Elsie Dodge Pattee

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Elsie Dodge Pattee Auger
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Miniature portrait by Elsie Dodge Pattee
Born
Elsie Dodge

(1876-09-04)September 4, 1876 [1]
Chelsea, MA
Died1975 (aged 9798) [2]
Old Lyme, CT

Elsie Dodge Pattee Auger (1876–1975) was an American miniature painter.

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Early life

She was the daughter of David L. Dodge and Emma H. Dodge; her parents were wealthy from their business in dry goods. [3] In her youth she studied in London and Dresden. [3] While in London, she married Elmer Ellsworth Pattee in 1900. She studied at the Académie Julian in Paris. [3] She stayed in France for twenty years, returning to the United States in 1912. [4] Her first husband Elmer Ellsworth Pattee died in 1925 in France, while Pattee was in New York. [3] Her second husband was Charles E. Auger. [4]

Art career

Dodge was a member of the American Society of Miniature Painters. She illustrated children's books, including Christmas, The Animal Book by William Allen Butler. [2] In 1915 she received a medal at the Panama-Pacific Exposition.

Her work is included in the collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, [2] the Metropolitan Museum of Art, [5] the Brooklyn Museum, [6] and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. [7]

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References

  1. "Pattee, Elsie Dodge". Benezit Dictionary of Artists. 2011. doi:10.1093/benz/9780199773787.article.B00136986. ISBN   978-0-19-977378-7.
  2. 1 2 3 "Elsie Dodge Pattee | Smithsonian American Art Museum". americanart.si.edu.
  3. 1 2 3 4 Barratt, Carrie Rebora; Zabar, Lori (2010). American Portrait Miniatures in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Metropolitan Museum of Art. ISBN   978-1-58839-357-9.
  4. 1 2 "(Memorial) Elsie Dodge Pattee Auger". archive.org/. 1975.
  5. "The Black Fan". www.metmuseum.org.
  6. "Brooklyn Museum". www.brooklynmuseum.org.
  7. "Philadelphia Museum of Art - Collections Object : Portrait of Lillian". www.philamuseum.org.