Helen Searle

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Helen Searle
Born 1834
Burlington, Vermont
Died November 1884
Jacksonville, Illinois
Nationality Americaan
Known for still life painting
Spouse(s) James William Pattison

Helen Searle (1834[1] - November 1884) was an American painter of still lifes.

Life

Searle was the daughter of the architect Henry Searle. She was born in Burlington, Vermont, and grew up from the age of ten in Rochester, New York. She started painting still lifes of flowers and fruit early in life; in 1863 she exhibited some at the "Babies' Hospital Relief Bazar" and the following year at the Buffalo Fine Arts Academy. She taught painting and drawing at Mrs. Bryan's Female Seminary in Batavia. In 1866 she had her first show, at the National Academy of Design in New York.

Still Life with Fruit and Champagne, 1869

From 1867 to 1871, based on the reputation of the Düsseldorf school, she studied privately with Johann Wilhelm Preyer. There are contemporary reports that she was able to almost equal his mastery.[2] Her shows during this time, for example at the Düsseldorf art dealers Bismeyer & Kraus in March 1870, were highly praised in the press.

In 1872, Searle returned to the US and established a studio in Washington, D.C. In Düsseldorf, she had met a widowed American painter, James William Pattison (1844–1915); in 1876 they married. For a while they lived in the artists' colony at Écouen, north of Paris. He exhibited in the Paris Salons of 1879, 1880 and 1881;[3] in the 1879 Salon she showed a still life of fruit under her maiden name. Beginning in 1882 the couple spent time in Chicago and New York, before moving to Jacksonville, Illinois, where James Pattison had been appointed head of the School of Fine Arts at the Jacksonville Female Academy. Helen Pattison-Searle died in Jacksonville that November.

Helen Pattison Searle was an established still-life painter and had major commissions and exhibitions in Germany, the Paris Salons, as well as the National Academy of Design in New York. Most of her paintings are now in private hands, but some are in publicly viewable collections such as the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Worcester Art Museum in Worcester, Massachusetts.

Selected works

References

  1. ↑ Some sources give her year of birth as 1830.
  2. ↑ Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf and Galerie Paffrath, Lexikon Der Düsseldorfer Malerschule 1819–1918, 3 vols., Volume 3, Munich: Bruckmann, 1998, ISBN 3-7654-3011-0, p. 268 (German)
  3. ↑ "James William Pattison (1844–1915)", M. Christine Schwartz Collection, 2011, retrieved 29 July 2016.
  4. ↑ "Helen R. Searle (American, 1830–1884)", Princeton University Art Museum, retrieved 29 July 2016.
  5. ↑ Howard Kaplan, "Helen R. Searle, Früchtestillleben mit Kürbis", Van Ham artist data bank, retrieved 29 July 2016 (German).
  6. ↑ "Still Life with Fuit and Pumpkin", Eye Level, Smithsonian American Art Museum, 9 May 2008, retrieved 29 July 2016.
  7. ↑ "Still life with fruit, wine, & fly", Digital Collections and Repositories, University of Cincinnati Libraries, retrieved 29 July 2016.
  8. ↑ "Still Life with Fruit", The Athenaeum, retrieved 29 July 2016.
  9. ↑ "Searle, Helen - Früchtestilleben mit Römer, 1873", Stiftung Sammlung Vollmer, retrieved 29 July 2016 (German).
  10. ↑ "Peonies", The Athenaeum, retrieved 29 July 2016.
  11. ↑ "Carnations and Poppies", The Athenaeum, retrieved 29 July 2016.

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