Sunflowers, c. 1915-1930
Agnes Harrison Lincolnexpand_more
Pastel on paperexpand_more
Gift of Julia Meech in memory of Nanette Harrison Meechexpand_more 2017.155
Not on Viewexpand_more
Agnes Harrison was born in Minnesota, the daughter of an English-born architect, who designed many of the flourmills of the small, prospering city of Minneapolis. Disinterested in the busy social calendar of her family’s circle in Minneapolis, Harrison moved to Boston in the late 1880s to enroll at the Museum School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. She studied painting under J. Alden Weir. In 1906, she married Henry Ware Lincoln. In 1908 after her only child, John Ware Lincoln, was born, Lincoln returned to Minneapolis a single mother, either widowed or divorced. She moved in with her parents and began one of her most productive phases of painting and drawing. She specialized in flower pastels and participated in a number of early exhibitions at the newly opened Minneapolis Institute of Arts. In 1917 she exhibited eight flower pastels at the museum (possibly including Sunflowers), and in 1929, in an exhibition at the museum featuring works by Twin Cities artists, she was award first prize in painting and honorable mention in drawing. She spent the later part of her career in Connecticut and Kenosha Wisconsin.
Details
- Title
- Sunflowers
- Artist Life
- 1870–1954
- Role
- Artist
- Accession Number
- 2017.155
- Provenance
- The artist ('until d. 1954); her niece, Nanette Harrison Meech, Minneapolis and Santa Fe (until d. 1993); her daughter, Julia Meech, New York (1993-2017); given to MIA, 2017.
- Curator Approved
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