Harriet Campbell Foss, born in Middletown, Connecticut in 1860, signed her paintings "H. Campbell Foss" to avoid any prejudice against women artists. A portrait, genre and still-life painter, Foss was the daughter of a Methodist minister who taught at Wesleyan University in Middletown.
After attending Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts in 1883-1884, she transferred to the Women's School of Design at Cooper Union in New York City when she decided to study art. In another venue there (showing 500 of 1458 characters). |
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