Sarah Anne Freeman Clarke

Sarah Anne Freeman Clarke (1808-1896) was an American painter with a connection to the Boston Transcendentalist Movement.

Sarah Anne Freeman Clarke
Born1808 (1808)
Died1896 (aged 87–88)
NationalityAmerican
Known forPainting

Biography
Kentucky Beech Forest c. 1839

Clarke was born in Massachusetts[1] in 1808.[2] Her brother was the Unitarian minister James Freeman Clarke.[3] She was involved in the Transcendentalist Movement.[1]

In 1843 Clarke traveled with her brother James and mutual friend Margaret Fuller to the area of the Great Lakes and the territories of Wisconsin and Illinois. Fuller wrote and Clarke illustrated the journey in the book Summer on the Lakes in 1843.[3][4]

Clarke exhibited her work at the Woman's Building at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois.[1]

She died in 1896.[5]

References
  1. Nichols, K. L. "Women's Art at the World's Columbian Fair & Exposition, Chicago 1893". Retrieved 27 December 2018.
  2. "Kentucky Beech Forest". Boston Athenæum. Retrieved 27 December 2018.
  3. "Sarah Freeman Clarke, Margaret Fuller & "Summer on the Lakes in 1843" - Events at the Cape Ann Museum". Cape Ann Museum. Retrieved 27 December 2018.
  4. Fuller, Margaret; Clarke, Sarah (1991). "Summer on the lakes, in 1843". WorldCat. University of Illinois Press. Retrieved 27 December 2018.
  5. "Sarah Anne Freeman Clarke (American, 1808-1896). Great Smoky Mountains (At Waynesville, in North Carolina Mountains)". Heritage Auctions. Retrieved 27 December 2018.
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