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Jeannette Scott (1864–1937)[1] was a Canadian-born American painter. She became the head of the painting department at Syracuse University.
Scott was born in 1864 in Kincardine, Canada West.[2] Upon the death of her father, when she was twenty-one,[3] she moved to the United States where she studied at the Philadelphia School of Design for Women, there her professors included Emily Sartain.[4] She also studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.[2]
From 1889 to 1894, Scott studied in Paris at the Académie Julian and the Académie Colarossi.[4][3] Her teachers in Paris included Joseph Blanc, Gustave-Claude-Etienne Courtois, and Alphonse Mucha.[4]
Scott exhibited her work at the Palace of Fine Arts at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois.[5] Scott also exhibited her art the Boston Art Club and the National Academy of Design in New York. Scott was a member of the American Federation of Arts.[2] She also worked with the Inter-American Commission of Women.[4]
In 1895, Scott became a professor of painting in the College of Fine Arts at Syracuse University. In 1902 she became head of the painting department, teaching there until 1927, when she retired.[4]
Scott died in 1937 in Skaneateles, New York.[2]
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