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An example of work by Clara Weaver Parrish
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This biography from the Archives of AskART:
| A landscape and figure painter and stained-glass designer, Clara Parrish was born and raised on her family's plantation outside of Selma, Alabama. In the early 1880s, she went to New York City to study at the Art Students League with William Merritt Chase, W. Siddons Mowbray, Kenyon Cox, and J. Alden Weir.
She spent much time in Paris, maintaining studios there and in New York, and in Paris she attended the Academy Colarossi as a student of Gustav Courtois, and also studied privately with Alphonse Mucha and Raphael Collin.
In 1887, she married William Parrish, a stock broker, and they lived in New York City. Two years later they had a daughter who lived only 16 months, and in 1901, her husband died.
In the 1890s she began working for Louis Comfort Tiffany as a stain-glass window designer. Among her designs were the windows for St. Michael's Episcopal Church in New York City and at least one mosaic mural for Alabama churches.
She exhibited widely including the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, the 1915 Panama-Pacific Exposition in San Francisco, the Royal Academy in London and the Paris Salon. She was a member of the New York Watercolor Club and the National Association of Women Painters and Sculptors.
Source:
North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century by Jules and Nancy Heller. | |
Biography from Charleston Renaissance Gallery:
| CLARA WEAVER PARRISH (1861-1925)
Born near Selma, Alabama, into a family that included woodcarvers and writers, Clara Weaver Parrish showed a youthful interest in art. In the early 1880s, with the encouragement of her parents, she enrolled at the Art Students League in New York City. After studying under William Merritt Chase, H. Siddons Mowbray, J. Alden Weir and Kenyon Cox, she married William Parrish, a stockbroker, and settled permanently in New York.
In the 1890s Parrish designed stained glass windows for Louis Comfort Tiffany, while also achieving a reputation as a painter. She exhibited landscapes and figurative works at the Art Institute of Chicago from 1894 until 1919, and at the National Academy of Design from 1903 until 1920, and participated in most of the major exhibitions, including the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago, the Paris Exposition of 1900, the Appalachian Exposition in Knoxville in 1910, and the 1915 Panama-Pacific Exposition in San Francisco. Parrish regularly returned to her native Alabama, lecturing to various groups on the importance of art museums, and painting the local scenery. In 1925, while making plans to return to teach and found an art museum, she was taken ill and died.
Parrish’s experience in the Tiffany studios was the chief influence on her style. Her landscapes are typically rendered in jewel-like tones, with heavy emphasis on aquamarine, one of Tiffany’s favorite colors. With their luminous surfaces and poetic mood, they take on the look of stained glass, an effect that was evident to a certain extent in all of Parrish’s mature work. (NRS)
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San Francisco Panama-Pacific Exhibition 1915
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