 Jessie Bear is primarily known as Jesse Henderson Drew-Bear
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This biography from the Archives of AskART:
|  Born in England, Jessie Drew-Bear was a painter in primitive style of florals, marine plants, and animals. A young widow with three children, she settled in Philadelphia in the 1920s, and soon became the owner of a floral business, the London Shop, which became one of the better known establishments of its kind.
Around the age of sixty, she was given a paint box as a present from her daughter, and started painting the flowers in her shop. With some encouragement and guidance of her artist friend Arthur Carles, Drew-Bear created remarkable works.
In 1953, she purchased an old stone house in New Hope, Pennsylvania, where she set up a studio, and her brightly colored paintings of flowers and landscapes where well-received. Later in life, she took up underwater diving and began creating paintings of underwater marine life.
She exhibited her works at the Phillips Mill, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (1940s), the Corcoran Gallery of Art (1943), the Da Vinci Art Alliance, the Avery Memorial Museum in Hartford, Connecticut, and others.
Sources:
Alterman, James. New Hope for American Art
Peter Hastings Falk (editor), Who Was Who in American Art |
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