Elizabeth Nourse

Elizabeth Nourse ( born October 26, 1859 in Cincinnati, Ohio; † October 8, 1938 in Paris) was an American painter, sculptor and designer.

Biography

Elizabeth and her identical twin sister Adelaide were the youngest of ten children of the Catholic couple, Caleb Elijah Nourse and his wife Elizabeth LeBreton Rogers. As a 15 -year-old, she attended the National Association of Schools of Art and Design in Cincinnati; and was one of the first women in the oil and watercolor painting studied. After her studies, she was offered a teaching position in 1881 at the school, but the Nourse refused. In 1882, she was able to go through the support of a patron of the arts to New York.

But after the death of their parents (1883 ), she returned to Cincinnati and worked as a decorator and portrait painter. At the instigation of her elder sister Elizabeth Nourse traveled to Paris in 1887 to increase at the prestigious Académie Julian under the famous French painters Gustave Boulanger and Jules -Joseph Lefebvre lessons. A year later, she opened her own studio and had several exhibitions. In 1920 Elizabeth Nourse ill with breast cancer and underwent successful surgery on it. In 1937 doctors again with cancer finds what she died in Paris on 8 October 1938.