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| Anna Field, painter, teacher and woodcarver, was born in Berwick,
Illinois. She married William Cameron and as an adult lived in
Chester, Nebraska in Thayer County. In addition to being a
teacher, she was a designer and artist in oil, watercolor and
woodcarving.
Her Electrolier (Electric Chandelier) art was exhibited in 1893 at the World’s Columbian Exposition held at Chicago in the Woman’s Building.
The Omaha Public Library owns a pedestal and candelabra from the George
Washington Lininger Estate. Both pieces were part of the Lininger
Art Gallery, Omaha, Nebraska, which opened in November of 1888.
Sources include:
Trumbull White and William Igleheart, The Columbian Exposition 1893 (J. W. Ziegler & Company, Philadelphia and St. Louis, 1893) 452.
Clarissa Bucklin, Nebraska Art and Artists (The School of Fine Arts of The University of Nebraska, Lincoln, 1932) 15
Copyright ã November 2005 Janet Gwendolyn Smith
Submitted by Janet G. Smith, art consultant, art historian, art authenticator and independent curator, www.jgsart.com. |
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