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Sarah Eileen Hanley | |
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Born | Sligo, Ireland | December 7, 1883
Died | February 11, 1958 Laurel Hollow, New York | (aged 74)
Sarah Eileen Hanley (1883 – 1958) was a painter. She is known for her friendshp with Louis Comfort Tiffany as well as her involvement with the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation.
Biography
[edit]Born on December 7, 1883 in Sligo, Ireland, Hanley emigrated to the United States in 1905. She lived in New York and became a nurse.
Hanley met the artist Louis Comfort Tiffany in 1910 when she was hired as a caregiver to Tiffany who was recovering from a kidney infection. The two formed a friendship that lasted the rest of Tiffany's life. She lived Tiffany from 1910 to 1933. Tiffany boilt her a house adjacent to his home, Laurelton Hall. When the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation was established in 1918, Hanley served as its first director.[1]
In the early 1930s Hanley exhibited her paintings and watercolors at the Anderson Galleries in New York City. Hanley inherited her house and a monetary share of Tiffany's estate upon his death in 1933. She exhibited sporadically through the 1930s ans 1940s.[1]
Hanley was a member of National Association of Women Artists. In 1946 she became a life fellow of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.[2]
Hanley died on February 11, 1958 in Laurel Hollow, New York[1] She left her estate, including several pieces by Tiffany, to the Dominican Sisters of St. Mary's of the Springs (now Dominican Sisters of Peace) in Columbus, Ohio.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c Parker, Michael P. "Hanley, Sarah Eileen". American National Biography. doi:10.1093/anb/9780198606697.article.1701373. Retrieved 12 September 2024.
- ^ "Miss Sarah E. Hanley". The New York Times. 13 February 1958. Retrieved 12 September 2024.
- ^ "Lot 72: Louis Comfort Tiffany American, 1848-1933 Sarah at the Florida Shore". Invaluable, LLC. Retrieved 13 September 2024.
Further reading
[edit]- A Storied Desk Forbes article Oct 1, 2007
- https://www.guggenheim-bilbao.eus/en/exhibitions/women-in-abstraction
- https://www.centrepompidou.fr/fr/videos/video/elles-font-labstraction-visite-dexposition
- https://awarewomenartists.com/en/nos_evenements/appel-a-communication-elles-font-labstraction-une-autre-histoire-de-labstraction-au-xxe-siecle/
- https://mediumisticart.com/exhibitions-and-events/elles-font-labstraction/
- https://www.parisupdate.com/women-in-abstraction/
- https://www.studiointernational.com/women-in-abstraction-review-guggenheim-museum-bilbao
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elles_font_l%27abstraction