Lucy May Stanton
Lucy May Stanton, born in Atlanta, Georgia, was one of the better-known woman artists of her day. Her decade in Boston, during which time she painted this portrait, was important to her career. A center of the American miniature revival, it offered many opportunities for woman artists. Stanton also spent considerable time in Athens, Georgia, where she lived, died, and is buried.
Athenian Betty Alice Fowler wrote in an exhibition catalogue on her work, “Lucy Stanton was not a lady on a pedestal, and she forged an independent life as a southern woman and an artist, two sometimes contradictory roles. She smoked cigarettes, drove her own car, and cooked for company in an evening dress.” The American press called her “the Fragonard of the New World.” Best known as a portraitist, she painted her own family frequently, as here with Elizabeth Peyton Stanton.
We present today's work thanks to the Georgia Museum of Art.
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P.P.S. Here is another liberated woman artist who was ahead of her time! Meet Tamara de Lempicka here! :)
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