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About Alice B. Stephens
Born in Salem, New Jersey, Alice Barber Stephens is noted for numerous engravings, quite often of social events, that appeared in magazines such as "Scribner's Monthly" and "Harper's Weekly."
She showed such early art talent that her parents allowed her to miss one day of school to take formal study at the Philadelphia School of Design for Women. In 1876 she enrolled at the Pennsylvania School of Fine Arts in the first class that admitted women, which was taught by Thomas Eakins. She was part of the group of women who petitioned for nude drawing classes for women and also was a founder of the Plastic Club in Philadelphia to fight prejudice against women artists.
She supported herself as an engraver and illustrator and spent most of the year in 1887 in Europe studying in museums. She enrolled in the Paris at the Academie Julian where she studied with Filippo Colarrossi. Returning to the United States, she married artist, Charles Stephens, and they had one son. |
Paintings by Alice B. Stephens
| A Spring Morning in the Park |
| oil on canvas: 18 x 26 inches |
| signed: lower right |
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