A pioneer female artist in a world basically reserved for men, she was an independent, dedicated professional woman in early 20th-century California. After her death, her reputation diminished, but the quality of her landscapes, interiors, figures, and murals has been rediscovered in the second half of the century.
She was born in Sausalito, across the Bay north from San Francisco to a Scottish father, William Ranken Fortune, and a mother, Helen Hersberg, who was a native of San Fra (showing 500 of 12965 characters). |
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E. Fortune is also mentioned in these AskART essays:
The California Art Club
San Francisco Panama-Pacific Exhibition 1915
California Painters
Women Artists
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