Lucia Fairchild Fuller

Lucia Fairchild Fuller (6 December 1872 – 20 May 1924) was an American painter. She was known for her miniatures.

Lucia Fairchild Fuller
self-portrait
Born	Lucia Fairchild (1872-12-06)December 6, 1872 Boston, Massachusetts
Died	May 20, 1924(1924-05-20) (aged 51) Madison, Wisconsin
Nationality	American
Education	Cowles Art School, Art Students League
Known for	Painting
Spouse(s)	Henry Brown Fuller ( m. 1893)

Life and career

Fuller was born in Boston, Massachusetts, the daughter of Elisabeth A. (née Nelson) and Charles Fairchild.[1][2] Her paternal grandfather was Jairus C. Fairchild, the first Mayor of Madison, Wisconsin, and her uncle was Lucius Fairchild, Governor of Wisconsin; her brother was the composer Blair Fairchild.

She was educated at Shaw's Private School, the Cowles Art School under Dennis Miller Bunker, and at the Art Students League, New York, under William Merritt Chase and Henry Siddons Mowbray.[2]

She began painting professionally in 1889, and produced chiefly miniatures. She was awarded a bronze medal at the Paris Exposition of 1900, a silver medal at Buffalo in 1901 and a gold medal at the Saint Louis Exposition of 1904.[3][4] Fuller founded the American Society of Miniature Painters.[5] However, she didn't limit herself to small scale work. Fuller exhibited her work at the Palace of Fine Arts and her mural Women of Plymouth in The Woman's Building at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois.[5][6] She was also a member of the New York Water Color Club.[3]

In 1893 she married Henry Brown Fuller, a fellow artist.[2] They were both active in the Cornish, New Hampshire, arts colony. Fuller also taught; among her pupils was Elsie Motz Lowdon.[7]

Fuller died in Madison, Wisconsin from multiple sclerosis in 1924.[4]

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  By a Clear Fountain (1907)
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  The Women of Plymouth (1893), mural in the Woman's Building, 1893 World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, Illinois

See also

• Fairchild family

References

1. Wallace, Natasha (1 August 2010). "Portrait of Elizabeth Nelson Fairchild, 1887". John Singer Sargent Virtual Gallery. Retrieved 6 November 2012.
2. "Madison Artist Doubly Famous". Wisconsin State Journal. May 25, 1924. p. 6. Retrieved March 13, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
3. "Fuller, Lucia Fairchild". The Encyclopedia Americana. Retrieved 11 August 2018.
4. "Lucia Fairchild Fuller". Smithsonian American Art Museum. Retrieved 11 August 2018.
5. Nichols, K. L. "Women's Art at the World's Columbian Fair & Exposition, Chicago 1893". Retrieved 10 August 2018.
6. Rubinstein, Charlotte (1982). American Women Artists from early Indian times to the present day. Boston, Massachusetts: G.K Hall & Co. p. 128. ISBN 0-8161-8535-2.
7. Paula L. Grauer; Michael R. Grauer (1999). Dictionary of Texas Artists, 1800-1945. Texas A&M University Press. pp. 59–. ISBN 978-0-89096-861-1.

External links

• This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: "Fuller, Lucia Fairchild" . Encyclopedia Americana. 1920.
• Lucia Fairchild Fuller at Find a Grave
• "Lucia Fairchild Fuller". Ask Art. Retrieved 27 April 2012.