U.S. Women's Museum - How Relevant?". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved 23 March 2016.

[LA_Times-3] Ollman, Leah (16 December 1987). "Inaugural Show by Washington Organization Women and the Arts Museum Tests Its Premise in Exhibit". Los Angeles Times. No. 5. ProQuest 292734583.

[4] Jules Heller and Nancy G. Heller, eds., North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century: A Biographical Dictionary (Routledge 2013): 2465. ISBN 9781135638894

[Boston_Globe-5] Temin, Christine (19 August 2001). "Putting Boston Women Artists in Their Place at the MFA". Boston Globe. No. L.6. ProQuest 405409218.

[6] Ellen Wiley Todd, The "New Woman" Revised: Painting and Gender Politics on Fourteenth Street (University of California Press 1993): 15-17. ISBN 9780520074712

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