Josephine lewis biography
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Josephine Miles Lewis
American Impressionist artist
Josephine Miles Lewis (10 March 1865 – 11 May 1959) was an American Impressionist artist. The first student, female or otherwise, to graduate from Yale University with a bachelor's in Fine Arts and the University's second female graduate overall, Lewis was known for her portraits of children.[1]
Early life
[edit]Josephine Miles Lewis was born in 1865 in New Haven, Connecticut. In her childhood and young adulthood her father, Henry Gould Lewis, was the mayor of New Haven for four terms.[2]
Time at Yale
[edit]The Yale School of Art was one of the few at the University open to women as well as men, on the request of donor Augustus Russell Street. As a result, women made up a high percentage of the school's attendees, though Lewis was the first to graduate with a degree from the School of Art, earning a certificate in 1887 and a bachelor's in fine arts in 1891.[3][4]
Career after Yale
[edit]Lewis spent the five years after her graduation studying Impressionist art in Paris and Giverny, along with her sister Matilda. She was one of a number of art students who made a pilgrimage to Giverny, France to be in the presence of Claude Monet, staying at the Baudy hotel near Monet
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Josephine Lewis (abt. 1873)
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Daughter of George Washington Lewis and Celia (Saulters) Lewis
Sister of Edward W Lewis, Mary Lewis, Cephus Lewis, Alonzo Lewis, Elizabeth Lewis, Vallela Lewis and Bessie Lewis
[spouse(s) unknown]
[children unknown]
Died [date unknown] [location unknown]
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Biography
Josephine Lewis is a part of US Black heritage.
Josephine was born about 1873. [1]She is the daughter of George Lewis and Celia Saulters.
Sources
- ↑1880 United States Federal Census, Caddo, Louisiana; Roll: 449; Page: 250B; Enumeration District: 016; Ancestry.com
- Jarrett, Denise. Durden Family Heritage: Descendants of Moore Durden, 2018. Volume 3.1, pp 375.
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