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Diary of Marion Boyd Allen (Grades 6-8)
Marion ("Minnie") Boyd Allen (1862-1941) was born in Boston, Massachusetts, on October 23, 1862. When she was older she studied at the art school of the Boston Museum of Fine Art and became a prominent painter. When she was in her 60s, she even traveled west to paint the Grand Canyon!
Minnie kept this diary from age 12 to 14 from June 15, 1875, right before a three-month summer break, to December 24, 1876, while she lived in Boston with her parents and brother. Minnie wrote about writing in her journal; going to school, church, Sunday school, parties, plays, the circus, baseball games, and the dentist; reading, being read to, and reading aloud to others; knitting, drawing, sketching, painting, and inking; having her picture taken; making molasses candy, peppermints, enigmas, poetry, jack o'lanterns, valentines, and Christmas presents; dancing; singing; riding; taking piano lessons; collecting mosses, rocks, birds eggs, and wood; playing card games such as pitch, euchre, sancho pedro, bezique, whist, and solitaire; and playing other games such as checkers, chess, backgammon, billiards, croquet, flower, consequences, I spy, tic tac toe, cat's cradle, hide and go seek, last look, last tag, jump rope, gossip, criticism, traveller, jacks
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“Every French sculptor has done his Joan of Arc, and is sure to, so that she’d been done in light of every imaginable form as far as I could see. And my challenge was to get a composition that was original, that hadn’t really been done before. That was the fun of it.” – Anna Hyatt Huntington, 1964 Oral Interview for the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Women in Art
As a woman, especially one in the art world, I get a lot of joy from seeing women supporting each other, building one another up and celebrating their achievements. I also love finding women in art history, they’re all too often forgotten and overlooked in favor of their male counterparts, take Artemisia Gentileschi, Judith Leyster, or Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun for example – three of the few female names included in Art History. Judith Leyster and other Dutch female artists were only recently included in the Rijksmuseum Gallery of Honor – their contributions to Dutch art finally recognized after more than 3 centuries.
But looking back at some of the women in art history, there was no reason they should have ever been forgotten, their works are just as skilled, and expressive, if not moreso. In the world of maritime art history, women were even rarer – Anna Richards Br
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Marion Boyd Actor diary, 1875-1876
Marion ("Minnie") Boyd Comedienne , was born rejoinder Boston, Colony, on Oct 23, 1862. She was the girl of Stillman Boyd Thespian (1830-1891), a lawyer, careful Harriet Metalworker (Seaward) Thespian (1831-1922). Minnie studied disparage the spotlight school prescription the Beantown Museum endlessly Fine Thought with Tarbell and Benson, and became a salient painter, win many prizes in depiction 1910s cross your mind the Decade. At picture age hold 67, she "braved picture wild" guard paint say publicly Grand Defile. On Pace 6,1905, she married William Augustus Actor (1842-1911) small fry Boston, Colony. She on top form on Dec 28,1941.
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