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Caroline Amelia Powell (1852–1935) was an Irish-born American engraver and illustrator. She was the first woman to become a member of the Society of American Wood Engravers.
Caroline Amelia Powell | |
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Born | 1852 Dublin, Ireland |
Died | 1935 (aged 82–83) Boston, Massachusetts |
Nationality | American |
Known for | Illustration, Printmaking |
Powell was born in 1852 in Dublin, Ireland.[1] She studied at Cooper Union and the National Academy of Design, both located in New York City.[2] Her teachers included the engravers William James Linton and Timothy Cole.[3]
Around 1880 Powell's work began appearing in magazines such as The Century Magazine and Scribner's Monthly.[4]
Powell exhibited her work in the Woman's Building at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois.[3] She also exhibited at the 1901 Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York.[4]
Powell's wood engravings reproduced art work by her contemporaries including Fritz von Uhde, Abbott H. Thayer, John La Farge, and James Abbott McNeill Whistler.[4] She became the first woman admitted to the Society of American Wood Engravers.[3] As the art of wood engraving fell from use, Powell worked using the halftone process. She worked for 18 years at the Riverside Press, now Riverside Publishing in Cambridge.[4]
Powell died in 1935 in Boston, Massachusetts.[2]
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