Virginia Granbery (1831–1921) was an American painter.
Virginia Granbery | |
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| Born | 1831 |
| Died | 1921 |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | Packer Collegiate Institute Cooper Union National Academy of Design |
| Occupation | painter |
Granbery and her elder sister, Henrietta, were natives of Norfolk, Virginia, but their family moved north when they were young, settling in New York City.[1] Their uncle was the painter George Granbery.[2] They studied painting in New York City while they taught in Brooklyn;[3] Virginia studied at the Packer Collegiate Institute. She later had lessons at the Cooper Union with Albert Fitch Bellows and at the National Academy of Design.[4] The sisters lived together in Manhattan,[5] and continued to teach painting privately; among their pupils was Annie Cooper Boyd.[6]
Virginia Granbery was especially known for her fruit paintings, the majority of which have been lost; in her day, more of hers were reproduced by Louis Prang as lithographs than were those of any other artist. She also painted portraits, landscapes, and animals.[4] She taught at the Packer Institute for some time, where the art department more than doubled under her direction,[7] and may have left New York City after 1890.
She exhibited work at the National Academy of Design from 1859 to 1890; the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts from 1860 to 1889; and the Brooklyn Art Association from 1861 to 1886,[4] and with her sister showed work at the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia in 1876.[7]
References
edit- ^ "Biographies in Norfolk County Virginia". Retrieved 9 January 2017.
- ^ Raleigh Lewis Wright (1983). Artists in Virginia before 1900: an annotated checklist. University Press of Virginia. ISBN 978-0-8139-0998-1.
- ^ Eleanor Tufts; National Museum of Women in the Arts (U.S.); International Exhibitions Foundation (1987). American women artists, 1830–1930. International Exhibitions Foundation for the National Museum of Women in the Arts. ISBN 978-0-940979-01-7.
- ^ a b c "Virginia Granbery (1831–1921) – White Mountain Art & Artists". Retrieved 9 January 2017.
- ^ exhibit-E.com. "Gerald Peters Gallery". Retrieved 9 January 2017.
- ^ Gallagher, Gail (3 April 2015). "Painting the Hamptons: Annie Cooper Boyd, Artistic Influences". Retrieved 9 January 2017.
- ^ a b Frances Elizabeth Willard (1893). A Woman of the Century: Fourteen Hundred-seventy Biographical Sketches Accompanied by Portraits of Leading American Women in All Walks of Life. Moulton. pp. 332–.