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About Sarah M. Barstow
S.M. Barstow, identified as both Sarah and Salome Barstow (dates unknown), was a prolific New York woman painter, active in the last half of the nineteenth century. She showed her landscapes early on at the National Academy of Design (1861-91) and in the Pennsylvania Academy annuals (1867-69) but apparently she was centered in Brooklyn where she exhibited at the Brooklyn Art Association between 1877 and 1886. Between 1858 and 1891 Barstow gave her address (182 Washington Street) in Brooklyn. In her earliest period she exhibited both still-life and landscape paintings, then she turned almost exclusively to landscape, seeking out mountainous regions in the Northeast, such as the Catskills, the Adirondacks, and the White Mountains. Trips to Europe are indicated: Switzerland in 1865 and 1878, Germany, Holland and Belgium in 1881, and France in 1885. Jean Lipman and Alice Winchester (Primitive Painters in America 1750-1950) listed Salome Barstow as a still-life painter on velvet, yet this painter was active in Massachusetts around 1820, which does not fit the landscape painter located in Brooklyn.
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Paintings by Sarh M. Barstow
| Mountain scene with Breaking Sunlight |
| oil on canvas:18 x 24 inches |
| signed & dated 1879: lower right |
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