Sarah Choate Sears

Sarah Choate Sears Carlisle ( born May 5, 1858 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, † September 25, 1935 in Gouldsboro, Maine ) was an American photographer, painter, art collector and patron -.

Life

Sarah Carlisle Choate was the daughter of Charles Francis and Elizabeth Carlisle Choate. Her family belonged to the so-called " Boston Brahmins ". From 1876 she studied painting in Boston at the Cowles Art School and Art History at the Museum of Fine Arts. 1877 she married the landowner Joshua Montgomery Sears, one of the wealthiest men at the time of Boston. The marriage enabled her a carefree life, so that they could devote exclusively to their own interests themselves.

She finished her art studies and became a successful Aquarellistin, which won numerous awards. She exhibited among others at the World 's Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893, at the World Exhibition in Paris in 1900, the Pan - American Exposition in Buffalo in 1901, and at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis in 1904.

In 1890 she discovered photography and turned immediately in photographic salons she was aus.1892 member of Boston Camera Club, where Fred Holland Day was attentive to their still life and portrait studies. Around 1900 Sears friend of the American Impressionist Mary Cassatt, at the same time she was admitted to the elite Brotherhood of the Linked Ring in London and Alfred Stieglitz's Photo-Secession in New York.

With her ​​husband's illness from 1904 Sears interrupted her artistic activities. After his death the following year she devoted herself to family businesses. In the next few years they toured together with Gertrude Stein Cassatt and Europe, where she cultivated a glamorous lifestyle as an art collector and surrounded himself with numerous artists, musicians and writers. Notably, she collected works of Edgar Degas and Édouard Manet. Your collection they donated later to the Boston Museum of Fine Arts.

At the suggestion of Alfred Stieglitz also collected works by Georges Braque, Paul Cézanne, Arthur B. Davies, Henri Matisse and Maurice Prendergast. For Prendergast, she developed a special liking, so they enabled the artist to exhibitions in Boston and funded him on a study trip to Europe.

1907 two photographs of Sarah Choate Sears in Alfred Stieglitz's Photo magazine Camera Work published: Mary (1907 ) and Mrs. Julia Ward Howe ( Camera Work # 18). At this time, however, she had already lost most of her interest in photography. She photographed only rarely in later years and devoted himself instead of watercolor painting.

Sarah Choate Sears died on 25 September 1935 in West Gouldsboro, Maine.

Photographic work

Young woman with lily about 1892

Ramona 1893

John Singer Sargent 1895

Mrs. Julia Ward Howe 1907 (published in Camera Work number 18)

Mary 1907 (published in Camera Work number 18)