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Mountain View with Breaking Sun
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This biography from the Archives of AskART:
|  The following information and clarification comes from Dr. Scott Routenberg whose main sources are the archives of the New York Times including the artist's obituary:
The artist died on June 12, 1923 in Brooklyn, New York and the obituary states that she was 87 at the time. Her first name has been incorrectly cited for some time now. Her name was actually Susie M. Barstow. Quote: "Susie M. Barstow was a daughter of Samuel Barstow, old-time tea merchant in [New York]. After studying here and in Europe she became known as both painter and art teacher." (Obituary, New York Times, June 13, 1923)
Susie M. Barstow was, in her day, most often cited in exhibitions as "Miss SM Barstow", a note of interest for the modern collector and/or scholar. She also signed her paintings "SM Barstow." She graduated from Rutgers' Female Institute in New York in 1853 (the first college for women in New York). Barstow was both a secretary and teacher at the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences until at least 1910. She exhibited at the National Academy of Design starting in 1858, not 1861a s often cited.
Barstow was in the acclaimed American Art Collection of Thomas B. Clarke; Clarke acquired her painting A Bit of Catskill Woods between 1872 and 1879. (Source: "Thomas B. Clarke: Foremost Patron of American Art from 1872 to 1899" -H. Barbara Weinberg)
She was the aunt of botanical artist, illustrator and author Susie Barstow Skelding (1857-) and San Diego artist Mary Barstow Pitt (1867-1940). In 1898, S.M. Barstow and her niece Susie Barstow Skelding traveled to Intervale, New Hampshire together to sketch Mount Washington. Miss S.M. Barstow also made frequent trips to Sebago and Camden, Maine to both live and sketch in the mountains. (Brooklyn Daily Eagle Archives including the assessment of S.M. Barstow's estate in 1923, which details the living members of her family).
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Biography from R.H. Love Galleries:
| Sarah Barstow was a prolific New York woman painter, active in the last
half of the nineteenth century. She showed her landscapes early
on at the National Academy of Design (1861-91) and in the Pennsylvania
Academy annuals (1867-69), but apparently she was centered in Brooklyn
where she exhibited over 75 works at the Brooklyn Art Association
between 1877 and 1886.
In the earliest part of her career, she exhibited both still-life and
landscape paintings, and then she turned almost exclusively to
landscape, seeking out mountainous regions in the Northeast, such as
the Catskills, the Adirondacks, and the White Mountains. Trips to
Europe are indicated: Switzerland in 1865 and 1878, Germany, Holland
and Belgium in 1881, and France in 1885.
Source:
Richard H. Love and Michael Preston Worley, Ph.D., Reflections of Reality: American Paintings from the Collection of John and Susan Hainsworth, 2005, p. 6
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