Sarah Gooll Putnam

Sarah Gooll Putnam
Born 1851 (1851)
Boston, Massachusetts
Died 1912 (aged 60–61)
Chocorua, New Hampshire
Nationality American
Known for Painting

Sarah Gooll Putnam (1851-1912) was an American painter. From a prominent Boston family, she was known for her portraits and landscapes.

Biography

Putnam was born in 1851 in Boston, Massachusetts.[1] As a young woman she studied with Helen M. Knowlton, Louisa Crowninshield Bacon, and George Chickering Munzig before enrolling in the first class of students at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in 1877.[2]

Putnam received her first portrait commission in 1883 and went on to have several one-woman shows, and was included in group shows at the St. Botolph Club[3][2],the Boston Art Club[1] and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston[2].

Putnam exhibited her work at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois.[4]

Putnam never married[2] and she died in 1912 in Chocorua, New Hampshire.[5]

Legacy

Putnam's diaries from 1860-1912 are in the Massachusetts Historical Society.[3] Several of her portraits are in Harvard Art Museums.[5]

References

  1. 1 2 "Sarah Putnam". AskArt. Retrieved 22 September 2018.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Pipkin, Erin L. (2001). ""Striking in Its Promise": The Artistic Career of Sarah Gooll Putnam". Massachusetts Historical Review. 3: 89–115.
  3. 1 2 "Sarah Gooll Putnam Diaries, 1860-1912". Massachusetts Historical Society. Retrieved 22 September 2018.
  4. ↑ Nichols, K. L. "Women's Art at the World's Columbian Fair & Exposition, Chicago 1893". Retrieved 22 September 2018.
  5. 1 2 "Sarah Gooll Putnam". Harvard Art Museums. Retrieved 22 September 2018.
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