Marie H. Guise Newcomb

Marie H. Guise Newcomb (1865–1895) was an American painter. She is known for her paintings of animals.

Marie H. Guise Newcomb
Born
Marie H. Guise

1865 (1865)
Newark, New Jersey
DiedJune 23, 1895(1895-06-23) (aged 29–30)
New York, New York
NationalityAmerican
Known forPainting
Spouse(s)
Edward W. Newcomb (m. 1890)

Biography

Newcomb née Guise was born in 1865 in Newark, New Jersey.[1] She studied painting in Paris where she was taught by August Friedrich Schenck, Luigi Chialiva, and Édouard Detaille. She traveled in Algeria and the Sahara to study the anatomy of horses.[2]

She was a member of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and specialized in depicting animals.[1] She exhibited at the Paris Salon, the National Academy of Design, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and the Art Institute of Chicago.[3]

In 1890 she married the photographer Edward W. Newcomb.[4][1]

Newcomb exhibited her work at the Palace of Fine Arts and The Woman's Building at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois.[5]

Guise died of heart failure on June 23, 1895[6] in New York City[1] at the age of thirty.[5]

  • Greyhound in Profile (xmas), nd
  • An Observant Friend at Rest, nd
  • Portrait of a Horse, 1885

References
  1. "Marie H Guise Newcomb". AskArt. Retrieved 18 September 2018.
  2. Clement, Clara Erskine (1904). Women in the fine arts, from the Seventh Century B.C. to the Twentieth Century A.D. ISBN 0554334119.
  3. "Marie H. Guise Newcomb". Questroyal. Retrieved 18 September 2018.
  4. "The Photo-American". Loeber. March 1904.
  5. Nichols, K. L. "Women's Art at the World's Columbian Fair & Exposition, Chicago 1893". Retrieved 18 September 2018.
  6. Obituary. The American Amateur Photographer, Volume 6. p. 432.
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