Mary Ellen Sigsbee
Mary Ellen Sigsbee | |
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| Born | New Orleans, Louisiana, United States |
| Died | Woodstock, New York, United States |
Mary Ellen Sigsbee (1876–1960) was an American artist and magazine illustrator.
Early life
Sigsby was born in New Orleans,[1] on February 26, 1876,[2] one of four daughters of Charles D. Sigsbee, captain of the USS Maine during the Spanish–American War.[3][4]
Career
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Sigsbee studied at the Arts Students League.[5] One of her paintings was exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1908 - a feat achieved by few American women.[5] A feminist and suffragist, Sisgbee designed posters for the American Woman Suffrage Association.[5][1] One of which, What breaks up the home? What will save the home? Votes for Women (circa 1917), is in the privately held Ann Lewis Women's Suffrage Collection.[6] From 1909 to 1917, and from 1930 to 1932, she made illustrations for the Evening Journal.[5][7] Her painting The Christmas Peek was used as the Christmas 1934 cover of the Saturday Evening Post.[7] She also produced work for Harper's Magazine.[8] A copy of her print The New Hand is in the National Child Labor Committee Collection of the United States Library of Congress.[9]
Personal life
Sigsbee was married twice. Her first marriage was to William Balfour Ker,[7] a fellow artist and socialist. The marriage was conducted against her father's wishes, after an 1898 elopement.[3] They first lived in Greenwich Village, but after a period working in Paris, the marriage failed[3] and they divorced in 1910.[7] They had a son, David (1906–1922).[10] In 1912 she married the magazine illustrator Anton Otto Fischer.[5][10] They first lived in Bushnellsville, New York before moving to a house near the intersection of Elmendorf Street and Ten Broeck Avenue in nearby Kingston (the house still stands). They had a daughter, Katrina Sigsbee Fischer (1914–1998). The family eventually settled into a house off Glasco Turnpike in Woodstock, New York just prior to World War II.[11] Sigsbee and both husbands were former students of illustrator Howard Pyle.[10] Her son David was adopted by Fischer.[10] During her marriages she used the names Sigsbee Ker and Sigsbee Fischer.[5] Sigsbee died in 1960, at Woodstock.[1][4]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Mary Ellen Sigsbee". Spartacus Educational. Retrieved 22 June 2019.
- ↑ "Fischer, Mary Ellen Sigsbee". Benezit Dictionary of Artists. 2011. doi:10.1093/benz/9780199773787.article.b00064725. Retrieved 22 June 2019.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 "William Balfour Ker - Artist Biography for William Balfour Ker". Ask Art. Retrieved 21 June 2019.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Mary Ellen Sigsbee (Ker) Fischer - Artist, Fine Art Prices, Auction Records for Mary Ellen Sigsbee (Ker) Fischer". Ask Art. Retrieved 22 June 2019.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 "Artist Biography for Mary Ellen Sigsbee (Ker) Fischer". Ask Art. Retrieved 28 June 2019.
- ↑ "Poster : What breaks up the home? What will save the home? Votes for Women. [Circa 1917]". Ann Lewis Women's Suffrage Collection. Retrieved 22 June 2019.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 "Ker, William Balfour". schoonoverstudios.com. Retrieved 14 April 2022.
- ↑ "Mary Ellen Sigsbee". Harper's Magazine. Retrieved 22 June 2019.
- ↑ "The new hand / Mary Ellen Sigsbee". Library of Congress. Washington, D.C. Retrieved 22 June 2019.
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 10.3 "Anton Otto Fischer". Illustration History. Norman Rockwell Museum. Retrieved 20 June 2019.
- ↑ Andre Mele lecture on his great-uncle, Anton Otto Fischer, September 24, 2011 on YouTube, September 24, 2011
External links
- Saturday Evening Post page including The Christmas Peek cover
- Mary Ellen Sigsbee at Find a Grave
- 1876 births
- 1960 deaths
- American magazine illustrators
- 20th-century American painters
- People from New Orleans
- American suffragists
- American feminist artists
- Artists from Manhattan
- People from Greenwich Village
- People from Woodstock, New York
- American women illustrators
- Artists from New York (state)
- Art Students League of New York alumni
- 20th-century American women artists
- Burials at Montrepose Cemetery
- American Woman Suffrage Association activists