Abigail Tyler Oakes
Abigail Tyler Oakes | |
|---|---|
| Born | Abigail Tyler 1823 Charlestown, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Died | c. 1898 |
| Known for | Landscape painting |
| Movement | Hudson River School |
| Spouse | William Harrison Oakes |
Abigail Tyler Oakes (1823 – c. 1898) was an American landscape painter.[1][2][3] She is associated with the Hudson River School of painting[4] and has been described as one of the first professional female artists in California.[5][1][2]
Life and career
Oakes was born in 1823 in Charlestown, Massachusetts.[5][2] In 1845 she married William Harrison Oakes, a Boston music engraver and newspaper printer.[3][2]
Oakes spent several years in San Francisco in the 1850s, where she was active as a painter and exhibited at the Mechanics' Institute in 1857.[3][1][2] The National Museum of Women in the Arts states that she lived mostly in New York City, spent several years in San Francisco, and is considered one of California's first professional women artists.[5]
Work
Oakes is best known for landscape paintings. Her works include Hudson River Landscape (1852) and View of the Connecticut River Valley (1854), both oil paintings in the collection of the National Museum of Women in the Arts.[6][5] Her known subjects included Hudson River scenes, Yosemite, Mission Dolores, and other California landscapes.[1][2]
References
- 1 2 3 4 Kovinick, Phil; Yoshiki-Kovinick, Marian (1998). An Encyclopedia of Women Artists of the American West. Austin: University of Texas Press. p. 234.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 Sonstegard, Viki (24 April 2018). "Abby Tyler Oakes: One of the First!". Art on the Left Coast. Retrieved 15 May 2026.
- 1 2 3 "Abby (Abigail) Tyler Oakes Biography". askART. Retrieved 14 May 2026.
- ↑ Piggott, Susan (2023). Unknown Lands: A feminist intervention in the history of Western landscape art, using feminist theoretical analysis to explore women’s erasure from the canon of landscape art from the seventeenth century to the early twentieth century (PhD thesis). University of Newcastle. Retrieved 14 May 2026.
- 1 2 3 4 "Gallery Labels: Remix Third Floor". National Museum of Women in the Arts. Retrieved 14 May 2026.
- ↑ Gregory, Alicia (21 September 2023). "Handle with Care: Interview with a Conservator". National Museum of Women in the Arts. Retrieved 14 May 2026.