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Grace Woodbridge Geer

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Grace Woodbridge Geer
Born1854 (1854)
Boston, Massachusetts
DiedJune 27, 1939(1939-06-27) (aged 84–85)
Boston, Massachusetts
NationalityAmerican
Known forPainting
Summer Pastime

Grace Woodbridge Geer (1854-1938) was an American painter.[1]

Biography

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Geer was born in 1854 in Boston, Massachusetts.[2] She studied at the Massachusetts Normal Art School and the Lowell Institute She also received instruction from Edmund C. Tarbell, Frank Hector Tompkins, Samuel Triscott, and Robert Vonnoh.[3]

She was a member of the Copley Society of Art, the American Society of Miniature Painters,[3] the Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants, and the Professional Women's Club of Boston. Her miniatures were exhibited at the Copley Society, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the National Academy of Design, and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.[4]

Geer died on June 27, 1938, in Boston.[4]

References

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  1. ^ "Geer, Grace Woodbridge, 1854-1938, painter". SIRIS - Smithsonian Institution Research Information System. Retrieved 18 July 2020.
  2. ^ "Geer, Grace Woodbridge". Benezit Dictionary of Artists. 2011. doi:10.1093/benz/9780199773787.article.B00071911. Retrieved 18 July 2020.
  3. ^ a b "Grace Geer". AskArt. Retrieved 18 July 2020.
  4. ^ a b "Miss Grace W. Geer, Boston Artist, 83; Portrait and Landscape Painter Was Mayflower Descendant". The New York Times. 28 June 1938. Retrieved 18 July 2020.
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